![Picture](/uploads/2/3/1/6/23164998/9095119.jpg?250)
Within the Palace walls
![Picture](/uploads/2/3/1/6/23164998/7366644.jpg?299)
![]() From Dubrovnik we caught a local bus north, following the Adriatic coast to the city of Split. Split is the largest city in Dalmatia and spreads across a central peninsula and several seaside towns. The city hosts over 300,000 residents, industry workers, fishers and flocks of visitors - who come by air, land and sea, excited to visit the Roman Palace, the precipitous Marjan Hill, snack-lined Riva Promenade and crystalline beaches. Within the Palace walls![]() Split is well-known as the site of Roman Emperor Diocletian's retirement palace - an elaborate home constructed and adorned by stones from Italy and Egypt & encapsulated in a 25 m tall fortress. In the 1500s, most of his (31,000 square meter) palace was replaced by a rambling medieval town with stone streets, walls and roofs - much like Dubrovnik. But below the surface remains a massive network of service halls, storage caves and utility rooms (like an extant olive oil pressing rooms with marble gears). These layered remains of Diocletian's Palace was designated an UNESCO world heritage site in 1979.
Linnea Franits
9/12/2014 05:33:45 am
Whoa! VERTIGO!!! Comments are closed.
|
AuthorAn Upstate New York-grown, art history + Italian major turned organic farm volunteer turned Home Health Aide turned Landscape Architecture Grad student currently adventuring about the globe and taking far too many photos for one travel blog to handle. Archives
December 2017
Categories
All
|