Istria: a whole house with a private pool

Some Istrian days are best imagined around a house: making breakfast in your own kitchen, drifting between a book and the pool, then deciding whether dinner will happen at home or in a nearby town. A whole house with a private pool gives a holiday this centre of gravity. The home is for your party, and the pool is reserved for the guests staying in that house. It is an invitation to give time to the place you chose, as well as to the region around it.

The peninsula beyond the front door

Croatian Istria changes character between its coastal towns and its inland hills. Stone-built villages, cultivated slopes and small squares offer plenty to draw you out for an afternoon. The setting of each house makes a difference: a village address has another atmosphere from a home in a more open landscape.

An afternoon with no appointment

A private pool makes swimming part of life at the house when it is in use. Between dips there is time for conversation, a late lunch or another chapter. With the whole home and its kitchen to yourselves, an afternoon might end with someone chopping vegetables while the others choose music for dinner.