UMAG / NOVIGRAD
The Umag-Novigrad cluster is located in the Croatian Adriatic, in the northwestern part of the Istria Peninsula. It is located on the very boarder with Slovenia, and in close vicinity to Italy and Austria, so it can truly be said that it serves as a bond between the Mediterranean and Central Europe.
FACILITIES
As the host of the large ATP tournament and a region with more than 94 tennis courts, North-Western Istria is Croatia’s leading tennis destination. This region for decades has been attracting thousands of tennis amateurs, trainers and operatives, as well as professional players of the highest rank, and has hosted many tournaments.
UMAG
Umag has 66 tennis courts: 57 outdoor clay courts, 4 indoor clay courts and 5 hard courts. They are excellently located – by the sea and close to the hotels, villas and apartments. They are surrounded by pine forest and are harmoniously included in the environment. Some of them are covered and most have special seating space.
NOVIGRAD
Novigrad has 23 clay courts, 17 of which are located in close proximity to the hotels Maestral and Laguna, 4 are in Karpinjan and 2 within the Camping Park Mareda, located 4 km from Novigrad.
ACCOMODATION RECOMENDATION
Hotel Sol Garden Istra ****
Thanks to indoor and outdoor tennis courts, other services related to the white sport and all other high quality services of a reliable hotel, it is the perfect choice for a tennis holiday and recreation during long sunny days.
Hotel Maestral ****
Maestral, is very much a sports hotel. Football and other courts are located by the hotel, which makes it especially enticing to individual players and groups. It is functional, well organized and it also attracts cyclists, tennis players, handball players and canoeists.
EXPLORE AREA
AQUAPARK – ISTRALANDIA
This interesting aquatic world stretches over 81.000 m2, it is only five kilometres away from the coast and has a great geostrategic location at the exit of the Istrian Ypsilon highway (exit Nova Vas), between Novigrad and Brtonigla.
OLIVE OIL ROADS
The olive oil roads of Istria will take you to some of the most outstanding olive oils in the world. Istria’s olive oils were highly valued even in the time of the Roman Empire. Marcus Valerius Martial, writer of epigrams who lived in the first century, paid tribute to Istria’s olive oils by exclaiming that his native Cordoba was “as perfect as the oil of Istria”.
LOCATION
Ljubljana 150km
Venice 200km
Zagreb 270km
Graz 320km
Milan 515km