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| Nesactium |
This is the most important archaeological site on all the peninsula. The spacious and massive hill-fort of Nezakcij had been shaped in the Bronze Age. It had been the political and religious centre of the Histrian tribes alliance and their capital. In 177 B.C. the decisive battle between the Romans (superior in number) and the Histrians took place here.
To avoid to be made prisoner by the enemy, the Histrian king Epulon supposedly threw himself on the sword and died. His soldiers followed his example. After the Romans had conquered Nezakcij, it became a miltary patrol station on the road going from Pula, through Li?njan, to Labin and Liburnia. The findings brought out to the daylight are from the period between 11th and 7th century B.C. From the prehistorical time only the necropolis, the walls and a ditch foundations have been preserved. From the Roman period are the forum, the thermae, the road for the water, the doors and the remains of three temples. It is easy to notice the ruins of two big basilicas, rectangular and parallel, from early Christianity (5th cen.) On the site, there is a small museum. Most of the findings (vases, pottery, glass tear-collectors, urns, oil-lamps) are displayed in the Archaeological Museum in Pula. Among the findings, there are objects manufactured in Greece and Apulia.
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| Port of Kuje |
South-east of the place Liznjan, there is a large bay of the port Kuje. Remains of a country villa from the Roman Times have been found here. The Bay of Kuje is the only registered archaeological site in the area of the Municipality of Liznjan. On the mentioned site, 12-33 m in depth, there have been found remains of amphoras of North-African origin dating from 2nd and 4th century BC.
In the 17th century the church dedicated to Our Lady "of Kuj" was put up in the vicinity. It is a votive chapel of farmers and fishermen with baroque characteristics. In 1995 there were important archaeological excavations in the place which showed that the church was built on ancient foundations. The transparent glass "floor" makes it possible for the visitors to see this valuable ancient testimony.
In the Bay of Kuje, there is a monument witnessing the forming of the War Navy for South Istra. It was a heavy blow to the naval unit when on 16 September 1944 the German sank all the boats in the Bay of Kuje with bombs. The monument is sign of recognition to the fishermen and marines for their courage and for accomplishing their tasks as members of the naval unit of the National Liberation War Army.
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| Cesare Rossarol |
"Cesare Rossarol" was an Italian war ship that perished in the waters of Liznjan. It set sail for its last voyage without return on Saturday 16 November 1918. Together with the crew and the captain Ludovico de Filippi, on board was also Giovanni Pizzini, the best "guide" that the Navy management in Pula had then. Pizzini's task was to "guide" the destroyer through the existing mine obstacles.
Punctually at 12.45 a.m. "C. Rossarol" was shaken by a violent explosion in the space of the power generator and broken in two parts, after which it disappeared from the surface to the depth of 50 metres with most of the crew within two minutes. It is supposed that with its right side the ship activated a mine at the west end of the minefield.
In 1919 the Italian families put up a monument in memory of the perished crew members not far from the Promontory Munat Veliki.
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| Hill of Svetica |
East of Sisan above the sea there is an 88 m high hill known as Svetica or Monte Madonna. On the top of it, there are the remains of ruins of a castle settlement fortified by a double wall. There have also been found remains of Roman buildings, which means that it had been an important place for the navigation control
In 1915 (beginning of the World War One) the construction of a powerful battery group Monte della Madonna began.
In the period of cold war, in the 50s, the planning and construction of underground concrete dugouts started secretly. The action was marked "Top secret". At the time nobody of the local inhabitabts were allowed to pass through this area, and the mistery somehow persists to the present days.
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| Sandalja caves |
Sandalja is a system of caves placed above and under the ground called after the quarry of the same name. In this place stone had already been exploited at the Roman Times. Only the caves ?andalja 1 and 2 have been explored up to the present. In the years 1961 and 1962, the academic Malez found the remains of incisor teeth belonging to "homo erectus" one million years old. In the same site, there has been found the oldest European hitting tool, a flint hitter. These information tell us about the oldest early man in Europe.
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| St. Stephen |
The site of St. Stephen's is situated by the sea south-east of Sisan and has always been known as a reach archaeological finding place. On the sea shore, there are visible
numerous remains of "trilobiti".
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