The owner is disappointed with the business climate.
The impressive aromatic and medicinal herb theme park “Histria Aromatica” on Pižanovac hill near Golaš is being sold for 12 million euros, reports Glas Istre on August 29, 2018.
With this asking price, the agro-touristic complex, featuring an educational centre and an ethnobotanics museum, is currently one of the most valuable properties in Croatia offered for sale.
The figure might sound unrealistic, but the asking price is understandable if you take into account that it includes a property covering about 25 hectares of land, a fully cultivated hill with terraced fields, and attractive architectural buildings on top of a hill overlooking the Rovinj coastline.
The owner Boris Filipaj, after years of searching for the right location to realize his dream, bought the land in 2005 and, he says, invested four million euro in it.
“Yes, it is true I am selling my ‘child!’ Why? Because nothing can function in Croatia, even here in Istria. In the 1990s, I had an idea to accomplish an impossible mission. But ordinary projects are destined to fall here. Such projects are always interesting to the media while they are being developed, but when it should all finally come to life, then it is a nightmare. Everything is organised wrongly,” said Filipaj, who is the founder of the successful company Bioaromatica from Zagreb for the production of toiletries and cosmetic products.
According to the real estate agency’s data, the park covers 10 acres under the ownership and 13 hectares under concession, cultivated land with lavender, sage, marigold, rosemary and orchards, a large olive grove and a vineyard, and vegetable gardens with more than 300 spices.
At the top of Pižanovac hill, there are three buildings covering a thousand square metres, surrounding a square with a fountain, including a restaurant with a large terrace. There are also a souvenir shop, a presentation hall, a laboratory and a museum of ethnobotanicals.
Translated from Glas Istre (reported by Zvjezdan Strahinja).
