One museum is dedicated to Josip Broz Tito and his guests on Brioni and the other one is dedicated to the animals that lived on the islands over time.

If you take the southern direction from the castle the first building that you will note is a nice Venetian house with kazun. This house has a small courtyard with a typical Istrian stone made house in one angle and a small defence tower in the other angle.

The next building is the Church of St. Rock from the 15th century and if you look towards the green field in front of you there is the oldest Istrian olive tree from the 4th century. Nearby the road you will also note the metal dove sculpture made by Dusan Dzamonja.

With the train, at the beginning and the end of your trip you will pass near to all this buildings and places. You will also see the golf court, safari, and some villas where various important political meetings were held during the second half of the 20th century.

You will also pass nearby Tagethoff fortress on Straza hilltop. In reality you will only see some human constructions on top of the hill in the middle of the wood.

Close to the end of your trip with the train you will see the ruins of a gorgeous Roman country residence in the Verige Bay and you will also pass nearby a beautiful Pine ally planted by Alojz Cufar in 1905.

As I said all this places you should visit on your own after the train trip and you should also include the Church of St. Mary, Paul Kupelweiser’s son and wife tombs, Church of St. Peter and the Byzantine castrum.

Brioni, like most other Istrian places, have been inhabited since prehistoric times. On the place named Gromaca, on Big Brioni island, remnants of a dugout settlement from the Neolithic period have been found.

This was probably the largest Neolithic Istrian settlement and dates back in the 6000 BC.

On the hilltops of Big Brioni island, in particular on: Kasteljir, Cipro, Anthony and Straza, and also on Small Brioni the ruins of prehistoric Illyrian hill fort settlements were found.

Most of the stones from the prehistoric hill fort settlements were used by Romans to build their villas. In reality Brioni was also famous for the beauty of its stones and most beautiful Venetian palaces in Canal Grande are made with Istrian and Brioni stones.

There were important quarry on the island in both Roman and Venetian times.

The natural beauty of the Brioni islands attracted even Roman patricians who built their luxurious villas and also villa rusticas on the Big Brioni, Small Brioni and Vanga island. They used the island to for vacation but also to produce olive oil and wine.

On the Big Brioni island the Roman villas are located in Verige Bay, Dobrika Bay, on the hilltops Kolci and Cipro. On the hilltop Cipro Romans also built a big well. The well capacity was of about 2000 m3, and from the well they built a water supply system for the nearby villas. Similar villas have been found also in the St. Nicholas inlet and Cape Sokol on Small Brioni and on the eastern side of the Vanga island.

You will see two wells in Verige Bay and you will recognize them if you look carefully to their walls. They are similar to the walls we see today made by low quality cement, the only difference is that these walls are over 2000 years old.

You will pass with the train nearby Verige Bay but you should return to this place later on. It is not far away from the Church of St. Germaine, only 15 minutes walk.