Sveti Petar u Šumi San Pietro in Selve
Municipality
Sveti Petar u Šumi Municipality
Train station
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Sveti Petar u Šumi
Coordinates: 45°11′N 13°52′E / 45.183°N 13.867°E / 45.183; 13.867
Country	Croatia
County	Istria County
Government
• Mayor	Mario Bratulić (HDZ)
Area [1]
• Municipality	5.5 sq mi (14.2 km2)
• Urban	5.5 sq mi (14.2 km2)
Population  (2021)[2]
• Municipality	1,051
• Density	190/sq mi (74/km2)
• Urban	1,051
• Urban density	190/sq mi (74/km2)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	52404 Sveti Petar u Šumi
Area code	052
Website	svpetarusumi.hr

Sveti Petar u Šumi (Italian: San Pietro in Selve; archaic German: Sankt Peter im Walde) is a village and municipality (općina) in Istria County, Croatia.

It is located within the centre of the Istrian peninsula near the regional capital Pazin, about 6 km (3.7 mi) northwest of Žminj.

The settlement in the March of Istria arose around the Benedictine Saint Peter and Paul Abbey, probably founded in the 1130s and first mentioned about 1174/76. The abandoned monastery was dedicated to the Order of Saint Paul the First Hermit by the Habsburg emperor Frederick III with the consent of Pope Pius II in 1459. The present-day Baroque monastery complex was finished in 1731. The Pauline abbey was dissolved by Emperor Joseph II in 1782 but re-established in 1993.

According to the 2021 census, its population was 1,051.^[2] The population was 1,065 (as of the 2011 census).^[3]

• (in Croatian) Municipal site
• Central Istria Tourist Board
• (in Croatian) Pauline Abbey Archived 2014-07-14 at the Wayback Machine