Buzet - Bigatto Palace and Regional Museum

In the northern interior of Croatian Istria, Buzet occupies a hill above the fertile Mirna valley. Its identity is shaped by a fortified historic core on the hill and the newer Fontana district below. Views across the valley and the meeting of Venetian civic monuments with local domestic architecture give it a distinctive character. The town’s history is now interpreted by the Regional Museum in one of the Old Town palaces.

Bigatto Palace, built in 1639 in Buzet's Old Town, now houses the Regional Museum. Its façade is recognised by the stone portal and decorative framing around the central openings.

The palace contains an archaeological collection with a lapidarium, an ethnological collection with traditional dress, a historic Buzet kitchen, a collection of agricultural tools and a gallery for temporary exhibitions.

The museum presents archaeological and ethnological collections, a lapidarium, an old Buzet kitchen and agricultural and craft tools. A distinctive emblem is the early medieval Buzet earring associated with northern Istria.