Sports and recreational facilities add to an eventful stay - the usual ground and water sports, terraces with live music, rich gastronomic offer, organized excursions, sightseeing. Tourists can choose to stay in a hotel, pension, campsite, apartments or rooms. Today Novigrad can provide accommodation for up to 10,000 visitors a day. A sudden expansion of tourism in Novigrad began in the 1960s, when companies from Slovenia started to build numerous holiday centres on the Karpinjan peninsula, and then the company Plava Laguna from Porec made large-scale investments. Between the two world wars tourists were offered accommodation in the boarding-houses Citta di Trieste and Trovatore. Parallelly the public beach was constructed. The beginnings of tourist trade in Novigrad go as far back as the end of the 19th century, and in 1896 the hotels Al Lido and Al Porto were already open. ![]() The coast is well-indented, with rocky and pebble beaches. ![]() Novigrad is a tourist centre of the riviera expanding from Dajla in the north to the estuary of the river Mirna in the south. Fishing grounds in the coastal zone of Novigrad expand from the harbour of Dalja in the north to the harbour of Mirna in the southeast. Chief occupations are farming and fishing. The forested surroundings and well-indented coast are a special attraction. The anchorage ground is 200 m northeast of the pier at a depth of 3 to 4 m. The little port in the south-eastern part of the port can accommodate yachts only. A breakwater protects the port from the southwest, along which, on the inner side, smaller vessels with the draught of 3.5 m can anchor. The port is protected from all winds, except the westerly and north-westerly winds which raise waves. The position provides favourable shelter due to which the location was inhabited in the early times. Situated on a small limestone peninsula comprising the south-western top of the Bujstina region and, in the north, the entrance into the vast bay of the harbour of Mirna. Novigrad is a town and port at the western coast of Istria 15 km southwest of Buje population 2,552. ![]()
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