St. Michael am Lim was the first abbey of the Camaldolese order. The Benedictines administered the monastery and belonged to it through their property until the 18th century. Since the 15th century the friars had autonomy here, so the fiefdom was considered an area with monastic feudal immunity. From the 18th century the monastery building and fiefdom fell to the counts of the Coletti family until the entire fiefdom passed into state (Austrian) ownership in 1847. At the time of the Austrian rule there was a religious station here. There are two churches with valuable frescoes, as well as the cloister, cistern and parts of the buildings that made up the monastery complex.
One of the most interesting areas with a unity of environment and architecture in Istria is the monastery complex of St. Michael am Lim, which is located in the place with the significant name Kloštar. This complex also includes the surrounding area, which formerly formed part of the monastery property, and the important Kontija forest area. The locations of the old Benedictine abbeys were carefully chosen elsewhere in the Christian world and without exception form an ambient, geographical, microclimatic, scenic and in other way special area. St. Michael am Lim, built on the bare plain above Lim with two old churches, extremely valuable frescoes and a destroyed monastery complex with cloister and cistern, watchtower, property, quarry and forest areas fits into such a picture. A hundred meters away is the modern town of Kloštar.