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The city of Split is situated in the warmest
region of the northern Mediterranean coast,
in the very centre of the Adriatic eastern
coast and in the immediate vicinity of the
rivers Jadro and Zrnovnica that have been watering
it for 1700 years. Its mild climate, with 2700
sunny hours per year, makes it an oasis where,
sheltered from the wind, one can enjoy the
sun even in wintertime. The industrial, university,
and business centre of the region nourishes
its "green soul" on the hill Marjan
situated in the westernmost part of the peninsula.
Its forested park infringed by the city and
the sea offers pleasant walks away from the
city noise under the pines by the sea.
The
first inhabitant of Split was the Roman emperor
Diocletian who started to build his palace
in this friendly bay around 293 AD. After his
abdication he withdrew to this luxurious palace
of about 30 thousand square meters.
The following turbulent centuries made the palace into a town first populated
by the citizens of the nearby Salona, fleeing before Avars and Slavs. The town
overgrew the walls of the palace and its authorities kept changing - from Croatian
kings in 10th century AD, Hungarian and Venetian administration, to French rulers
and Austro-Hungarian monarchy.
Such
past left its traces combined in the town everyday
life. The city, however, went on remaining
the centre of this part of the coast till our
day. This mixture of historic layers brought
some clumsiness and some things done too fast
but today all that makes a part of its originality.
The big city today lives by the silent beats of history, lively spirit of the
young and its particular Mediterranean charm.
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