NORTHERN DALMATIA, ZADAR
Welcome to Zadar, Northern Dalmatia, Croatia.
Zadar is main city on the Northern Dalmatian coast. It changed and grew from Neolithic colony and Illyrian Iader to Roman Iadera in Augustus times with spacious
amphitheatre and biggest Forum on eastern coast of Adriatic. Old section of Zadar is situated on natural island converted to peninsula. Streets
of Zadar still follow Roman urban
planning and buildings are like trip in time machine. From forum to rotunda of st Donat (9 c.) fashioned in same manner like
Charlemagne's chapel in Aachen - only on bigger scale, from old
Croatian churches (St Peter, St Lawrence) to Romanesque cathedral of St Anastasia, St Maria (Benedictine monastery - Zlato i srebro Zadra), Sv Krsevan, gothic church of St Francis, church of St Simon with most valuable work of Croatian medieval goldsmiths (St Simons coffin) and so on and on... Some of its interesting museums (Archeological museum, Narodni museum, muzej grad or Zadar City Museum), archive (one of the richest and most complete in the country), galleries, concerts, events like : Musical evenings in St Donat, Strings only, excellent basketball performances, lovely walks through beautiful parks and promenade along fortified walls makes it transparent to everybody that Zadar
succeeded in retaining its ancient structures and remained through
centuries - without interruption - to be lively and diverse city.
Zadar has new hydraulic organ on NW tip of old peninsula and it literally makes sea play some music. New architecture
intervenes with old, green market is loud and rich, fish and fruits are offered in
abundance....in terms of tourism, culture and events Zadar has to be seen.
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