It is a typical hilltop village with stone houses and narrow streets situated 173 metres above Mošćenička Draga.

Besides the old St. Andrew church, places of interest are the local ethnographic museum and an old olive extraction mill.

In such an enclosed environment, space is precious and all houses are built close to one another, separated by narrow streets and sometimes linked by covered passages.

Istria was conquered by the Romans after two military campaigns in 177 BC, calling the region Liburnia, part of the province of Dalmatia.

Istria was annexed by the Franks during the reign of Pepin the Short in 789, But Liburnia became part of the State of Croatia.

The village was for the first time mentioned as an independent community with its own statute in 1374 in the testament of Count Ugona of Duina, written in German.

Mošćenice came under the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III when the Counts of Walse transferred their estate to him.

The two side altars are dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary (with statues of Saint Dominic and St. Catherine of Siena) and to St. Francis.