Spaladium Arena is a multipurpose sports hall in Split. It is located between the Lora military port and shipyard Split.

The hall was built for the needs of the world handball championship in 2009. year. It has a total area of 28,500 m2. Its capacity to 12,000 seats, and will have the possibility of partial rearrangements in order to be able to take place and smaller events. With a large hall and there is less room surface 4100 m2, with a capacity of 150 seats. Designed for a range of sports, or for preparation, training, etc. Dimensions courts are 40×20 m.
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In XIII. and the beginning of XIV. century was built on the entry space in the temple, bell tower of St. Duje the late Romanesque style. Its construction element shows characteristics of the Romanesque style, but the new spirit of gothic feel to a certain long and sparsely system holes. The beginning of XVI rcentury built is another Romanesque floor, while the construction of the tower ends, gotic-renaissance end.

This harmonious slender and monumental construction for long centuries afterwards visual indetitet city, especially if one looks from the sea, so in that sense appears on the city’s coat of arms still in the middle of the peristyle age. Easternm of that is a monumental mausoleum of Emperor Diocletian.
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In the framework of building refurbishment project, the central part of the promenade of Split, the Croatian Museum of Monuments in Split spent archaeological research in the area of the southern façade of Diocletian’s Palace. Research took place in the area of so-called Gate of the city, and the former south-west tower of the Palace to the entrance to the substructure-cellars (aka Porta Aenea), the low buildings leaning on the wall of the Palace.

Riva is one of the most public places in the city of Split and valuable urban neighborhood with a bow and other functional and recreational facilities. Inseparable from it is Diocletian’s palace, as the urban core city.
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Cellars of Diocletian’s palace is called covered and partly underground space in the most southern part of Old Town (the former province of Diocletian’s Palace) in Split. It is a vaulted, bigger or smaller indoor rooms and corridors between them. Their large size as the entire eighth former Palace.

Shaped the construction of the Palace at the position with a fall towards the coast, for the purpose of equalization level of the southern, residential section, with other parts of the Palace. Their premises have a variety of forms: bazilikal, central, central - cross, rectangular, etc. The walls are used for the imperial foundations of residential buildings above them, and the forms of space probably coincide with the shape of these buildings that have disappeared design houses and streets of Split in the Middle Ages. Probably used for storage, perhaps prison space.
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As the oldest remains of human life on the territory of Marjan set out prehistory remains on the hill Bambina glavica, on the southern slope of the hill. From Roman times to meet a variety of names related to Marjan such as Marulianus, Marnanus, and Mons Kyrielson toward religious processions which were performed on him.

Find traces of the Romans and the Roman map (in the form of so-called. Peutingeriana Tabula), which is marked, even before the construction of Diocletian’s Palace, on Cape Marjan temple of Diana, goddess of hunting, and the way of settlements Spalatum to it. This testifies that the Marjan time was forested, probably covered with deciduous oak forest. Already in the Middle Ages (IV century) found in Split on the prohibition of the charter for cutting wood, and the first guard of Marjan, which shows the concern the then government for the protection of this area. Hermit life in Split was developed already in the Middle Ages. Chancel sv.Cirijaka bound in tradition for sv.Jeronim figure, which was reportedly lived alone.
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The largest tourist region of Dalmatia was part of the greatest city of Split, which includes only one, Split-Dalmatia County. This is the center and the right to the heart of Dalmatia, where he lives most of its inhabitants, with the main Dalmatian islands and the most beautiful beaches. There is also the most valuable monuments of culture and two from a total of five Croatian sites get World heritage of UNESCO’s - historical center of Split with Diocletian’s Palace and the historic city of Trogir. If the Dalmatia, as many say, the real true Mediterranean, it is just the central part of Split, a heart in the Mediterranean.

Split Dalmatia shared part of the historical fate of the other parts of Dalmatia, but the very central position and a large hinterland protection was somewhat less exposed to the devastation in neighboring regions. Because of this, there lives so many people and particularly well-preserved primeval Mediterranean spirit. This particularly applies to the city of Split, Zagreb, after the largest city of Croatia and its main cultural center. In the vicinity of Split and other large coastal towns of Dalmatia, Trogir and Omis, while further south, offers picturesque Makarska Riviera. Split ranked ahead of the one to the other almost all the large Dalmatian islands - Brac, Solta, Ciovo, Hvar, Vis, and to Split focused a large portion of the interior of Dalmatia with Sinj, Imotski, Vrlika, Vrgorac.
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Marjan Hill is a low lying mountain landform on the peninsula of the city of Split, in Croatia’s Dalmatia region. It is covered in a dense Mediterranean pine forest and completely surrounded by the city and the sea, making it a unique sight, originally used by Diocletian’s Palace in the third century AD as a park. It is a favourite weekend excursion destination and a recreational center of the local populace. It is also the setting of numerous beaches and jogging trails as well as tennis courts and the city zoo, all surrounded by the scenic forest. Also, the tip of the peninsula houses the “Institut za Oceanografiju i Ribarstvo” (IZOR) (Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries). The hill is 189 meters tall and offers a breathtaking view on the entire city, the surrounding islands, and the nearby mountains of Mosor and Kozjak
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Split’s historic centre has been classed as a UNESCO world heritage site and therefore has much to offer on a sight seeing holiday.

The most famous landmark in the city is Diocetian’s Palace built in the 3rd century AD for Roman Emperor Diocletian. Almost a city within a city, the maze of streets and alleyways, buildings, temples, columns, walls and ruins are fascinating and you are almost obligated to visit.

The Cathedral and Bell Tower are also well worth visiting; built in a Romanesque style the octagonal cathedral holds an array of beautiful religious items and for a minimal fee you can climb to the top of the bell tower for some fantastic views across Split. Another cathedral worth visiting is the Saint Duje Cathedral which is possibly the oldest in the world.
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Split is an important transport centre for Dalmatia and the wider region. In addition to the Zagreb-Split motorway (A1), all the road traffic along the Adriatic coast on the route Zadar–Dubrovnik flows through the city. The city also has an impressive series of expressways and avenues, enabling efficient, fast transit by car around the city and its suburbs.

The Split Suburban Rail netwrok opened in early December 2006. It currently has one line, running from Split-Harbour to Kaštel Stari, but is being revamped with brand-new stations and reconstruction of existing ones. The line is expected to get a 2nd track and be fully electrified starting in 2008.
New, low-floor trains are expected as well. This line will also be lengthened, to encompass the aforementioned Split International Airport and continue on to the city of Trogir and Seget Donji. Split has a mini-metro that is to be operational by 2009.

Croatian tourism is back on its feet after the war a decade ago. One popular gateway to Croatia is the city of Split in Central Dalmatia, the heart of which is synonymous with an incredible Roman palace.

Diocletian, Roman Emperor and a passionate builder, created the vast palace for his own retirement, suitable for a man considering himself the god Jupiter’s representative on Earth. His deceased body disappeared at some point in history, presumably a supernatural act of an immortal half-god: himself. In this particular story, Diocletian reappears to see how his palace in Split has stood up to 1700 years of wear and tear.

On his retina, Diocletian has the image of a glorious rectangular structure measuring 215 by 180 meters, containing imperial apartments, temples, a mausoleum and quarters for servants and soldiers, with 16 fortifications on its defensive walls. His eyes are straining to adjust themselves to today’s patchwork of red-roofed buildings in all shapes and sizes, spreading along the sea onto the green Marjan peninsula in the west and terminated in the background by high-rise blocks against the bluish Dinaric Mountains.
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