Motovun is an ideal excursion site with a good offer, appealing to tourists which send their summer vacations on west and east coast of Istra…. His atractivness lies in medieval ambient (ring-shaped walls and two half-ring-shaped walls) and the view of vineyards and the forest of Motovun, which is categorized as park-forest. Motovun is an ideal excursion site with a good offer, appealing to tourists which send their summer vacations on west and east coast of Istra. In the town there is a hotel and a couple of gastronomical facilities. The surroundings are great for hiking through the forest of Motovun, where you can find truffles, the gastronomical speciality, or through vineyards on the south-west slopes of the hill, and hunting as well as cycling. In that vinegrowing area grows motovunian teran, pinot and malvazia. In part of the settlement, called Kanal, from 1903. to modern days there is a cattle fare every third monday in the month. Motovun is connected to the legend about the giant Veli Jože, based on which Vladimir Nazor wrote a novel. Motovun is one of the examples of istrian settlements of acropolitan look and belongs to the more visited parts of central Istra.