Old Town Peninsula

Umag enters history as a Roman settlement, then a Venetian fishing and trading port — the last meaningful harbour before the Istrian coast turns toward Trieste. Its position on the borderlands made it a fortress town: walls and towers against pirates and raids, changed hands through the Venetian, Austrian and Italian periods, and carried the 20th century’s border shifts more than once — the iron curtain ran just up the coast for a generation. The town walls survive in fragments wrapped into the old town’s houses; the church tower survives intact.