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ARTICLES RELATED TO Pula - Tourism | | | |  Pula - Tourism: Encyclopedia II - Pula - TourismThe natural beauty of Pula's surrounding countryside and turquoise blue water of the Adriatic have made the city an internationally popular summer vacation destination. The pearl nearby is Brijuni national park visited by numerous world leaders since it was the summer residence of the late statesman Josip Broz. Roman villas and temples still lie buried among farm fields and along the shoreline of the dozens of surrounding fishing and farming villages. The coastal waters offer beaches, fishing, wreck dives to ancient Roman galleys and World War I warships, cliff diving, and sailing to unspoiled co ...
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| | | | Pula - Tourism: Encyclopedia II - Pula - History The city's earliest recorded permanent habitation dates back to the 10th century BC. It was founded by the Illyrian tribe of the Histri, an ancient population that lived in Istria.
Significant Roman settlement (Colonia Pietas Iulia Pola) began in the first century BC. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the city was ruled by Ostrogoths, Franks, and the Venetians, as each succeeded the other in ruling the region. The first arrival of the Slavs in the environs of the town dates to the 7th century. The history of the city continued to reflect its location and significance, like that of the region, in the redrawing of ...
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| | | | Pula - Tourism: Encyclopedia II - Pula - Culture As a result of its rich political history, Pula is a city with a cultural mix of people and languages from the Mediterranean and Central Europe, ancient and contemporary. Pula's architecture reflects these layers of history. Residents are commonly fluent in foreign languages, especially Italian, often also German and English. In 1904 and 1905 Irish writer James Joyce lived, worked and wrote here. The opera composer Antonio Smareglia was born here, and returned to live here.
The physician Robert Koch worked on the nearby Brijuni islands.
Among the "polesani" (italians natives of the city), Sergio Endrigo, one of most famo ...
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