Pazin is a town located in the center of Istria, the largest peninsula in Croatia. Pazin is the administrative center of the area that spreads outside the town itself and includes predominantly rural settlements such as: Beram, Grdoselo, Kascerga, Krsikla, Lindar, Stari Pazin, Trviz, Zabrezani, Zamask i Zarecje. Pazin has a long and rich history whose life traces are dated about 1,500 B.C. witnessed by the remains of the ceramics left near the river Pazincica. From that moment almost 2500 years had passed until Pazin was mentioned for the first time in the deed of donation of the emperor Otto II as „Castrum Pisinum“ in 983. In the 12th century, Castle Pazin became the administrative center of the Istrian estate of Counts Goricki. After Goricki family ceased to exist in 1374, Pazin bacame part of the Habsburg family estate, whose properties since 1379 were called Pazin County. The establishment of the county in central Istria ran parallel with the Venetian invasion of the coastal towns of southern Istria and the valley of the Mirna river. The Pazin Castle throughout that long unstable period was the most important imperial fort in Istria. Pazin has a rich cultural and historical heritage that has been created throughout the centuries, therefore numerous sights such as church St. Nicholas, the bell tower of St. Nicholas, Pazin Castle, Franciscan Monastery and many others can be found. In the 19th century Pazin became one of the centers of Croatian cultural renaissance, which led to the foundation of the library, the Croatian high school and the community center which in the future times has proved to be very important.