It is located in the southernmost tip of the Labinština (Italian: L'Albonese) peninsula in Istria County in Croatia.

In the English: District of Labin[5] /Italian: Distretto di Albona[6] this, as yet, unsettled was called Punta Cromatz.

[citation needed] All the beaches consist of small rounded flat stones of many different colors.

[10] This was the spot where a flat bottom boat called Trabacula came to load logs of timber for Trieste and Venice.

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1 Albona cenni storici Statuto Municipale della Citta d'Albona del A'1341 (Published by Societa del Gabinetto di Minerva in Trieste 1870) In the early 1900 each of the properties of the area near the coast, where the future cement operation was to be built, were bought up by the Sicilian Industrialist, Mr. Conigliero, from the society S.P.E.M.A "Societa Potland e Marna Albona".

The dwellings were built by the beach area which the natives called Dobro thus the hamlet of Dobra was born.

Outside the front door of the building was the bell which let the teacher signal the children to come in the classroom.

One of these classrooms was the house, the first one in Koromačno, which was located right across from the one room schoolhouse and on the upper side of the road.

Next to the hamlet-port of Koromačno, the cement factory built a group of buildings with multiple apartments in each.

These modern buildings, in 1935–40, were made specifically for the cement factory workers and families which migrated to the area.

The need for classroom space made it necessary to occupy some of these empty apartments as the children population increased.

From Brovinje going east and north is the hamlet of Skitača where the parish church of St Lucia delle lacrime, is still standing since the year 1616.

From Brovinje going west is the hamlet of Viškovići and Diminići where the church of Sv Lovreč Labinski still standing since the 17th century.

After the second World War automation caused jobs to disappear to a minimum at the end of the 20th century.The antique signaling tower Turan, also called Ivanac and St. Giovanni in Besca, was demolished in 1992 by the cement factory's progress in mining the quarry.

These antique signaling towers were constructed under the Roman Empire and also used under the Venice Republic all along the coast and on high hills inland.

The small country chapel of the 14th or 15th century called Italian: St. Giovanni Battista or Croatian: Sv.

The Abbey consisted of a two story house, to the rear a separate building with rooms which each friar occupied.

The company built a ship docking area to load the cement and to unload the coal, on which the factory operated.