After wine, aroma and olive oil roads, popular cycling routes, truffle paths and an arts itinerary, Istria
looks, by the start of the peak tourist season, to get a Green Road.
In the effort to preserve the biodiversity of the Istrian peninsula, and in keeping with the active
nature holiday trend, the Natura Histrica institute for protected areas management and the Istra County
Tourist Board are preparing a program linking the most attractive protected landscapes in Istria and their
promotion through tourism. The Green Road will link a total of 33 protected areas across all of Istria, from
special nature reserves like Paluda, the Motovun Forest and the paleontological reserve in Barbariga with
its dinosaur fossils, to noteworthy landscapes between the towns of Pićan and GračiÅ¡će, between Labin,
Rabac and Prtok and around Kamenjak.
Besides the Brijuni National Park and the Učka Nature Park, located in this area, visitors will be able
to see fascinating natural monuments, while up for protected status are the Istrian rivers of Raša and
Mirna and the islands around the city of Vrsar.
The realisation of this project and its valorisation in tourism will ensure further protection for these,
until now, unprotected natural areas in Istria, and will also allow certain sites to be recognised as valuable
natural habitats in which no construction would be allowed.

Source: Istra County Tourist Board