Split

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Split, the second city of Croatia is a vibrant centre on the Dalmatian coast, along with the picturesque Dubrovnik and has lots to offer for tourists of all sorts. Once an important city under Diocletian, it has been under different rules and has become a somewhat urban mixture, with all different times reflecting in its architecture. The city of Split is situated on the warmest area of the northern Mediterranean coast, right in the middle of the Adriatic coast, near the river Jadro and Zrnovnica which already 1700 years charge this area with water.

The mild climate with 2700 hours of sunshine annually, Split transforms in the middle of winter in the oasis in which you can enjoy the sun. University, industrial and economic center of the region its "green soul" keeps the famous hill Marjan situated on the west side of the peninsula, where-forest park near the city provides the comfort of a peaceful city noise preserved promenade under the pine trees along the coast.

Its residents will need a lot of pride to say that "the most beautiful in the world and the surrounding area" and how with them, do not controvert, because you can feel the spirit of ancient Split. This city with about 200 thousand inhabitants, who give him a warm Mediterranean temper, lives its urban rhythm, but 1700 years ago, with his heart in Diocletian Palace.

Contents 1 Here is Split located 2 How to get to Split 3 Map of Split 4 Picture gallery for Split 5 Insight into history of Split 6 What to see in Split 7 Places of excursions near Split 8 Accomodations in Split 8.1 Hotels in Split 8.2 Camping in Split 8.3 Private accomodations in Split 9 Weather in Split 9.1 Current weather in Split and a 7-day weather forecast for Split 9.2 Climate in Split 10 Sports & leisure time in Split 11 Where to eat 12 Beaches in Split 13 Nightlife and entertaining in Split 14 Cultural arrangements in Split 15 Videos of Split 16 Discussions about Split 17 Helpful links

Here is Split located

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How to get to Split

Split is the largest city in Dalmatia and one of the main traffic junctions at the same time. The International Airport is located near Kastel Stafilic between the two cities Trogir and Split. Split has a large ferry port. From the ferry terminal comes to the major regional and Dalmatian islands. With the car we split on the newly autocesta / A 1 (Zagreb-Split), or the coastal road Jadranska Magistrala. Who on the autocesta / A 1 highway arriving leave the motorway at junction Dugopolje and drive the few kilometeres above the well-developed road Sinj split to the coast.

Map of Split

Picture gallery for Split

View from Mountain Marjan

View to Mountain Marjan

Water front

Panorama

Insight into history of Split

As early as the Neolithic was the populated area around Split. The Romans came in the year 78 BC to the plan, especially after the construction of the Diocletian Palace, the city shape. Emperor Diocletian was the first resident of Split, which is about 293.godine pk built luxurious imperial villa of about 30 thousand square meters in which he stayed after the departure from the throne Roman imperatora. The Byzantine Split maintained contact with the Croatian state. In the 10th and 11 Century formed an autonomous city administration, which 300 years of existence. Only when Venice splits power and a limited destruction of the city by the Turkish armed forces threatened to be pulled in split politically. During the Napoleonic occupation the city and a metropolitan city developmed. Split 1918, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes beaten. As a stronghold of the partisan movement during the Second World War the city was heavily bombed before they Tito's Liberation Army. Auto-economic trends tables made in the summer of 1991 felt again. In Split, the prescribed centralism with critical eyes. Here past many authorities, from the Croatian kings in the 10. century, through the Hungarian and Venetian administration, to the French monarchs and the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Turbulent past has left its traces of everyday life combined in a city that has always step - forward, the center of this remaining part of the coast are present until the present day.

What to see in Split

For sight-seeing, Split has a great deal to offer. Monuments worth seeing include the following. Diocletian’s palace was reconstructed and lies just outside eastwards from the old town, the heart of the city. You may enter the old town through the Golden Gate or the Bronze Gate and then go to the Cathedral, the Baptistry, and the Vestibule. There is an Ethnographic Museum. Or you might just want to stroll along the sea front, so go to the Riva, Split’s busy seafront.

• Diocletian Palace
• Mountain Marjan
• Museums and Galleries-Split has several museums.

• Ethnographic Museum (Etnografski muzej)

• City Museum (Muzej grada Splita)

• Maritime Museum (Hrvatski muzej Pomorski)

• Natural History Museum (Prirodoslovni muzej)

• Art Gallery (Galerija umjetnina)

• Archaeological Museum Croatian Monuments (Muzej hrvatskih arheoloških spomenika)

• Gallery Meštrović (Galerija Meštrović)

• Castle Meštrović (Kaštelet Meštrović)

District Dobri

• Croatian National Theatre on Gajo-Bulat Square http://www.hnk-split.hr
• Church and Monastery of the health Mother

District Lovret

• Art Gallery-The art gallery is located in the Lovretska ulica 11 and shows works from the 14th Century to the present time shows, including Dalmatian and Venetian artists. Also of note is the collection of local icons.

District Poljud

• Archaeological Museum (Arheološki muzej)-At the suggestion of the Austrian Emperor Francis I. The museum was founded in 1820 and was in this region of Europe the first of its kind

• Franciscan monastery St. Ante with Mary's Church and Museum in Poljud

The cloister of the 15th Century by Franciscan monks founded the monastery is to this day. In possession of the monastery is a major art collection. The altar in the apse has a rectangular wing altar "polyptych," the patron saint St. Dominius the city of Split.

• Church of the Holy Trinity

The church from the 8 / 9 Century is located near the stadium and has 6 semi-apses.

• Stadium of Hajduk Split in Poljud

Places of excursions near Split

Head for the coast south of Split, you will discover a wild and beautiful nature with pebble beaches in front of the Dalmatian mountains, which is worth it even if some of the fishing villages are developing to become bigger and modern tourist resorts. If you look out for meeting people and for joining the crowd, head for the resorts of Makarska Riviera. Do also try and visit what some call the jewels of Dalmatia, its islands. The waterfront promenade offers a magnificent view of the palace and the harbour.

