Pazin Castle

The Pazin Castle is a medieval fortification constructed on a solid rock situated within the middle of the city of Pazin, the administrative seat of Istria County, Croatia. It is the largest and satisfactory-preserved fort in that westernmost Croatian county. It overlooks the deep gorge of the Pazincica Foiba river, a small karst subterranean river that disappears there through sinkhole and continues underground. The fortified shape changed into constructed of hewn stone, and, all through its eleven-century-long records, subjected to several principal reconstructions and renovations. Today it is in accurate situation and homes the Pazin Town Museum.

The Pazin Castle become first cited as Castrum Pisinum on 7 June 983 in a document issued via Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor, confirming the ownership of the fortress to bishop of Porec. In the twelfth century the bishops of Porec ceded it to Meinhard of Schwarzenburg, owner of Crnigrad Castle, then to Meinhard I, Count of Gorizia, and eventually to Meinhard, Margrave of Istria and his successors.