Cathedral of St. Domnius
Peristyle, Diocletian's Palace, Split
The Cathedral of St.
Diocletian's Palace
Diocletian's Palace, Split
Diocletian's Palace is one of the most extraordinary ancient Roman structures in existence — a fortified retirement palace built between 295 and 305 AD by Emperor Diocletian that has been continuously inhabited for 1,700 years and now forms the living heart of Split's old town.
Ethnographic Museum
Iza Vestibula 4, Split
The Ethnographic Museum is housed within the imperial apartments of Diocletian's Palace — the only museum in the world that occupies the living quarters of a Roman emperor — and traces the folk culture of Dalmatia from the 17th century to the present through costumes, textiles, tools, and reconstructed interiors.
Golden Gate & Grgur Ninski Statue
3 Peristil, Grad, Split, 21000, Croatia
The Golden Gate (Porta Aurea) is the northern entrance to Diocletian's Palace — the most ornate of the palace's four gates, originally leading to the road to the imperial capital at Salona.
Iron Gate (Željezna Vrata)
Narodni trg, Grad, Split, 21000, Croatia
The Iron Gate is the western entrance of Diocletian's Palace and the only one of the four original gates that has been continuously in use since the 4th century — the others were buried, walled up, or rebuilt during the medieval period.
Jupiter's Temple
Diocletian's Palace, Split
The Temple of Jupiter is a remarkably preserved Roman temple within Diocletian's Palace — a small, barrel-vaulted structure originally dedicated to the king of the Roman gods and later converted into a Christian baptistery (a transition that mirrors the palace's own transformation from pagan imperial compound to Christian city).
Klis Fortress (Day Trip)
Klis, 21231 Croatia
Klis Fortress dominates a mountain pass 12 kilometres north of Split — a medieval stronghold on a narrow ridge that controlled the only practical route between the coast and the Dalmatian hinterland and was the scene of some of the bloodiest sieges in Croatian history.
Peristyle
Peristil, Diocletian's Palace, Split
The Peristyle is the open-air courtyard at the centre of Diocletian's Palace — a colonnaded square flanked by granite columns imported from Egypt that was the ceremonial approach to the emperor's private apartments and is now the most photographed, most sat-upon, and most socially active ancient Roman space in the world.
Salona Archaeological Site
Solin, Croatia
Salona was the capital of the Roman province of Dalmatia — a city of 60,000 people that was the largest urban centre on the eastern Adriatic and the birthplace of Emperor Diocletian (who retired to his palace in nearby Split after abdicating in 305 AD).
Silver Gate (Porta Argentea)
Hrvojeva, Split
The Silver Gate is the eastern entrance of Diocletian's Palace — one of the four original gates, walled up during the Middle Ages and only reopened in 1952 when the rubble was cleared.
Split City Museum
Papalićeva 1, Split
The Split City Museum occupies the Papalić Palace — a 15th-century Venetian Gothic mansion tucked inside the walls of Diocletian's Palace that was designed by the same architect (Juraj Dalmatinac) who built the famous cathedral in Šibenik.
Trogir (Day Trip)
Trogir, Croatia
Trogir is a UNESCO World Heritage medieval town on a small island connected by bridges to the mainland 27 kilometres west of Split — a Venetian-influenced stone town whose old town is so densely packed with Romanesque and Gothic architecture that it earns the nickname 'museum town.
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