Culture

There are numerous monuments along the Adriatic coast many of which excel in their beauty and artistic value and deserve to be enlisted as UNESCO world cultural heritage sites. UNESCO has righteously recognized their grandeur, beauty and importance and we invite you to get to know them during your visit to Croatia. If you come to this trip you can discover their beauty for yourself, even if you are not especially taken by art history.

The construction of this luxurious palace started in 295 and lasted until 305. Emperor Diocletian spent his last years there. The palace has a quadrangular ground-plan with the 215 x 180 m dimensions and occupies the surface of 38 500 m2. This best preserved antique building in Croatia was built of the stone from the island of Braè. It displays the elements of an ancient villa and a fortified castle and comprises the nucleus of today's Split. During the 5th and 6th centuries the Palace became a dwelling object, while more than 2600 people lived there at the end of the 19th century. Today, its cellars have been transformed into exhibition areas, and the open square of the monumental Palace have become attractive summer stages for cultural events.

The world has recognised Dubrovnik as the town of exceptional cultural and historical monuments, so that UNESCO has declared the whole old town nucleus as the protected world heritage. The town was founded in the 7th century and it is encompassed with 2 km long walls considered to be among the most massif defence fortifications in Europe. The city walls are 25 m high and 6 m thick and include 36 forts, towers and fortresses. They are encircled with beautiful streets consisting of houses and palaces from all periods of the famous Dubrovnik Republic. To walk through Dubrovnik, to drink coffee on the Stradun (Plaza), to walk on the old town walls is like a visit to a live gallery of styles and periods.