Hotel Kaštel is situated on top of the Motovun hill. The largest tourist accommodation in the hilltown, it has more than thirty rooms. As there is hardly any place for parking around the hotel, tourists are brought to its door by the hotel van. Most of them cannot walk up the hill, let alone carry their own luggage. So, the van goes all the way up Gradiziol, across the lower square, through the archway leading to the upper square, to the hotel door between twenty and thirty times a day. As well the other way around each and every time. During lunch and dinner, when the three restaurants on the lower square are full, the van passes by at least ten times. There are many solutions to this annoying distraction, but all of them would involve touching the cultural heritage. For instance, an elevator for both passengers and freight could be attached to the town walls next to the hotel. Similarly, a fernicular could ferry the tourist from further down the hill. All this is out of the question, for cultural heritage would be in jeopardy. The hotel van is just fine from the vantage point of the authorities concerned with such lofty issues. As far as they are concerned, it could trundle up and down the hill all day long. By now, the cobblestones all around Motovun are in dire shape, but they are not a part of the cultural heritage for some strange reason. When it comes to idiocy, Istria is the land of plenty. Sorry, Croatia.