Piran
Everytime I see photos of Piran (and Portoroz) my heart is filled with pride and joy. I´m really proud of my hometowns (on my mother´s side). Both my mother and my grandmother (and her mother and her mother) were born and raised in Piran/Portoroz. We spent every summer (two months) here since I was born. Before I started first grade in Sweden we lived in Slovenia for ten months and two in Sweden, but from the age of six and up it was the other way around; ten months in Sweden and two in Slovenia. And now when I´m studying it´s the other way around again; ten in Slovenia, two in Sweden. Life is good. During my longer school-holidays I go back to Sweden to visit my parents and to celebrate Christmas and New Year with them and during summers I work in Sweden (my fifth summer now). But for my shorter vacations (halloween, Easter etc) and for the weekends I take the three-hours train-ride to Portoroz from Ljubljana. And since it´s real summer in Portoroz until October, my work-schedule ends in August and school begins in October I normally spend the entire September in Portoroz, enjoying the sun and the Adriatic sea in our sailing club. Play tennis,dive, swim, sail, play minigolf...it´s pretty sweet let me tell you.
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Here´s a short essay about the history of Piran. No big history-fan? Skip this text!
In the Piran area the original settlers were Illyrs, who were 178 B.C. evicted by Romans, who in turn settled down in these parts. In the 9th century it was annexed by the Italian kingdom, and then in the year 952 was under the German empire, later the rule in Istria and Piran belonged to the patriarch of Aquilea. The town became an independent feudal estate and had fortified defence walls, which were later extended (from vegetables market of today until present day end of Tartini square - where one of the towers is still visible). Again the might of Venetians prevails and their rule is established in Piran (after a brief war from 1282 until 1283). In the 14th century Piran boasted a school for nobles and rich citizens and that school is one of the oldest in Slovenia. Piran nursed in the middle ages also considerable land appetites, and was thus in frequent bloody battles with the neighbouring towns of Buje and Izola, so much so that even the Venetian Doge was forced to intervene between the sides. In the year 1797 the Venetian supremacy ends and Napoleon sent here Austrian troops (until 1806), but no lasting influence was exercised by them except for construction of outer harbour. The same was under the French (from 1806 until 1813). In the Austrian Habsburg monarchy (from 1813 until 1918) the town of Piran flourished experiencing welfare. After the first world war Piran came under the rule of the Italian state. From year 1991 Piran belongs to the Republic of Slovenia.
Scource: Miracolo Di Mare
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