My Split
While thinking how to arouse your interest of visiting Split I realized how difficult it is for a person to objectively describe the town he loves. That is why I`ve decided to take you for an imaginary evening walk through the city, in order to try to describe you some of the moments you could experience while staying in Split.
To get a general idea of the city it would be best to take a walk through the narrow streets of the old part of the city, or up the stairs from the seaside, to Vidilica (famous Split belvedere) in the late evening and enjoy the view of the city greeting the hot summer night with its lights.
After you come back to the seaside, walk by the sea on famous Split Riva and then step into the Diocletian`s cellars and in this monumental edifice feel the last gasps of the Roman Empire. Few ungainly steps will take you to Peristil, the central square of the emperor`s palace and the scene of Split summer cultural festival. Behind the well preserved Corinth pillars there is the Diocletian`s Mausoleum, today Split cathedral of St. Dujam. We continue our walk along the most crowded town street towards the western “Iron Gate“ through which you exit the Palace and enter Pjaca (popular Split square), and then towards north where in front of the “Golden Gate” you`ll see the imposing sculpture of the bishop Gregorius of Nin (Grgur Ninski), work of the greatest Croatian sculptor Ivan Meštrović. Here we re-enter the Palace and through narrow streets come to Peristil, the cellars and Riva again.
This walk should be definitely taken again during the day when all the lines of this 1700 years old edifice are even more visible and impressive.
For more detailed sightseeing you should have a car because Split stretches kilometers outside the Palace walls. Numerous beaches, beautiful park-forest Marjan, museums, galleries, restaurants with regional gastronomic offer, seaside promenade, coffee bars,...
As well as all the other cities Split, too, hides its biggest treasure in the hearts of its inhabitants. And if you come close enough to them you`ll experience the Mediterranean mentality in all its richness. People from Split are hospitable, funny and open-hearted and that is the part of Split I would like the most for you to take as a memory of my town.
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