• Park Strossmayer-it is right on the north side of Diocletian's palace.

Accomodations in Split

Hotels in Split

• Hotel Dujam **
• Hotel Jupiter **
• Hotel Slavija **
• Hotel Zagreb **
• Hotel Adriana ***
• Hotel As ***
• Hotel Bellevue ***
• Hotel Consul ***
• Hotel Jadran ***
• Hotel Kastel ***
• Hotel Marjan ***
• Hotel More ***
• Hotel Peristil ***
• Hotel Split ***
• Hotel-Pansion Krilo ***
• Hotel Villa Diana ***
• Hotel Zenta ***
• Hotel Zvonimir (Stobrec) ***
• Hotel Dalmina ****
• Hotel Globo ****
• Hotel Park ****
• Hotel President ****
• Design-Hotel Vestibul Palace ****
• Art Hotel ****
• Hotel Atrium *****
• Hotel Le Meridien Lav *****

Camping in Split

• Camping Adria Kastel Stafilic
• Camping Juras Ante Kastel Stafilic
• Camping Klismanic Ante Kastel Stafilic
• Camping Mini Camp Kastel Stari
• Camping Marica Bilus Kastel Stari
• Camping Dragan Kastel Kambelovac
• Camping Stobrec Split

Private accomodations in Split

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Weather in Split

Below you see the current weather forecast for Split. The climate table of Split tells you which temperatures can be expected for each month.

Current weather in Split and a 7-day weather forecast for Split

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Climate in Split

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Sports & leisure time in Split

For those who want more active vacation, there are many opportunities for sports and recreational activities in Split and the surrounding area. You can choose from cycling, horseback riding, rafting, canoe and kayaks, diving, water skiing, surfing, volleyball on the sand, and much more. As a city at sea, offer plenty of water sports, so you can rent a beach canoes, pedal boats, row and sail, ski in the sea or to try parasailing. Numerous diving and fishing society organized diving and sport fishing.

Where to eat

Restaurants in Split:

• ADRIANA Restaurant, Coast Hrv people. Revival 8,
• Restaurant ADRIATIC GRAŠO, Bay Baluni bb,
• Restaurant BEKAN, John pl. Zajc bb,
• Restaurant ANY IDRO, Baluni Bay 1,
• Restaurant BOBAN, Hektorovićeva 49,
• Restaurant DUJE, freedom Street 16,
• Restaurant NEAR JOZE, Sredmanuška 4,
• Restaurant LUČICA, Lucica 7,
• Restaurant Galway, Vrančićeva 1,

Look out for bakeries, like the 24-hour Prerada bakery opposite the market on Zagrebačka, which offers a large range of fresh buns, strudels and cakes. Pavement cafés invite tourists as much as locals, and most are around the Peristyle and along the waterfront.

Beaches in Split

• Beach Bačvice

Sandy beach with swimming plateau in the Bacvice Bay on the outskirts of the city centre. Urban beach with 3 inputs, one for wheelchair users, parking nearby. Bačvice the scope of Blue Flag campaign in the last year some spectacular actions, including the cleanup of the seabed.

• Beach of Hotel Split

350-meter-long pebble beach with some rock sections in a suburb of Split. The promenade above the beach is responsible for the traffic. From here, walk to the beach. Entry into the water over ladder. With regard to environmental issues is a collaboration with the University of Split.

Nightlife and entertaining in Split

As soon as you come in this city of jovial spirit, fun already started. Nice hosts, nice and big hearts guarantee you an excellent time and good entertainment. Whether to enjoy the beach, walking tour of the city and its beauty and cultural and historical heritage, or enjoy the nightlife until the early morning, everyone will find something for themselves

Particularly well known is the city beach Bačvice. There are several bars, discos, restaurant and an open-air cinema.

• "Master P", Osječka b.b.
• "A-90" hotel "split", Put Trstenika 19
• "Admiral", O. Kneza Branimira 8
• "Kakadu" at the marina, Sustipanski put bb
• "Metropolis", Matice Hrvatske 1
• "O'Hara (ex-Shakespeare), District Firule, Cvjetna 1 http://www.ohara.hr
• "Up & Down" at the marina
• "Mississippi" District Gripe, Osječka bb

Other nightclubs in Split

• "Focus", Bosanska 2
• "Paladium 2", Poljudsko Šetalište
• Pasha
• "Playboy", Poljudsko Šetalište

For clubbing, it is best to look out for street posters, as everywhere else in Croatia’s towns.

Cultural arrangements in Split

Carnival season in February is a good time for a visit when the city is crowded with people. A pop festival is happening once a year. There are plenty of cultural events happening in Split including theatre, classical music, opera and ballet at the Croatian National Theatre, as well as during the Split Summer Festival from mid- July to mid- August.

• Croatian National Theatre - festival, hosts numerous musical, theatrical, dance and street performances from the country and abroad and the best performances in music and drama prize was awarded to the "Judita". Split the summer is one of the oldest and most attractive summer festivals

• Museum of the City of Split - in which, besides obtaining, preservation and protection of items organized mobile exhibitions, lectures, courses, seminars, and various research jobs.

• The Museum of Croatian archaeological monuments - kept the archaeological treasures of 1976.g. and exhibited in a representative

building. With his collection of early medieval and figural plastic and ancient monuments is among the largest collections of its kind in Europe. Epigraphic monuments (from 9. To 12 cent.) where are the names of Croatian rulers and the secular and religious dignitaries representing the oldest Croatian archives - "Archives in stone."

Videos of Split

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Discussions about Split

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