Rovinj Craft Tour

About the event:

Free authentic experience

Join our tour of the old town centre with an expert guide if you are curious to learn about traditional customs, crafts and handicrafts.

The tour will begin in front of the Tourist Board of Rovinj-Rovigno, at the address Trg na mostu 2, at 10:00 o’clock. During the tour, which lasts about 2 and a half hours, the participants will visit the only remaining cobbler in Rovinj, in Zdenac Street, and the original Rovinj tavern – Spacio Matika in Vladimir Švalba Street, where they can take part in a workshop, preparing traditional desert – Rovinj’s fijoki. At the Batana Eco-Museum they will learn about Rovinj’s long fishing tradition and the batana boat, and in the museum’s vicinity they can watch how fishing nets are repaired, boats constructed or also repaired, and wicker demijohns crafted. The House of Rovinj Pelinkovac will teach the participants all about the manufacture of the renowned Rovinj’s bitter liqueur and other liqueurs that are produced according to a traditional, century-old recipe. In the tasting room of the Agrorovinj Association, participants take part in a workshop on preparing Istrian supa.

Tours take place every Thursday:

• from 28.5.2026 to 2.7.2026 (exceptionally, instead of Thursday, 4.6.2026, the guided tour will take place on Friday, 5.6.2026)
• from 27.8.2026 to 1.10.2026

Note: Guided tours are available in Croatian, Italian, English and German. When booking a tour, please specify the preferred language.

If you want to join a guided tour or need information, contact us no later than one hour before the start of the tour at info@rovinj-tourism.hr.