Description

Small tourist and residential village within the bounds of the comune of Duino-Aurisina. It comprises a nucleus of recent houses built along a canal harbour created near the springs of the river Timavo. The settlement is relatively recent, having been constructed between 1951 and 1952 in the vicinity of the so-called Val Catino (Valcain), now Bocadin, limited to the west by the sandbar of the Timavo’s mouth, to provide homes for the Italian refugee families who left Yugoslavia after the war and who worked in fishing and fish farming. Initially dedicated to one of the patron saints of the Istrian towns like the other villages built for the refugees (it was known as “Villaggio San Marco” or “Saint Mark’s village”), its name was subsequently changed. During the 1990s, the families of the refugees and their descendants, originally the only residents, began to see an influx of new residents.