Split Tour (August 2016)


We met our guide Verdran (arranged by Mate from Private Guide Split). For $90 Euros, Verdran showed us around Diocletian’s Palace on a 2-hour walking tour.

The city of Split draws its name from a common shrub in the area called the spiny broom. The Greeks first founded Split as a replacement for their previous capital of Salona. In 1979, the historic center of Split was included on the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites because of its architectural preservation. Old Town Split is home to Diocletian's Palace, built for the Roman emperor in 305 BC. The palace had  more than 200 buildings and 3,000 residents within an 8-acre enclosed space. In fact, the “palace” is a mini-city of its own, full of a maze of stone pedestrian pathways and passageways that lead to a Romanesque belfry, a 16th-century synagogue, courtyards, squares, shops, restaurants, lodging, and apartment homes. Old Town Split contains some of the most impressive Roman ruins in the world, including the Cathedral of St. Domnius (filled with murals, altars, and a steep bell tower that we climbed), and the Temple of Jupiter (guarded by a headless black granite sphinx from Egypt).



























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