Hum with his 17 inhabitants is included in the Guinness Book of Records as the smallest city in the world. This smallest city in the world is located in the heart of Istria. It is part of the Buzet district, and the city of Buzet is 14 km away.

How to get there

You can get to Hum by car, sightseeing bus or on foot, as many tourists do with the purpose of sightseeing and enjoying the beautiful landscapes . . The most interesting road to Hume is, of course, the so-called "Glagoliai Avenue" stretching from Rocha to Huma, along the length of which in the fields along the roadside there are large stones-monuments, each of which is one letter from the Glagoliticus . Hum was alone from the most famous centers of the Glagolites since the 11th century . Glagolitsa was used here at the beginning of the 20th century . At the present time the letter on the Glagolitic is represented in Hume and its surrounding area on ancient monuments and during various modern events

@ History of Huma . Hume received his modern look in the Middle Ages, or rather in the 11th century . It was then that the Humsky Castle was built on the ruins of the ancient fortress, and next to it the first row of houses of the future town . B Istria was part of a large French corpus The Count Ulritsch I built and renewed a number of castles on the border lines of his ownership, including this one in Hume . In 1102 Ulritsch II gives Hum and several other castles to the possession of the Aquila patriarch . In a gift the name of the city is "castrum Cholm" (according to the ancient Croatian word "Hlm") . This document is the first written mention of Hume in his long history . Until the 17th century in historical documents, Hum is referred to as "castrum", which means " fortress ยป.

Entertainment, excursions and attractions imechatelnosti Huma

Today, Hum is a town-monument and one of the rare well-preserved examples of the city, the development of which took place exclusively within the early medieval walls. Since the beginning of its founding in the town of Hume, almost nothing has been built outside the city borders, the population has remained within the boundaries established in the early Middle Ages.

Hume has perfectly preserved the frescos created in the second half of the 12th century . At that time Hum belonged to the Aquilele dynasty, which, most likely, ordered their production . The author of these frescoes is unknown, but his skill shows us that it is a high-class professional whose creations can not be compared to any and others both in Istria and in its neighboring regions . The frescoes are executed in the spirit of the romantic West and, at the same time, under the influence of Byzantine art . In the Romanesque chapel of St. . Hierolim, in the Khoum cemetery, some very ancient wall paintings of high quality .

January 26, 2010
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