St. Peter – above the Dragonja Valley, between church and village culture

St. Peter is situated on a 175-metre-high hill above the Dragonja Valley. This information provides a clear geographical framework for the place. You can consider the landscape, history and village life with different emphases, without limiting yourself to just one aspect.

When comparing a holiday apartment in St. Peter, you can compare travel dates, room category and cancellation conditions on the respective offer pages. You can read the information side by side there at your leisure before deciding on a specific option. For St. Peter, you can regard the travel dates as the time frame, the room category as a description of the offer and the cancellation conditions as separate comparison information. This information is part of the accommodation decision, but remains separate from the cultural and village-related topics of the place. This allows you to weigh offer details and characteristics of the place objectively alongside one another.

Culture and history

The Church of St. Peter in Sveti Peter was first mentioned in 1579. It contains a restored Renaissance relief altar from the workshop of the Venetian master Pietro Lombardo. On the hill above Sveti Peter stands the Chapel of the Holy Spirit.

For your cultural orientation, you can distinguish between documented church history, Venetian-influenced Renaissance art and another sacred site on the hill. The three references each set their own emphasis and can be considered independently of one another.

Tona's House is an ethnological monument with well-preserved elements of Istrian rural architecture. In 1979, Tona's House was restored in keeping with the period; it preserves characteristic elements of Istrian rural architecture and illustrates the former way of life of Istrian farmers.

On the ground floor of Tona's House, you can visit a reconstructed oil mill. The first floor contains living quarters that illustrate life and culture in the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century.

Traditional olive oil production in such an oil mill included an olive grinder, a press, a spindle for tightening the press screw, and a stove with a boiler for heating water.

If you are travelling with different interests, you can arrange the information into separate areas of focus: sacred art, rural architecture, everyday history and traditional production stand side by side. The topics can be distinguished objectively by the floor indications and the named devices.

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Village life and events

At the village festival of Sveti Peter, Istrian customs, folklore, singing, local produce and a cultural programme are the focus in front of Tonina hiša. For your planning, you can consider this type of event separately from the quieter cultural topics and set the focus of your trip according to the impressions you are looking for.

The SV. PETER CUP is a traditional, regularly held small-sided football tournament in Sveti Peter. The first SV. PETER CUP tournament was held in 1995.

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