The touris train takes the guests to visit different wine cellars around Novigrad, and enjoy tasting various types of wine, olive oils and other food treats. The excursion Novigrad-Cittanova Wine Trail is taking place on the day of each edition of Gnam Gnam Fest, and lasts for a couple of hours. Novigrad Cittanova Wine Trail – A story about wines and olive oil Novigrad’s caterers follow all the thematic events by creating special menus with promotional prices.
All of them are real food treasures and offer to its guest’s unique experience and a possibility to better get in touch with Novigrad’s customs and tradition. Each event celebrates one or more local ingredient as wild asparagus, Adriatic seafood, Mediterranean scallops and other shellfish, sardines and other oily fish, and traditional Istrian dishes. Gnam Gnam Fest is a set of food open air manifestations which take place once a month during April, May, June, September and October. With focusing on authentic cuisine Novigrad has raised a quality of its food offer in its restaurants, motivated and encouraged local chefs to create and develop unique menus which celebrate local wine and food offer of the region. They are one of the motivators for guests to visit Novigrad during pre and post season.
Novigrad’s events create boutique gourmet atmosphereĭuring the year in Novigrad you’ll find numerous gourmet experiences and events. Besides, Novigrads’ olive oils Vergal and Il Torcio are also recognized around the world and on world’s competitions were awarded with gold medals. Restaurants Damir & Ornella is listed on „La Lista“ as one of 1000 best world restaurants, and also has two Gault & Millau culinary hats. Restaurant Marina is also a member of association of young restaurateurs Jeunes Restaurateurs d’Europe. Michelin guide included thirteen Istrian restaurants in its special printed edition, and gave a recommendation for three Novigrads restaurants (Čok, Damir & Ornella and Marina). Fresh, high quality and authentic ingredients and the way of preparation and presentation are the main highlight for standing out from the crowd. Novigrads restaurants and food brands successfully follow the trends, and its work is recognized around the world. Last year’s Croatian gastronomy got numerous awards for its excellence. World recognitions of Novigrad’s gastronomic brands Novigrad is a little town in Istria which will fascinate you with its pristine Mediterranean spirit – magical atmosphere within old city walls, small streets in the old part of the town where friendly and kind host live and work, exciting smells from numerous restaurants where you’ll find even the best ones in Croatia. Novigrad has become known in one of the most dynamic and the most creative tourism segments – food tourism. Here they use the advantage of the region and an abundance of local ingredients. In Novigrad people are aware the food is one of the most important elements in developing tourism experience. To further explore this place, just scroll down and browse the available info.By Martina Lucić Čanak Reading Time: 4 minutes If you need a place to sleep, we compiled a list of available hotels close to the map centre further down the page.ĭepending on your travel schedule, you might want to pay a visit to some of the following locations: Tar, Brtonigla, Porec, Kastelir and Buje. We found 4 points of interest in the vicinity of this place. The closest heritage site in Croatia is Episcopal Complex of the Euphrasian Basilica in the Historic Centre of Poreč in a distance of 6 mi (or 10 km), South. There are several Unesco world heritage sites nearby. Besides the airports, there are other travel options available (check left side). The closest airport in Croatia is Pula Airport in a distance of 33 mi (or 18 km), North. The closest is airport we know is Portoroz Airport in Slovenia in a distance of 11 mi (or 18 km). We know of 10 airports in the wider vicinity of Antenal, of which 5 are larger airports. The local timezone is named Europe / Zagreb with an UTC offset of 2 hours. Local time in Antenal is now 05:41 AM (Wednesday). Antenal in Novigrad-Cittanova (Istarska Županija) is located in Croatia about 121 mi (or 194 km) west of Zagreb, the country's capital.