Izola
Island or Izola (in Izola Slovenia) is a town of 16,000 [1] inhabitants of southwestern Slovenia, along the Adriatic coast.
Originally the northern Adriatic island (hence the name), was first colonized by the Romans, who built a port in Haliaetum, south-west of the city.
During the Middle Ages was controlled by the Republic of Venice.
Its economic base was severely damaged when Trieste became the main port in the region and the plague struck in the sixteenth century.
During the French occupation in the early nineteenth century, the city walls were torn down and used to fill the channel separating the island from the mainland.
It was a town of culture and language in Italian majority population until the forced mass between the 1953-1956 and the majority of its population, following the London Memorandum of 1954 which granted the Yugoslav town administration. From this it was finally annexed agreements with the Italian-Yugoslav Treaty of Osimo in 1975.
Among the most significant buildings of the town are reported: the Cathedral (XVI century), with paintings of Venetian art (including a deposition of Palma the Younger and a St. Sebastian by Irene da Spilimbergo and palace Besenghi (second half of the eighteenth century) .
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