Thursday Doors 18/1/24: Hum, Croatia 1.

Welcome to the smallest town in the world. I don’t know what all the other really small towns think of this but Hum in the hills of the Istria peninsula is humming: “I’m official.”

If you look at the data, it houses 52 people on 5 square miles (13 km²). It doesn’t sound all that small to me. The town was first mentioned in documents dating from 1102, at which time it was called Cholm which is derived from the Italian name Colmo. A bell and watch tower was built in 1552 as part of the town’s defenses.

When my parents, amore, bestia and I were there last Easter, the day was not made for photography, but the limoncello was good if a bit early and there were doors, which is all that matters on Thursdays. We’ll be back here at least on one other Thursday.

Here we go! The sign points to lunch but it was early.

A house that is hiding its doors and windows.

Here is an interesting door with signs and an inscription in the dialect.

The other half with mysterious letters and father.

A wall window.

Another look at the door.

Orientation.

Museum of Hum Aura we didn’t enter but we did go to their bar on the left.

Just a house.

The bell tower.

The closed door of the church and the sign pointing to the entrance.

Is that it?

When life gives you lemons…

…make limoncello!

Here you can rent a room.

Above the distillery bar Aura which we entered next.

Not to the bar.

To the bar! Not true that dogs cannot enter.

Here we go… Pretty and good.

Happy parents.

Where the family does their distillery. Probably.

The outside sitting area with the offer on the wall. Those 17 wild herbs sound wild.

The last view of the museum.

Post-limoncello bliss. To be continued.

For Thursday Doors challenge hosted by Dan at No Facilities