FAŽANA IN ROMAN TIMES
Fažana was due to its geographical position, close to the sea and the fertile fields with the Mediterranean culture, an important economic center of Roman civilization, which was in antiquity the governing political center of the Roman colony of Pula.
Fažana was due to its geographical position, close to the sea and the fertile fields with the Mediterranean culture, an important economic center of Roman civilization, which was in antiquity the governing political center of the Roman colony of Pula.
Fažana was due to its geographical position, close to the sea and the fertile fields with the Mediterranean culture, an important economic center of Roman civilization, which was in antiquity the governing political center of the Roman colony of Pula (Pola). Area of Fažana encompasses the south bay Runci, Peroj coast to the north, and in the hinterland of fertile land with olive groves and vineyards. Particularly in the context of the production of olive oil, Fažana has a special place on the Istrian coast during the Roman domination. Close to the sea (hence the possibility of fishing) and protected the Roman harbor where they could fit a Roman merchant ships is an ideal place to live, work and rest. The area of Fažana as the whole of Istria came under Roman rule in 177th before Christ., when the Romans conquered the capital city Histrian Nesactium - Vizace, but only since the mid-1st century before Christ began intensive colonization and Romanization of the Istrian peninsula.
