Raša (Italian: Arsia) is a town known as the "youngest city in Croatia" and the administrative centre of the same-named municipality in the inner part of the Raška Inlet in the south-eastern part of Istria, Croatia. Raša lies 4.5 km southwest of Labin at an elevation of 10 m.
Situated in the valley of the Krapanski Brook (a tributary of the river Raša), the first pit of the Raša coal basin was opened near the former village of Krapan in 1785. Ori...
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Raša (Italian: Arsia) is a town known as the "youngest city in Croatia" and the administrative centre of the same-named municipality in the inner part of the Raška Inlet in the south-eastern part of Istria, Croatia. Raša lies 4.5 km southwest of Labin at an elevation of 10 m.
Situated in the valley of the Krapanski Brook (a tributary of the river Raša), the first pit of the Raša coal basin was opened near the former village of Krapan in 1785. Originally a swamp, the valley around the Raša was gradually drained and improved to gain arable land for farming and building a town near the expanding coal mine operations.
Raša was built as a "new town" during 1936-1937 as part of Mussolini's urban colonization of Istria and other Italian territories. Planned and designed along rationalist principles by architect, Gustavo Pulitzer-Finali from Trieste, Italy, the mining town is organized along a linear axis connecting Upper and Lower Raša. Lower Raša comprises houses for ordinary miners set...
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