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Lorun is an Antiquity archaeological site located next to the planned built tourist resort of Červar Porta. The remains of a Roman country villa, an estate consisting of the ceramics workshop, an oil mill and a water cistern were found, while the oldest villa doors coincide with the year 46 BC, the time of the establishment of the Poreč colony under the Caesar. Sisenna Statilie Tauro, a Roman consul for as many as 16 years, owned the estate in the 1st century AD. He was the one who had probably invested in the construction of the economic facilities. Sisienna was an influential man of the time and one of the largest estate owners on the Istrian peninsula. After he had died, the estate first fell under the governance of Kalvia Krispilina, a woman known for her numerous scandals on the court of Nero, and then became a part of the Emperor's agricultural good covering the entire area of Tar and Vabriga.
The names of both these previous owners were confirmed by numerous amphora remains bearing their seals. The Červar villa was greatly expanded during Emperor Tiberius, when the Poreč area and the Červar field became a part of a large agricultural complex for growing and processing olives and grapes. The ceramics workshop, which ovens are the best explored on the Adriatic, closed down in the end of the 1st century. The oil mill might have been operational until the barbarians and the Slavs broke in. They used one of its parts as an oven. The site today is an archaeological park with panels, explanations and photographs of explored facilities, from ceramic ovens to the cistern.
References:The Clementinum is a historic complex of buildings in Prague. Until recently the complex hosted the National, University and Technical libraries, the City Library also being located nearby on Mariánské Náměstí. The Technical library and the Municipal library have moved to the Prague National Technical Library at Technická 6 since 2009. It is currently in use as the National Library of the Czech Republic.
Its history dates from the existence of a chapel dedicated to Saint Clement in the 11th century. A Dominican monastery was founded in the medieval period, which was transformed in 1556 to a Jesuit college. In 1622 the Jesuits transferred the library of Charles University to the Klementinum, and the college was merged with the University in 1654. The Jesuits remained until 1773, when the Klementinum was established as an observatory, library, and university by the Empress Maria Theresa of Austria.