Piran, the old seaport lies at the end of the Piran peninsula, a headland stretching between the bays of Piran and Strunjan reaching as far as the Cape Madonna. According to the ancient scientists, the name Piran seems to have arisen from the celtic word ‘bior-dun’, meaning “place on the hill”. Younger sources see it’s explication in the greec word “pyr” – the fire, since the ancient settlement mainly served as a lighthouse for the ships of the neighbouring greec colony Aegidia close to today’s Koper. The city with its narrow alleys, its tightly stringed buildings, ascending steplike from the coastline has kept its medieval layout, its entire adjacencies defining its typical character of the Mediterranean.


Tourist-Info-Center,
Tartinijev trg 2, 6330 Piran
Telefon: 00 386 5 673 02 20
e-Mail: ticpi(at)portoroz.si

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