Tito and Istria

Josip Broz Tito maintained cordial relations with his neighbors, received representatives of social and political organizations and communities. He met the people of Istria by staying on their peninsula; he often visited working organizations, schools, hospitals, attended cultural events and national assemblies.

Tito first visited the island Vanga in 1952, rowing in a canoe. After that, the process of grubbing out the island had started, soon enough different facilities and common areas were formed: straw gazebo, Indonesian fisherman's salon, Slovene room, kitchen with pantry and other amenities. Untouched vegetation dominated by bamboo and two gardens surround an office near a workshop and a photographic laboratory. The southern part of the island is characterized by Mediterranean vegetation, where you can find a garden, an orchard, grape vines and tangerines, and the old and new basement.



Tito on Brijuni

Tito liked to improve Brijuni. Immediately after his arrival, an intensive renovation and development of the islands began. The consequences of the bombing were repaired, stolen inventory was replaced, new water pipeline and Fažana-Brijuni electric cables were placed, hotels and villas were renovated, forests were cleaned and parks landscaped, barren land was afforested, cultural monuments were protected and zoos included new animals. Bombing damaged hotels “Neptune I“ and “Neptune II”, which were completely destroyed. In 1961, hotel “Istra” was built on the foundations of “Neptune II”. & nbsp;

On Brijuni, Tito was not only a host and an interlocutor to statesmen, politicians and diplomats, but to many public and cultural figures (Valentina Tereshkova, Che Guevara, Alberto Moravia, Mario del Monaco, Sofia Loren, Carlo Ponti, Gina Lollobrigida, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and many people from Yugoslavia and abroad).



Tito married three times. He had three children with his first wife Pelagija Belousova: Žarko, and Zlatica and Hinko who died young. In the second marriage with Herta Haas his son Mišo was born, and he had no children with Jovanka Budisavljević. Altogether, Tito had two sons, six grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.

