8 Local Spots in Split Tourists Don't Know About
8 landmarks with verified facts and stories
Bačvice Beach
Bačvice, Split, Croatia
Bačvice is Split's most popular city beach — a shallow, sandy cove east of the old town that is the spiritual home of picigin, a unique ball game played in knee-deep water that has been a Split tradition since the 1920s and was added to Croatia's list of intangible cultural heritage.
Bacvice Beach Nightlife
Bačvice, Split, Croatia
Bačvice is Split's main city beach — a crescent of sandy (rare on the rocky Croatian coast) shallow water 15 minutes' walk east of the old town that is simultaneously a family swimming beach, the home of the uniquely Split ball game called picigin, and the centre of the city's summer nightlife.
Dalmatian Cuisine & Konoba Culture
Various konobas, Split old town
Dalmatian cuisine is Mediterranean cooking at its simplest and best — grilled fish, olive oil, seasonal vegetables, and the wines from the surrounding islands and hillsides that make the Adriatic coast one of Europe's great food regions.
Green Market (Pazar)
Pazar, Split
The Green Market (Pazar) sits just outside the eastern wall of Diocletian's Palace — an open-air fruit, vegetable, and flower market that has been operating in this location for centuries and provides the most concentrated encounter with Dalmatian produce and the Mediterranean culinary tradition that defines Split's food culture.
Matejuska Fishermens Port
Matejuška, Split
Matejuška is Split's old fishermen's port — a small stone harbour at the western end of the Riva where traditional wooden fishing boats (called gajetas and leutas) still moor and where the fishermen's community has maintained its presence despite the relentless expansion of tourist cafés along the waterfront.
Riva Promenade
Splitska, Croatia
The Riva is Split's waterfront promenade — a palm-lined boulevard along the southern wall of Diocletian's Palace that is the city's daily gathering place, evening passeggiata route, and the spot where Splitčani have been drinking coffee and watching the harbour since the promenade was built in the 19th century.
Split Fish Market
5 Obrov, Grad, Split, 21000, Croatia
The Peškarija (fish market) is housed in a elegant early 20th-century building on the harbour front, just outside the western wall of the palace.
Varos Neighbourhood
Varoš, Split, Croatia
Varoš is Split's oldest neighbourhood outside the Roman palace — a hillside tangle of narrow alleys, stone houses, and tiny piazzas that grew up in the 7th century when refugees from the sacked Roman city of Salona settled around the palace walls.
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