STOLJEĆA ISTARSKIH ŠUMA: OD DAVNIH SPOMENA DO SUVREMENOG DOBA
ISTRIAN WOODS THROUGH PASSED CENTURIES: FROM THE ANCIENT MEMORIES TO OUR TIME

Summary/Abstract: In analyzing numerous fragments from archival materials and bibliography, the author of this contribution described the most known Istrian woods: forests of Montona, Siana and Leme, Cornaria, Vidorno and Lisignamoro. By area, some of them were large, other were small. In the past times, Istrian woods were exploited in different ways and from remote ages were remembered the most by high-quality wood, particularly in the period of Venetian government (from the 12th to the 18th century), which proclaimed publicly a very precise laws for their protection and conservancy and very severe punishments for the violators. During the Austrian (1797 – 1918) and the Italian (1918 – 1943) government Istrian woods were highly promoted, so a considerable number of ordinances and boundary stones are related to that period of Istrian history. In Venetian era the Motovun Forest, as the largest in Istria and also one of the most significant in whole state territory, was very important, while during the Austrian government Šijana Forest was famous. The latter was regulated as a park and walking zone for the upper classes coming there by coach and after by tram. All Istrian woods were not marked by boundary stones, but for those described in this contribution the marks on the ground are visible at present time and some of them are almost completely conserved. Although on quite different bases, the current legislation regulates taking care of Istrian woods in our days too, in order to conserve them the more possible for the coming generations.

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