Jupiter’s temple is a temple dedicated to the god Jupiter main deity of the ancient Romans. Located near the Peristyle, the central square of the palace. It was built during the entire construction of Diocletian’s Palace, later became St. fonts. John. At the entrance to the temple is one of the two sphinxes brought out of Egypt by order of Emperor Diocletian.

Temple of Jupiter was constructed from the 295th until 305 However, as part of the palace of Emperor Diocletian. Was probably dedicated to the supreme Roman deity and the divine father Diocletian Jupiter. Temple is located west of the central part of the palace which was the religious part, and to which came the solemn approach. It is known that the car came 305th The Nikomedije from the palace, and then stop the many papers, and parts of the temple remained incomplete.
Read the rest of this entry »

The city of Split has been awarded again, as in last eight years, three blue flags for quality and clean beaches and marinas. One of the blue flag is awarded for ACI marina in Split, second one for beach at Hotel “Split” and third blue flag has been awarded for beach ” Bacvice” too.

To get an exclusive eco-label Blue Flag beaches or marinas has to satisfy twenty two criteria covering ecological, educational, security and service standards. For 2006 Croatia has been awarded by 103 Blue Flags for various beaches and 19 Blue Flags for it’s marinas.

The Blue Flag is an exclusive eco-label awarded to over 3100 beaches and marinas in 36 countries across Europe, South Africa, Morocco, New Zealand, Canada and the Caribbean in 2006. The Blue Flag Programme is owned and run by the independent non-profit organisation Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE).
Read the rest of this entry »

One of the most beautiful squares in Split. His offer represent octagonal Venetian tower, the late Renaissance palace Milesi and Marko Mestrovic’s monument to Marulic that together create a harmonious urban whole. Beside the square is connected to Michael Beam and Street of “Braca Radic” and together create a beautiful city space.

Now home to various shops and businesses, Trg brace Radic was once home to a bustling fruit market and so has been given the unofficial name of Vocni trg. This translates to, you might have guessed, fruit square. These days there’s no fruit in sight, but there are several shops and points of interest that call this square home, including the Venetian castello and tower, both of which were constructed in 1435. The northern side of the square is dominated by the Milesi Palace, one of the best examples of Baroque architecture in Dalmatia.
Read the rest of this entry »

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.
Read the rest of this entry »

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.
Read the rest of this entry »

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.
Read the rest of this entry »

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.
Read the rest of this entry »

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.
Read the rest of this entry »

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.
Read the rest of this entry »

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
Read the rest of this entry »