Things To Do In SPLIT Croatia. Split Top 10 Travel Guide. I will show you my favourite 10 Things To Do In Split. I’m Rok and I’ve spent last 8 years travelling around Europe as a tour guide. I want to show you my favourite top 10 tourist attractions in Split, including amazing Split old town. It used to be Diocletian palace, build in 305 for Roman emperor and parts of this palace are considered to be the best preserved roman buildings.

Things To Do In SPLIT :
00:00 - Introduction to Split
00:43 - Klis Fortress - Game of Thrones filming location:
This medieval fortress near Split might look familiar if you ever watched The Game of Thrones. It sits on a pass that separates two mountains and it was used to control the coast. With more than 2.000 years of turbulent history it offers great view of modern Split.

02:20 - Marjan Forest Park: park right above the harbour looking down at Split. It has been cherished by the citizens for generations since it is only 15-minute walk from the city centre.

03:31 - Mestrovic Gallery: Ivan Meštrović is the greatest Croatian sculptor. He worked in 20th-cenutury and his works are in every corner of the city. Beautiful grand villa is an art gallery and art museum dedicated to his work and used to be his home.

04:44 - Bacvice beach: the most popular party beach with restaurants, cafe bars and nightclubs. This beach is also the birthplace of a special beach game called picing that is played in the shallow waters.

06:03 - Republic Square: one of the main gathering places in Split. Citizens know it as Prokurative after the building with arches. It was built in the middle of the 19th century by a Mayor, who was keen to emphasise Split’s ties to Italy.

06:55 - Strossmayer’s park: emperor Diocletian walked through the Golden Gates as he entered his grand Palace for the first time on the 1st of June 305. The gates are part of the north wall of the Palace. And on the outside is this nice tree-shaded park with the Art Gallery and monument of Bishop Gregory of Nin. It is believed that rubbing bishops toe brings happiness and makes your dreams come true.

08:16 - Split waterfront: the living room of Split. It is the most popular and most important public space in the city. Riva is a pedestrian zone with cafés, restaurants and gelato places. It is also a stage for numerous cultural and entertainment events and place where people of Split welcome their successful athletes.

09:43 - The People's Square: first inhabited part of Split outside the Diocletian Palace, where Split’s nobility lived. It has beautiful venetian and renaissance houses and palaces that surround the square. Here is also one of Splits landmarks, small and beautiful clock tower with a bell on top. The clock is unique for showing all 24 hours with all 24 digits on the one dial.

11:20 - Cathedral of St. Domnius: symbol of Split, the oldest Roman Catholic cathedral in the world that remains in use in its original structure. It is also considered to be one of the best-preserved ancient Roman buildings still standing.
Next to the cathedral is the iconic bell tower that was built in the 13th century. It is a true landmark of Split and can be recognised from the distance. You can climb its steps and get great views of Split and Adriatic.

12:56 - Diocletian’s Palace: Game of Thrones filming location: Roman Emperor Diocletian gave up the throne of the Roman Empire and decided to retire here in his huge retirement palace. Over the centuries people adapted parts of the palace and significantly changed its original appearance, but the outlines of the Imperial Palace are still visible. Substructures of the palace represent one of the best preserved ancient complexes of their kind in the world.

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P.S.: Rok is a traveler, a cinematic vlogger and a tour guide. On this travel channel he is combining his 20 years of travelling experience, his 10 years of filmmaking experience and his 8 years of tour guiding experience.

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Diocletian's Palace in 300 AD
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