Church and monastery of St. Francis

I love tortoises and they were here

Let me start by admitting that i love tortoises,and there were numerous hermanns tortoises in the cloister gardens,I loved it.The chuch itself was nice,but the tortoises made it for me

Lovely Mosaic

The place is a bit inconspicuous so we nealy missed it. It is not the most exciting monastery but quite pleasant for all that. The mosaics are nice and the remaining its of roman architecture. We thou...

If you've seen one monastery...

The church and monastery were fine but nothing that really moved or inspired me. What I found most interesting was looking at the exterior and seeing blocks of stone that had obviously (at least to m...

Pula holiday

We nearly walked past here, but so glad we didn't, we were the only people wandering around, it was very tranquil, it has a mosaic that is fairly complete and the church itself is very impressive

Unexpected pleasure.

There are some interesting pieces of Pula history in this Church. The roman mosaic floor under the existing church demonstrates how common it was to use existing foot prints and materials from roman b...