Umag

Umag is located in a narrow small peninsula with the small bay. It is an attractive vacation but also cultural place far away from the economic activities and loud traffic connections. It is the unique place providing the vacation, fun and cultural insights.
Umag or Italian Umago ranks within its 4,900 inhabitants among the typical littoral Croatian towns. The main economy branches and income sources of the home people are the vine cultivation and olive growing, tourism and agro tourism. Holiday makers estimated Umag among all other places because provides various camp sites, hotels, resorts, sport and leisure facilities and gastronomical offer. Umag is also abroad famous for the native Malvazija vine. Despite the fact that during the winter are mostly settled older inhabitants, during the summer the town enlivens and is one of the most famous tourist Istrian centers. Umag is also well known for the international tennis tournaments ATP Croatian open which are every year held in Umag and attract numerous visitors and sportsman from all over the world. Besides the tournaments held, Umag offers great number of amusement and crazy fun.

Here is Umag located

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How to get to Umag

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• Umag is easily reachable with the bus. The bus station is approx. 1 km far away from the beach in the center of the city.
• The connection with Porec (approx. 10 times daily) is also easily reachable if you go by bus.
• It is only 40 kilometers distanced from the Trieste, 150 km from Ljubljana, the capital city of Slovenia and 50 NM from Venice, which leads to the conclusion that Umag is reachable from any direction and with various transportations.

City map of Umag

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Picture gallery for Umag

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  Belfry Umag

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  Umag in the evening

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  Umag panorama

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Insight into history of Umag

Umag was mentioned in the 7th century for the first time, by the anonymous citizen from Ravenna. It had already existed in Roman time which remains and evidences testify the foundations. Umag still preserves the old antique and older remains like villa Rusticae built by the Romans along the Istrian coast. That period was substituted by several problems like outbreaks of plague, cholera, and malaria which slowed his progress.

After Romans, Umag was under Byzantine governance and the Francs rule. It was the unpleasant time for Umag but because of the powerful Venetian Republic influence, that period changed. In the year 1269, the community of Umag gave its loyalty to the Venice which became the governor of Umag. This period was a peaceful one.

In the year 1370, the Genovese attacked Umag and destroyed the town™s archive. During the Venetian rule, Umag™s economy was exclusively based on the agriculture, but when the Venetian governance collapsed, the entire eastern Adriatic coast came under the rule of Francs until the year 1815, when Austria in the year 1918, Austria conquered the area. By the end of the 19th century Umag became the part of Italy and soon after the crisis in Trieste, came under the governance of Yugoslavian Army, and became the part of Croatia late in the year 1954.

Since that time and till now it is the Croatian town which has in the year 1997 received the status of town.

What to see in Umag

Visit the St. Mary church which has the beautiful wooden poliptych from the 15th century.

Old town part of Umag has numerous old historical a cultural places, buildings and preserved places which are testifying the history as once was. Besides it has the extremely interesting natural geographical position. Umag is enclosed by the sea because it lays on the peninsula which is actually the old town it self and also the center of the town. The sea promenade lies just before the old town, in the place from where the coast is connected to the tourist resort Sol Polynesia. The center of the town stretches around the Liberty Piazza (Trg Slobode).

In the old town is placed the parish church of the Assumption of Virgin Mary and St. Peregrine, the patron of the city Umag. The liberation cover of the Pelegrine is from the 14th century and is engraved into the walls of the Church. It is the patron of the city and is celebrated on 23rd May.

In the facade of the house in Epifanio Street 3, is settled an immured free Christian sarcophagus from the 5th century.

At the entrance of the historical core, there is the church of St. Roche, built after the plague epidemics in the year 1507. In the interior of that church, is remarkable wooden ceiling oil painted from 18th century.

In Umag you can see the remain of the defense tower, which is actually the town Museum which was one of the defense towers with the battlements in the shape of ˜a swallow™s tale, which can be seen from the sea.

Places of excursions near Umag

In the vicinity of Umag is the hotel Sol Koralj which is placed in the ‘Squirrel Park’. It is a joint ecology project of Istra tourist and Primary school Marija and Lina and is containing information of squirrels species found in the vicinity of Umag. There is a park where are placed all those small species of animals, you can watch them how they play and also you can learn something new about them as well.

