Brovinje (Italian: Brovigne) is a small settlement/hamlet, in Istria County in Croatia,[3] with a little more than 50 houses in 1950.

Overlooking the Gulf of Kvarner in the northern Adriatic Sea including the island of Croatian: Cres, Italian: Cherso.

Around 1824 the Littoral was reorganized into two subdivisions: Istria with the capitol German: Mitterburg, Italian: Pisino, Croatian: Pazin and Gorizia with Trieste and its immediate surroundings under the direct control of the crown and separate from the local administrative structure.

In the Albona territory, called Labinština, one of these was the township of Italian: Cerovizza Croatian: Cerovica (Istria).

The small country chapel of Croatian: Sv.Ivana Krstitelja, Italian: San Giovanni Battista is just outside the hamlet Brovinje and it is only used each year on August 29, the feast of the Saint.

Inside the small chapel there is a fresco of St. Anthony of Padua behind the marble altar.

The house was lived by the family who worked the land until the early 1900.Thumbnail:People of Brovinje attended the Parish church of St. Lucia {lang-it|(delle lacrime)} (of the tears) in the hamlet of Skitača and the Parish church of St. Lovreč Labinski in the hamlet of St. Lovreč Labinski.

Due to the war between the Venice Republic and Austria-Hungary Empire, many people living in the countryside left for the cities for safety.

The migration in the 16th, 17th and 18th century brought to the depopulated Istria a new people, the Slavs (Croats, Serbs, etc.)

Greeks, Jews, to colonize and clean the countryside, from southern places of the Venice Republic.