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Brtonigla is a small town and municipality located on the regional road Buje - Novigrad of the Istrian Peninsula in Croatia. It has a relatively small population (cca. 1800 inhabitants) which number increases during the summer time due to a large number of summer apartments for tourist reasons. The population is mostly oriented towards agriculture, especially viniculture and olive oil production.
Due to the closeness of the Slovenian and the Italian borders and insufficient job opportunities a substantial number of people work in Slovenia and Italy and commute on daily bases.
Only in 1993 Brtonigla was established as an autonomous municipality, due to that fact and as a result of the recent war in the former Yugoslavia, the territory was underdeveloped, therefore in the last 13 years our community has been working on several projects in an effort to resolve various infrastructural problems, as well as providing a policy that foster job opportunities and placements for its population.
In the year 2000 IMO International Relationship Institute carried out a Study of strategic development of the Municipality of Brtonigla which defined the strategic issues of future development as:
- tourism and agriculture
- small entrepreneurship
- protection of environment and development of the infrastructure
- education, sports and culture.

Last updated: 03.07.2008