Poreč
Poreč is a town and municipality on the western coast of the Istrian peninsula, in Istria County, west Croatia. Its major landmark is the 6th-century Euphrasian Basilica, which was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 8,840 residents
- Description: town and settlement in Istria County, Croatia
- Also known as: “Parentium”, “Parenz”, and “Parenzo”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Euphrasian Basilica and Žatika Sport Centre.
Euphrasian Basilica
Church
Photo: Tiefkuehlfan, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Euphrasian Basilica or the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of Mary is a Roman Catholic basilica in the Istrian town of Poreč, Croatia. The episcopal complex, which comprises the basilica itself, a sacristy, a baptistery and the bell tower of the nearby archbishop's palace, is an excellent example of early Byzantine architecture in the Mediterranean region.
Žatika Sport Centre
Sports venue
Žatika Sport Centre is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Poreč, Croatia. It was built for hosting the 2009 World Men's Handball Championship, and formally opened on 21 November 2008.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vrvari and Garbina.
Črvar
Village
Črvar or Červar is a village in the municipality of Poreč-Parenzo, Istria in Croatia. Črvar is situated 4 km north of Poreč.
Poreč
- Categories: town in Croatia and locality
- Location: Istria County, Istria, Croatia, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
45.2272° or 45° 13′ 38″ northLongitude
13.5957° or 13° 35′ 45″ eastPopulation
8,840Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)United Nations Location Code
HR POROpen location code
8FQM6HGW+V7OpenStreetMap ID
node 29909360OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Waray—“Poreč” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Poreč”
- Albanian: “Poreç”
- Arabic: “بوريتش”
- Arabic: “بوريك”
- Aragonese: “Parenzo”
- Armenian: “Պորեչ”
- Asturian: “Poreč”
- Azerbaijani: “Poreç”
- Azerbaijani: “Pоreç”
- Basque: “Poreč”
- Belarusian: “Порач”
- Belarusian: “Порэч”
- Bosnian: “Poreč”
- Breton: “Poreč”
- Bulgarian: “Пореч”
- Catalan: “Parentium”
- Catalan: “Parenz”
- Catalan: “Parenzo”
- Catalan: “Poreč”
- Cebuano: “Poreč”
- Central Kurdish: “پۆرێچ”
- Chinese: “波雷奇”
- Croatian: “Poreč - Parenzo”
- Croatian: “Poreč”
- Czech: “Poreč”
- Danish: “Poreč”
- Dutch: “Parentium”
- Dutch: “Parenz”
- Dutch: “Parenzo”
- Dutch: “Poreč”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بوريك”
- Esperanto: “Parentium”
- Esperanto: “Parenz”
- Esperanto: “Parenzo”
- Esperanto: “Poreĉ”
- Esperanto: “Poreč”
- Estonian: “Poreč”
- Finnish: “Poreč”
- French: “Parentium”
- French: “Parenz”
- French: “Parenzo”
- French: “Poreč”
- German: “Parentium”
- German: “Parenz”
- German: “Parenzo”
- German: “Poreč”
- Greek: “Πόρετς”
- Hebrew: “פורץ‘”
- Hebrew: “פורץ’”
- Hebrew: “פורץ”
- Hindi: “पोरेक”
- Hungarian: “Poreč”
- Indonesian: “Poreč”
- Interlingue: “Poreč”
- Italian: “Parentium”
- Italian: “Parenz”
- Italian: “Parenzo”
- Italian: “Poreč”
- Japanese: “ポレッチ”
- Korean: “포레치”
- Latin: “Parentium”
- Lithuanian: “Parentium”
- Lithuanian: “Parenz”
- Lithuanian: “Parenzo”
- Lithuanian: “Poreč”
- Lithuanian: “Porečas”
- Lombard: “Parenzo”
- Macedonian: “Пореч”
- Northern Frisian: “Poreč”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Poreč”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Poreč”
- Norwegian: “Poreč”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Poreč”
- Ossetian: “Пореч”
- Persian: “پرچ”
- Polish: “Parenzo”
- Polish: “Porec”
- Polish: “Poreč”
- Portuguese: “Parentium”
- Portuguese: “Parenz”
- Portuguese: “Parenzo”
- Portuguese: “Porec”
- Portuguese: “Poreč”
- Romanian: “Poreč”
- Russian: “Пореч”
- Serbian: “Parenco”
- Serbian: “Poreč”
- Serbian: “Паренцо”
- Serbian: “Пореч”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Poreč”
- Slovak: “Poreč”
- Slovenian: “Poreč”
- Spanish: “Parentium”
- Spanish: “Parenz”
- Spanish: “Parenzo”
- Spanish: “Poreč”
- Swedish: “Parentium”
- Swedish: “Parenz”
- Swedish: “Parenzo”
- Swedish: “Poreč”
- Tatar: “Пореч”
- Turkish: “Parenzo”
- Turkish: “Piransa”
- Turkish: “Piranse”
- Turkish: “Porec”
- Turkish: “Poreč”
- Turkish: “Poreç”
- Ukrainian: “Пореч”
- Venetian: “Parenzo”
- Vietnamese: “Poreč”
- Waray (Philippines): “Poreč”
- “Parentium”
- “Parenz”
- “Parenzo”
- “Poreč”
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