ROSACCIO, GIUSEPPE: VIEW OF ROVINJ

Among the views  included in the travel-record book «Viaggio da Venetia a Constantinopoli per Mare, e per Terra, & insieme quello di Terra Santa», that Giuseppe Rosaccio dedicated to the town of Rovinj. The characteristic dense urban structure of acropolis type with St. Euphemia’s church on its top is clearly recognizible. In the waterfront, the cave of St. Euphemia is identified labelled as “Grota de S. Eufemia” where, according to tradition, the sarcophagus containing the body of St. Euphemia was brought by the waves. In the western side of the settlement the Riva square is distinguished extending northwards up to the coast of the Golf of Valdebora. In the background, the channel separating the old settlement from its future suburbs is highlighted. In front of the port of St. Catharine the islets of Peoti and the small island of St Andreas on which the homonym monastery with its church can be seen.