Kanfanar

Kanfanara (Italian Canfanaro ) is a city and a municipality in Istria County, Croatia. The community has 2011 1.543 inhabitants according to the census. Kanfanara located 20 km northeast of Rovinj on 281 meters above the Adriatic.

History

The present city Kanfanara emerged from the two smaller villages Parentino and Moncastello. Parention has Illyrian roots, but has been abandoned since then. Moncastello, later ( today Dvigrad ) called Duecastello, lost in 1631 due to disease -like illness and its inhabitants as their new settlement was today Kanfanara. As a building material is used, inter alia, the actual ruins of Dvigrad.

The Church of St. Silvester ( 1696 ) in Kanfanara secures the surviving liturgical objects from the Church of Dvigrad.

Economy

The economic basis of the town consists mainly in small businesses and tourist activities. On the western edge of the city, a large limestone quarry, which provides a light beige rocks from the Cretaceous formation for construction and decoration purposes works. This stone with the same name as his city is known nationwide.

Kanfanara has a freeway connection to leading in a north-south direction new Istrian highway A 9 There is also a railway connection to the built about 1876 line R101 between Pazin and Pula. A connection which began in 1900, narrow gauge local railway Trieste- Parenzo ( " Parenzobahn " ) was omitted because the third planned route section Parenzo - Kanfanara was not built.

On the edge of town there is a large tobacco processing factory.

Major sons and daughters of the town

• Giovanni Glavinìch / Franjo Glavinić ( born June 23, 1585 † December 6, 1652 in Trsat / Tersatto - District of Rijeka), Franciscan, theologian, writer, historian
• Gregorio Franisovich († 1810 in Koper ), officer and participant in the Turkish wars in the Balkans