The Istrian peninsula, with its miles of beautiful coastline and proximity to Austria and Italy, is popular with buyers from northern Europe and Italy.

BBC: Living in: Croatia

On the Istrian peninsula in western Croatia, several varieties of two-part singing and playing in the Istrian scale are preserved by Croatian, Istro-Romanian and Italian communities.

UNESCO: Culture

The killings occurred in and around the Istrian peninsula, which fell to Italy at the end of the first world war but was lost to Yugoslavia after the second.

ECONOMIST: A new diplomatic row about an old piece of barbarism