25 Million Euro Investment Awaits Pula, Plans Stretch Back to Austro-Hungary

Lauren Simmonds

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February the 3rd, 2025 – A 25 million euro investment awaits the beautiful Istrian city of Pula, and it’s something the city has been waiting for since the rule of Austro-Hungary.

A vast chasm of time (and regimes) has passed since the reign of the one mighty Austro-Hungarian Empire over Croatia. This investment in Pula might just take the cake when it comes to this country’s infamous snail’s pace, but it’s finally on the horizon.

As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, the renovation of the Pula breakwater is set to finally begin after many decades of waiting. The project includes reconstruction, as well as an extension of 140 metres in total. This large investment in Pula is worth over 25 million euros, and everything should be completed in two years.

The Pula breakwater sits at between 25 and 35 metres deep, is currently 1,200 meters long, and is a little more than 70 centimetres wide. It’s also suffered damage and has been eroded by the endless march of time.

Dilapidated and potentially dangerous, it currently doesn’t properly fulfill its function as a port guard. We don’t have long to wait at all now (despite having waited since the time of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until now), as in May, it will finally be renovated.

“By combining the breakwater into a single structure and connecting the two arms together, it would provide greater protection for the Pula Bay. It will being relief to all of the stakeholders who carry out their activities there, and for the entire City of Pula,” stated Dalibor Brnos, director of the Pula County Port Authority.

Before this breakwater existed, the sea could actually reach as far as Pula’s famous, ancient Arch of Sergii.

At the time of construction, 115 long years ago, it was one of the largest investments in maritime infrastructure, and it remains so today.

“Without the help of EU funds, the government, the appropriate ministry and the county, we simply couldn’t have done it on our own. But here we are, all together – 18 million euros in grants, 5 million euros from the Ministry of Maritime Affairs, Transport and Infrastructure, and over 3 million from Istria County. All together, we managed to close this financial construction”, revealed Brnos.

The reconstruction and expansion in this investment in Pula will increase overall functionality levels, as well as strengthen the role of the Port of Pula in the entire region.

“In this way, the reconstruction and expansion will provide the Pula Bay and the City of Pula with a much higher quality security aspect. On the other hand, it will offer much better maritime capabilities of the bay itself, which means a new driving force, both for people and for the economy”, said Boris Miletić, Istria County’s prefect.

By May 2027, the Pula breakwater should finally be completed – in the form that was initially planned way back in the Austro-Hungarian era, writes HRT.

 

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