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In Motovun, throughout the year, a number of traditional
local and international manifestations take place:
| The traditional local
games "bacanje roga (throwing
of the horn)" is an integral part of Lent
that is Lent festivities. On “Ash Wednesday”, the day
after Shrove Tuesday, men compete in throwing of wooden
bats or “bačuka” as close as possible to the ox horns.
It is thrown in a number of stages and |
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from the top to the bottom of the Motovun hill. |
The traditional "Motovun samanj",
is an annual local feast day which celebrates the consecration
of the Motovun parish church of Saint Stephan, along with
numerous festive and cultural programmes it is held on the
2nd of August.
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The international Motovun
film festival which was founded in the year 1999,
at the beginning of August gathers here up to twenty
thousand film lovers. The Hotel "Kaštel" regularly
plays host to festival activities, from accommodation
of contestants and |
guests
of the festival to evening festivities and night film
showings on the hotel terrace.
Autumn and winter offer Motovun, inhabitants of Motovun
and their guests an
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abundance
of nature’s gifts. This is the season when the renowned
white truffles are gathered from the Motovun forest
and when the bounty from the Motovun vineyards is transformed
into the best Istrian wines, teran and malvasia. Throughout
the whole month of October, in the whole Mirna valley
– in Opatija, the Istrian thermal springs, Gradinje
and Motovun – the festivities of the “Days of
truffles” are held. During these days it is
a special experience tasting dishes made from freshly
picked truffles, these noble, tasty aphrodisiac mushrooms,
including many other programs. Along with the month
long “Days of truffles” festivities, Motovun, in the
first weekend in November, plays host to the “Festival
of balloons, wine and truffles”, a manifestation
whose gastronomic pleasures are enriched with an air
of adventure.
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