Umag has a lot of interesting places for excursions but also the nearby towns like:

• Novigrad
• Porec
• Rovinj
• Buje
• Groznjan
• Motovun

Accommodations in Umag

Hotels in Umag

• Hotel Istra in Umag**
• Hotel Adriatic in Umag **
• Apartment Settlements Sol Polynesia in Umag ***
• Apartment Settlements Sol Stella Maris in Umag ***
• Hotel Dependance Garden Istra in Umag ***
• Hotel Kristal in Umag ***
• Hotel Sipar in Umag ***
• Hotel Sol Garden Istra in Umag ***
• Hotel Sol Aurora in Umag ****
• Hotel Sol Koralj in Umag ****
• Hotel Sol Umag in Umag ****
• Hotel Villa Rosetta in Umag****

Camping in Umag

• Camping Finida Umag
• Camping Kanegra Umag
• Camping Pineta Umag
• Camping Park Umag
• Camping Stella Maris Umag
• Camping Veli Joze Umag

Small camps in the region Umag-Novigrad

• Camping Bencic Umag
• Camping Koncar Savudrija
• Camping Kastanija Novigrad
• Camping Mareda Novigrad
• Camping Sirena Novigrad

Private accommodations in Umag

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Weather in Umag

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Sports & leisure time in Umag

The town Umag is a famous seaside resort which has many tennis courts and organizes many tournaments. Other sports include Croatias most prominent summer sports like sailing, surfing and various beach activities.
Umag offers variety of leisure and sport facilities.

• Apart from the usual water activities, like dipping (Bori Libra, Trg Slobode; œRC Aubaquatic A.D.S., TN Stella Maris, Website, E-Mail), water skiing, surfing and sailing there are also settled horse back riding places like (Konjicki Centar Juricanija, Sol Polynesia).
• The longest tradition in Umag is however tennis. There are approx. 100 tennis courts, e.g. in the holiday settlements or in the international tennis centers like Stella Maris.
• Furthermore you can visit the Water center of sports like Katoro Umag where you can rent boats, Kayaks, ski jets, and many other adrenalin sports. You can also drive the parachute flies or Banana boot there. Point of the open tourist course is a place which drives to the blank Savudrija.

What to eat in Umag

• At the Trg Slobode one finds the McDony Fast food, the Croatian version of McDonalds.
• The restaurant Laguna in Stella Maris.
• Restaurant Punta
• Likewise at the Trg Slobode is the Spaghetteria Garibaldi, a restaurant of the middle category.
• The ACI restaurant Neptun (ACI Marina Umag Punta) offers very good fish dishes at the favorable prices.
• And the best Pizza in the city is in the Pizzeria San Lorenzo.

for Gourmet

• The restaurant Istra is recommended as the best restaurant of the region. They provide the outstanding vine offer.

• In the Allegro, the hotel Kristal has a good fish offer and crustaceans specialties.

Beaches in Umag

Umag has beautiful beaches. Following is the list of the best beaches in Umag:

• Stella Maris: About 3 km in the Savudrija direction, in the middle of Zambratija, you go off the road and deviate on the left on the small road behind the bus stop. Then you after 100 meters, reach a small sandy bay, where can be rented the deck chairs and parasols.

• Plaža Aurora (Blue flag): rocky beach with bath plateaus in the holiday settlement Katoro, surrounded by the greenery.
• Plaža Kanegra (Blue flag): with pine woods, beach in the Piran bay, approx. 10 km north of Umag.
• Plaža Katoro (Blue flag): public beach, partial bath plateaus, surrounded by pine woods and green belts, partial sandy. Also has children™s playground and sport facility.
• Plaža Ladin Gaj (Blue flag): Rocky beach with bath plateaus, nearby the Karigador, approx. 8 km south of Umag.
• Plaža Laguna Stella Maris (Blue flag): surrounded by the pine woods, public flint beach in the lagoon of Stella Maris, approx. 3 km from Umag.
• Plaža Polynesia (Blue flag): public beaches, partial bath plateaus, surrounded by pine woods and green belts, partial sandy. Also has children’s playground and sport facility.

Nightlife and entertainment in Umag

• Umag has interesting and nice bars and wine cellars in the old town.
• At the yachting port Punta you will find fine restaurant with good dishes offer served in any time of the day.
• In the tourist complex Katoro is placed Casino Solei opened the whole year and works 24 hours a day. Casino Solei offers its visitors top entertainment and different spectacles and all kind of games as well. This Casino offers the top entertainment especially during the night and kind people for each guest.

Cultural and Heritage in Umag

Umag is the town with numerous cultural activities and events which its citizens offer extremely rich contents every year. The cultural offer is rich, especially during the summer, which is one of the many reasons for tourist development.
Umag has Museum where are saved and protected the archaeological and historical monuments. Some of the Archaeological Collections are the remains and findings from the various localities and different historical time periods.

Here you will find many monuments like:

• Parish Church of Blessed Virgin Mary which inside has preserved valuable fragments of the historical objects.
• The Church St. Pelegrin built in the late Baroque style with the indoor frescoes;
• Church of St. Roko which also has painted arch and some cultural and historical objects.

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