PULA - CITY OF ROMANS AND GLADIATOR FIGHTS

City of Pula has more than 3000 years and was built on the hill Kaštel where the castle was first created hillforth, fort Histri.Besides the two circular main street of prehistoric ruins, nothing left.::

The rights of the city's history begins with the Romans. The official name of the city was Colonia Pietas Iulia Pola, and had all the functions and structures typical of the Roman settlement of immigrants. The most famous and important monument, the starting and ending point of every sightseeing - Puljska Arena - buildings in which the gladiator fights. It was built in the first century AD during the reign of Emperor Vespasian, at the same time the greatest and most famous buildings of its kind - the Colosseum in Rome. In addition to the legend of the giants, are frequent in Istria and those of fairies. Villas are tied to good works, but occasionally became the builders of some of those so special Istrian buildings. It's no wonder that there is a legend about fairies and construction arena in Pula. Legend has it that in a single night fairies decided to build his own city, Divić town, and they, when the dark until dawn, carried stones from Učka and diligently get along row after row of stones. And slowly he sprang Arena. Just before dawn, it was necessary to make the roof of the arena, but they broke up a cock. The moment zakukurikao, fairies have escaped that people do not see and so is the arena was left without a roof. The ones that are in that moment carried stones from Učka dropped the stones so throughout Istria remained scattered stones.