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Bed & breakfast |3 bedrooms |Sleeps 8

Zupancici in Koper

£unknown / week

4 nights minimum stay

Changeover flexible

5 out of 5

6 reviews | Write a review

Key info  Swimming pool, beach or lakeside relaxation, car essential, private garden, may take pets - please enquire

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About the home

Enchanted with the beauty and serenity of Slovenian Istria, the owners of Flegi B&B bought in 2006 two charming stone houses, rebuilt the guest house as a low energy building above the old cantina and erected a copy of the original second building as a passive house. All priceless original building materials of the old stone houses were preserved, reused and coupled with modern features – air ventilation with heat recuperation, heating via a joint air/water heat pump, as well as using rainwater for toilet flushing. As final touches, a swimming pool and two stonebuilt outdoor kitchens were added – then we opened our doors.

Flegi is ideally suited for closed parties - extended families or a group of friends, who rent all three rooms simultaneusly, thus ensuring relaxation in privacy and enjoying the sole use of cantina, kitchen and pool.


You will merge into the rhythm of the village life and might, come late autumn, even want to participate in olive harvesting. At night, you will hear only nightingales, owls and no cars or traffic noise. The sunny hot days of summer can be spent by the pool or you might prefer driving to the nearest beach, either in Slovenia or in Croatia, for we are located very close to both the Croatian as the Italian border. You might want to explore Venice by boat from Koper, enjoy a game of golf or ride thoroughbreds in Lipica. Autumn and spring are lovely as well sporting mild temperatures - a time to gather mushrooms and wild asparagus, or roam through Istria.

Hikers will love the hilly surroundings reminiscent of Tuscany and Provence. Families can enjoy bathing while escaping crowded public beaches. Bikers and cyclists will return in the evening from daily trips through Istria, cool down in the pool and start a barbeque, amenities fully provided. We will make your mornings enjoyable with generous breakfasts, and offer you our homegrown vegetables and fruits. We aim to make your holiday a real holiday!

Flegi is a low energy house. This means that it is endowed with extraordinary thick heat insulation and air ventilation which, through a heat exchanger, assures you of fresh air without the need to open windows, thus keeping a pleasant inside temperature without the use of conventional airconditioning units. We encourage guests to avoid overheating their premises by cooking in either of two outdoor kitchens, and by closing shutters during direct sunshine. At night, the temperatures drop considerably lower than on the coastline, allowing to cool your rooms by sleeping with windows open - the Istrian way of living.

A typical room temperature at the end of a 35 degrees Celsius very hot day might climb to 25 degrees Celsius, and will drop during the night to a pleasant 20 or 21. If you require a cooler room temperature, you might want to look for premises with AC.

The water temperature in the unheated outdoor pool keeps,due to the mediterranean climate, between 27 and 31 degrees Celsius, thus making heating redundant. On a summer night, mists rise from the pool as the air temperature is considerably lower, offering a romantic midnight swim in the colour illuminated pool. In spring or autumn, the pool temperature varies between 22 and 25 degrees Celsius, depending on sunshine and wind.

In winter, the premises are constantly heated with an energy saving heat pump, the floor heating keeping a wonderfully calm and warm room climate. Interested parties may enquire for a full tour through a low energy house technics and review our statistics on the performance and energy consumption of the neighbouring passive house.

Facilities

Further details indoors:
The interior resembles the typical local Istrian style, reminiscent of Tuscany or Provence. Each room / apartment has a double bed and bathroom, a couchbed is available. As Flegi is a low - energy mansion, there are generous shower compartments in each bathroom but no bathtubs. All bathrooms are endowed with towels, hair drier and soap; bedlinen and dishtowels are provided. Our rooms do not have balconies, therefore you will find your favorite place in the garden, by the pool or in the yard. Internet is free, while there is no TV in the rooms, but it can be watched in the owners' house. You can choose books from our multilingual library or pick your game of cards or social games.

Further details outdoors:
We are located in an inhabited village, and although buildings in Istrian villages typically tend to be crowded together to avoid the winds in winter, we do have a large yard, private parking, private garden, a swimming pool and even a small vegetable garden. Due to the mild climate, the unheated swimming pool can be used May through October.

