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If in Bale / Valle you leave your car, motorcycle, or bike in the large parking area beneath the local church, you will be welcomed by the marker described here.
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Arrival
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As shown by my raw translation, nothing is really equal between the two linguistic versions, besides the signature of the municipality of Bale / Valle. Both of my translations keeping very close to the original texts are intended to prove that. But obviously both versions want to express the same thing, i. e. Waste Dumping Forbidden. In any (official) language, however, there are manners of speaking that have just become a habit.
You can see such markers throughout the world and it would not be worth while speaking of them if there were not the little Istrian peculiarity that even speaking of refuse they use two languages. Bale / Valle is one of the coastal Istrian towns in which Croatian-Italian bilingualism was officially decreed in order to protect the Italian minority (here after all nearly 23 %). Nowadays this minority is officially represented by the Unione italiana (CNI). For more information on this institution and some others, see the inscriptions of Rovinj / Rovigno under Former Granary (German). If the marker does not contain a version written in Istriot as the third local language, this is due to the fact that that language is mostly restrained to oral speech and that it is often considered as a variant of the Italian language so that it has no official state.
You will find more photos of Bale / Valle under Walking Through Bale / Valle.
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Internet
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In the English Wikipedia. |
Encyclopaedic article on Croatia. |
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In the English Wikipedia. |
Encyclopaedic article on Istria. |
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Official site of the village of Bale / Valle (in Croatian, Italian, and English). |
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In the English Wikipedia. |
Short encyclopaedic article on the Istrian locality of Bale / Valle. |
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In kroat. Wikipedia. |
Short encyclopaedic article on the Istrian locality of Bale / Valle. |
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In google.maps. |
Zoomable city map of Bale / Valle. |
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In the English Wikipedia. |
Short encyclopaedic article on the Istriot language, with a comparing Italian-Istriot Text. |
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In the English Wikipedia. |
Detailed encyclopaedic article on the use of the Italian language in Istria. |
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In the English Wikipedia. |
Detailed encyclopaedic article on the Italians living in Istria. |
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Official site of the Unione italiana, which is the official organisation defending the rights of the Italians living in Istria (only in Italian). |
Arrival by Public Transport
For the arrival in Bale / Valle, see Inscriptions of Bale / Valle.
Simply drive down to large parking area beneath the local church, which you can see from afar. Looking from the parking area in the direction of the church you will see the marker described here.
Indications concerning the arrival correspond to our personal knowledge or even experience, but we cannot assume any responsibility for their rightness. When you are reading this page, things may have changed in reality.
Hans-Rudolf Hower, 2014
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