On a hill above the Mirna valley, you find a small town called Hum
This small fortified habitation has maintained all the features of medieval urban architecture and organization. It has a population of only 17 people in 2001, 23 people in 2009 and 25 people in 2013 but is officially a town.
Do you know the population today?
So what makes a City?
City gate, City walls, Urban center, parish church and Hum has it all!
- Country: Croatia/Istria
- Population: 23
- Elevation: 349 m (1145 ft)
- Time zone: CET (UTC+1)
- Source: Wikipedia (2009)
Hum street view
Nice to know:
- Hum is officially listed by the Guinness Book of Records as the smallest town in the world.
- On its western side the town is enclosed by walls and on the remaining sides houses are built into the defensive walls.
- A bell and watch tower was built in 1552 as part of the town's defenses beside the town loggia.
- It's not only the home to the medicinal mistletoe grappa, but an agent story tells that the secret recipes were brought by powerful Druids 2000 years ago.
- Despite such a small number of residents it preserved the old ritual “Election of the prefect for a year” when all the men from the parish gather at the Municipal Loggia to elect the village superior by carving their votes into a wooden stick.
"Once upon a time, when fairies, magic and dragons ruled the earth, giants gathered stones and built towns on beautiful green hills. People came to live in the towns while the giants escaped into the dense woods where they still hide today… This is one of the legends about the magical history of Istria. Her magic is present today: sleepy stone villages on emerald hills wake up covered by veils of fog and the gentle tenderness of the sun’s hot rays." - Histrica
This is a great video describing Hum
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