Further details

While we like housebroken pets who do not disturb other guests or damage the facility, we accept them only on request for a surcharge of 10 EUR per day.

Smoking is permitted outdoors and, if all guests agree, in the cantina, but not in the rooms.

Guests are welcome to use produce from our organic vegetable garden free of charge. Quantities larger than for everyday family cooking can be bought in the village, just as extra virgin olive oil and domestic wine.

Two bicycles are available free of charge, please bring your own helmets.

Bikers welcome! There are three bikers in the family, small repairs or simple maintenance can be done on site, while there is a full service and bike rental in Koper. The roads in Istria are excellent, season starts in February and may last till December - no sand on the road - please follow the weather on our weather station Flegi and enquire by e-mail!

Flegi is built on three terraces - entry yard, kitchen and dining, swimming and sunbathing. While stone stairs from one terrace to another were endowed with ramps for strollers or bikes, wheelchair users might need assistance and will find the doorways definitely too narrow to pass through. Unfortunately, due to zoning regulations in the natural reservate, the rather cozy floorplans did not allow for a better solution.

We accept pets only on request - please do enquire for a surcharge of 10 EUR per day.

Conditions

We charge a 30% price increase for stays shorter than 4 nights, but grant a discount of 10% for rental of the whole guesthouse and another 10% for stays longer than 7 nights.

We are happy to suggest trips, tours and places to eat!

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Flegi - Istrian B&B in low energy house with pool

 

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Outdoor stone kitchen

 

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Dining or playing games in 200 year old stone cantina

 

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Interior of Room 2 - Flegi B&B

The Primorska region

The region, squeezed between Italy and Croatia, is divided into coast and picturesque inland, both blessed with a mild mediterranean climate but cursed in wintertime with the Bora wind, whose positive consequences are excellent prosciuttos and hams, procured by drying in this wind.

In the north, the inland with carstian features like underground caves cuts along the valley of the Soca river deep into the heart of the Julian Alps, and in the south it continues into the Istrian peninsula of neighbouring Croatia. It is possible to enjoy both skiing in the Alps and swimming in the sea all in one day.

Historically, the area was influenced by the Venetian republic, the Italians and the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, emerging after World War II as part of Yugoslavia, to be divided between Slovenia and Croatia in the early 1990ies. Regardless of nationality, the inhabitants consider themselves Istrians, and speak or at least understand all three languages common to the area - Slovenian, Italian and Croatian.

Economically, the region survived on fishing and agriculture, selling local produce to the cities of Triest and Koper. Today, fishing and excellent wineries are less important to the wellbeing of inhabitants than local industries and tourism.

Places of interest are plenty in all three countries and range from natural gems - the cave of Postojna, the Soca valley, the Dragonja natural reservate to a heaven for golfers and horse lovers in Lipica, to Venice and further to the north the Italian Dolomites and lakes.

The area also enjoys great popularity among hikers, cyclists and bikers as snow is a rarity, short winters are mild, local roads are curvy yet transparent and the area offers innumerable vistas and panoramas as well as tasty and light local cuisine.

The Koper / Zupancici area

Župancici, locally known as Flegi, is a small village of 34 people, 5 dogs, a few chickens and a horse, overlooking the valley of the Rokava creek, part of the Dragonja natural reservate. The area is much reminiscent of Tuscany or Provence, featuring olive tree and fruits orchards as well as vineyards and the famous salt fields of Secovlje, one of several must-sees.

While remote when considering the nightly silence and the narrow, partly unpaved road (a reminder of a storm in 2010 during which the humble creek Rokava flooded the valley and tore off parts of the pavement), it is only 15 drive minutes away from the shopping centres of Koper and a little more from the other tourist beach centres – Izola, Portorož, Strunjan and Piran.

A lot of natural beauty to explore, excellent inns to visit and plenty of good local wine and olive oil will appeal to all who would like to switch off in excellent living standards with a swimming pool while merging into a typical Istrian village, yet wishing to be close to all amenities of a city.

