Štrped

Štrped (Italian: Sterpeto) is a village in Istria, Croatia, situated at the base of the Ćićarija range. Ecclesiastically, it is under the Buzet parish.

== Architecture == Its spiritual centre is the Sv. Duh church, located 1 km north of Štrped in an eponymous hamlet. It was built in three phases. The first phase was a 13th century Romanesque aisleless church of which a portal with stone lunette is all that remains. The second phase finished in the year 1500 and involved the addition of a late Gothic polygonal sacristy with a pointed vault. The third phase saw the nave covered with a Baroque roof and the addition of a semicircular loggia. Among the mason's marks on the outer side of the apse is that of the "Carniolan Master", also responsible for Sv. Jurja church in Oprtalj. The main altar was built in 1636, but an some remains of an older altar dating to the beginning of the 16th century persist. There is also a gilded wooden side-altar. The church has been the subject of a number of works since 1969.