In Višnjan every stone, every town corner will speak about its history and every family can tell you a legend or a true story about this small town. Passing along the cobblestone street at the foot of the hill, you will see the Gothic chapel of St. Anthony the Abbot (Sv. Anton) from the 15th century. This street leads you to the town gate decorated with a relief of the Venetian lion from 1517 with the town’s pride hiding behind it - the old town square. Partly surrounded by town walls built in the 13th and 14th century the square is adorned by a 27 meter high bell-tower, 18th century Municipal loggia, water-well and the Parish church of SS. Quiricus and Julita (Sv. Kvirik i Julita) dating from the 19th century. Also in Višnjan you will find the world’s second most successful observatory in discovering and monitoring of asteroids. In 2019 this small observatory did more than half of the total discovery and monitoring work associated with small astronomical objects passing by the Earth (NEO – Near Earth Objects). This puts it ahead of such research giants as the American army and European space agency.