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Posted on June 8, 2009, 8:14 am by Bruno Vucica in category Diocletian's Palace
PORTA MERIDIONALIS is its Roman name. As a gate facing the rage of the sea, with the south wind, it is entirely different from the other three. First of all its more modest dimensions, then because it served as a gateway to the sea, from the first flow through the subterranean areas.
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Posted on June 7, 2009, 2:26 pm by Tonka Kovacic in category Monasteries
Pre-Romanesque church of St. Eufemija was the first built alongside the palace walls alongside the northern wall in the 11th century. In 1096, when the Benedictine monastery was founded Split was under the rule of the Croatian king Petar Kresimir IV. After eight centuries the entire monastery was de...
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Posted on June 7, 2009, 10:18 am by Bruno Vucica in category Suburbs
Radun is the old Illyrian name for the water spring. Fresh water still flows through Radunica. Since it earliest time it was the central street of Lucac suburb that was settled by the arrivals from the Republic of Poljica, about five hundred years ago.
The names of those old families are feat...
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Posted on June 6, 2009, 6:24 pm by Bruno Vucica in category Diocletian's Palace
Porta orientalis is its Roman name. It continuse the shape of rectangular propugnaculum, that opens up towards the main street, decumanus, which continues west towards "Pjaca", traditionally the central local meeting place. Silver Gate was more modestly, decorated than the Golden Gate.
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Posted on June 6, 2009, 9:18 am by Tonka Kovacic in category Diocletian's Palace
PORTA OCCIDENTALIS is its Roman name. Through the Iron Gate, life of the 17th century was passed by each day. Ever since it was opened it bears witness to Illyrian, Greek, Roman and also Avar, Slav, Turkish. Italian, French and other groups, until today when the sound of the renaissance clock tower ...
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Posted on June 5, 2009, 7:46 am by Bruno Vucica in category Suburbs
Veli Varos and Lucac combine a sort of historical sandwich with a city center, "competing" for the little of the oldest suburb. Lucac has its roots to the old Illyrian settlement at Radunica, while the people from Veli Varos talk about the ancient settlements near Marjan on whose slopes they live.
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Posted on June 5, 2009, 7:35 am by Tonka Kovacic in category Monasteries
The monastery of St. Ante at Poljud was built during the mid 15th century at the location of the pre-Romanesque church of St. Mary and the even older Roman villa as indicated by the southern wall of the monastery garden. The Renaissance cloister has several tombstones of local nobility including the...
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