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VALTURA, aEconomy is based on farming and livestock breeding. Decorative stone is extracted and processed in the vicinity. Valtura is located on a regional road. - Valtura is famous for the archaeological site Vizace (2 km from Valtura); in antique times, the town was called Nesactium (Nezakcij). - A necropolis, town walls and remains of a settlement date back to Illyrian times.  village in the southern part of Istria.

 

 

 

Statues of household gods, i.e. lares, with a considerable influence of Greek archaic plastics, have been preserved, which bears witness to a powerful interaction between different, actually very remote cultures of those times. At the time when Nesactium was a military colony, it had a characteristic aspect of a Roman settlement, a forum with three temples and other public buildings and a powerful defence system. In the 5th century two monumental early Christian basilicas were built, which were destroyed in the 6th and 7th centuries, together with the entire town, by the Avars and Slavs. The most valuable finds from Nesactium are kept in the Archaeological Museum of Istria in Pula.

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
 

 

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