The city of Pula has more than 3000 years and was built on a hill where the castle was created first hill-fort settlements, fortifications Histra. In addition to round two of the main street, from prehistoric ruins, nothing else. The rights of the city's history began with the Romans. The official name of the city was Colonia Iulia Pola Pietas, and had all the functions and structures typical of the Roman settlement of immigrants.
In the age of migrations in Pula are surrounding areas of the VII. century stood settled Slavs and Croats. After 1331st The Pula could not escape the claws of a lion St. Mark. Venetians in Pula did not show interest in the economic development of the city, because it is the most important was a port as a transit point on their way from Venice along the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea to the Levant. Frequent outbreaks of plague XIV. century, as well as endemic malaria and other diseases, were drastically reduced the number of inhabitants, so that in Pula at the end of XVII. century, lived only about 600 people. However, the period of humanism and the Renaissance in European cultural circles are all known ancient monuments became Pula: Arena, Triumphal Arch, the Temple of Augustus, so many artists and architects XVI, XVII. and XVIII. century lived in Pula, drawing and describing the Roman buildings that served as the model of architecture from the Renaissance to Classicism.
After the collapse of Venice and Pula, Istria came under the Austrian crown. Since 1815th until the end of World War Pula was part of the Austrian Littoral (Küstenland). When in 1856. Arsenal was opened, that is the main base of the Austrian Navy, began the modern development of the city and the south of Istria. Once in 1876. was connected by rail with the line Vienna - Pula Trieste and the nearby Brijuni felt the beginnings of tourism, all of which are members of the imperial family, led by Franz Joseph, were guests of Pula.
The twentieth century was the century of the Pula multiple changes of government, with departures and arrivals of the population, some social and ethnic groups, especially after WWI and after WWII. Heavily damaged by bombing during World War II, Pula, in the second half of the twentieth century re-blossomed and developed into the largest town in Istria, significant because the two main economic activities: industry, led to shipbuilding, and tourism
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