ROVINJ

'Rovinj'

Latitude	45.04°N
Longitude	13.37°E
Mayor	Giovanni Sponza (IDS)
Population (2001)	13,562
Surface (km²)	88
Time zone (UTC)	UTC+1 Central European Time

'Rovinj' (Italian: 'Rovigno'; Istriot: ''Ruvèigno'') is a city in Croatia situated on the north Adriatic Sea with a population of 13,562 (2007).
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It is located on the western coast of the Istrian peninsula and is a popular tourist resort and an active fishing port. There is a sizeable community of Italians and the town is officially bilingual (Croatian and Italian). Moreover, Istriot, an ancient romance language once widely spoken in this part of Istria, is still spoken by part of the residents. There is a centre of History Research which is an institution of the Council of Europe.

Contents

Geography

History

Population

City government

Tourism

External links

References

Geography

Rovinj is one of nine towns in Istrian County. The climate is Mediterranean. The average temperature is 4.8° C in January and 22.3° C in July. The average annual temperature is 16° C.
Sea temperature is more than 20° C from the middle of June to the middle of September. The average annual sea temperature is 16.6 ° C.

From the middle of May to the middle of September the sun shines more than 10 hours a day.
The rainfall averages 940 mm a year. The average humidity is 72%. Vegetation is subtropical.
Originally the peninsula on which the city lies was an island, separated from the mainland by a channel. The latter was filled in 1763. Rovinj Archipelago includes 22 islets.

History

Rovinj was already settlemed by Illyrian tribes before being captured by the Romans, who called it ''Arupiunum'' or ''Mons Rubineus'', and later ''Ruginium'' and ''Ruvinium''.
It was for centuries one of the most important towns of Istria under the Republic of Venice. After the fall of the latter and the Napoleonic parenthesis, Rovinj was part of the Austrian Empire until World War I. Then it belonged to Italy from 1918 to 1947, when it was ceded to Yugoslavia: in that period much of the Italian inhabitants fled.

Population

There are 15,000 people living in Rovinj. The majority of its citizens are Croats at 65.94%. There are around 2,400 Italians living in Rovinj. Ethnic minorities are Albanians (2.37%), Bosniaks (1.81%), Italians (11.44%), and Serbs (3.51%). The census of 1921 said that there were 9,482 Italians over a total population of 10,022 inhabitants.

City government

The City Assembly is composed of 19 representatives, coming from the following political parties:

★ Istrian Democratic Assembly (IDS) 13

★ Independent 3

★ Social Democratic Party of Croatia (SDP) 2

★ Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) 1

Tourism

According to the data of the Tourist Association of the Istrian County, Rovinj is the second leading destination in terms of the number of realized overnights. The most numerous visitors to the city of Rovinj are Germans, Italians, Austrians and Dutch. Since the recent introduction of low cost flights from the UK to Treviso and Pula the number of UK visitors has increased dramatically.

External links

★ Hotels & Resorts in Rovinj

★ Tourist association of Rovinj

★ Rovinj Travel Guide

★ The official site of the Town of Rovinj

★ Rovinj accommodation portal

★ Rovinj.info - Accommodation in Rovinj

★ Rovinj Heritage Museum

★ Batana - Center of Visual Arts

★ MAW walked there

★ Private Accomodation Rovinj

References

1. "The World Gazetteer"