How to get there

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By air: several airports are within easy reach - the Trieste Airport being the closest within 45 driving minutes, followed by Ljubljana, Pula and Rijeka airports, all within a 90 minutes drive, as well as Zagreb and Venice airports, a little less than 3 hours of driving away.

By car: from Koper highway, take exit to Pula; on third traffic light, follow direction Vanganel, Marezige to the left. Follow the road for 7,5 km through several roundabaouts, through village Vanganel and uphill till crossing in village Babici. There, follow sign for Župancici straight down into the Rokava valley. After three turns, follow another sign for Župancici and follow the road by the river. After a few km, follow sign for Župancici right into the village above you.

By train: arrive in Koper, call for our pick up service or let us arrange a car hire.

Activities near Koper

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17 Mar 2013

“Relaxing, Charming and Unforgettable” The best vacations are the ones you can not forget and return in your memories. Slovenia is an incredible vacation spot. It is a small country but with a huge heart and endless activities. We... more

12 Mar 2013

“A wonderful place to spend a relaxing break even out of season.” We were not new to Flegi, but had already enjoyed a couple of summer vacations there. So this year we decided to take a short break out of season. We were blessed with winter sunshine and clear blue... more

02 Aug 2012

“very nice house and very nice people” the house is in very good condition and the owners are very nice and helpfull, the garden is to steep and small for children to play, the pool is always opened, so you have towatch the the children... more Response: Unfortunately, you are correct that our location is not ideal for a family who wanted to be in the vicinity of Trieste and would be happier with amenities more designed for small kids. We were sorry... more

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01 Dec 2011

“Probably the most relaxing holiday I've ever had!” Our first trip to Slovenia and what a great experience. It started with the journey by car. We had been given directions by Natasa, the owner and they proved to be very easy to follow. On arrival we... more Response: My dear friends, thank you for leaving such a nice comment. We are very happy that you had a good vacation in Flegi last year and were honoured to have had the pleasure of your company again this... more

28 Nov 2011

“Fabulous!!” We stayed one night at this B&B in Flegi, Slovenia in August of 2011 on our way from Austria to a holiday for a week in Croatia. We were looking for somewhere to rest before we crossed the border... more Response: Dear family, it was really a shame that we were booked on your way back and could not accommodate you. So it was the least we could do to help arrange your return trip to your satisfaction. We are... more

28 Nov 2011

“Great place to stay! If you go to Slovenia, go to this B&B!” We had a great time at Flegi: beautiful room and bathroom, well decorated and both spacious. Very nice host: we had a lovely stay with her and her family. The location is green and quiet and we... more Response: So nice of you to post this comment, although we must say that the pleasure was all ours. It was your appreciation that made us decide to enlarge the garden with organic vegetables. So it is really... more

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Rental prices

Prices for group size 2
Period	From	To	Weekly	Nightly rate		Minimum  stay
				Weekday	Weekend
all year, price for apt	4 Jul 12	1 Jan 13	588£ 588	110£ 110	110£ 110	4 Nights

Prices for group size 4
Period	From	To	Weekly	Nightly rate		Minimum  stay
				Weekday	Weekend
all year, price for room	4 Jul 12	1 Jan 13	672£ 672	125£ 125	125£ 125	4 Nights

Prices for group size 8
Period	From	To	Weekly	Nightly rate		Minimum  stay
				Weekday	Weekend
all year, whole property	4 Jul 12	1 Jan 13	1680£ 1680	312£ 312	312£ 312	4 Nights

The property's weekend rates apply to: Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights

NB: Prices may be subject to change at the advertiser's discretion.

Rates include VAT, tourist tax, and unlimited use of pool, outdoor kitchen and other amenities except generous breakfast, at an additional charge of 5 EUR per person. We prefer payment through bank or cash.

Stays shorter than 4 days may be accepted but are additionally charged at 30% increase of quoted prices. For stays longer than 1 week days, a discount of 10% is granted. For rentals of the whole guesthouse (all 3 units), we grant an additional 10% discount.

Pets are accepted only by request for a surcharge of 10 EUR per day, please enquire with the owner.

Please enquire for rates for 6 persons.

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