Walking around with Tartini - Portorož

Giuseppe Tartini 1692–1770

Welcome to my hometown, one of the most beautiful towns on the Adriatic coast. Not far away from here, there is a cluster of a thousand tiny houses resting on a peninsula as if on an old ship.

The town got rich by selling white gold to the Venetian Republic and Austrian Empire; that is why the townspeople say that Piran grew on salt.

This is where I spent my youth with peaceful and strong waves, with sweet salt flower, olive trees and the diverse Istrian culture, which left a mark on my muse and helped chisel out the Maestro of Nations.

1 Tartini's birth house

I was born in this house, vivacious and ingenious by nature.

2 Baptistery

In the old register of the parish of Piran it is written that I was baptised on the 8th of April 1692.

3 First steps in the world of music

Monks of the order of Saint Philip Neri in the nearby church of St Anthony taught me to read and to write.

4 Academy of virtuosi

The cultural townsmen of Piran gathered in the Academy of virtuosi in Piran.

5 Discovering the world

I travelled across Europe, improved my playing of the violin in the Minorite monastery in Assisi, and composed and taught in Ancona, Venice, Prague and again in Padua as a first violin and concert master.