A few bugs overnight, so we bought some spray for tonight to stop the whining (bugs that is, not Karen). Out and away on a local bus to Salona, some of Croatia’s best Roman ruins. It was the Roman headquarters for Dalmatia, big in the 200s and on, but flattened by Slavs in the early 600s. We took a different bus to what Lonely Planet suggested, and ended up by staying on the bus a bit long and missing our stop. Fixed by a 10-minute walk and a coffee stop, then into the ruins.
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| Salona Ruins |
They were very good, very few people about, well sign-posted and the perfect spot for a picnic lunch. The old info centre in the centre was hilarious. It was built with all kinds of bits and pieces picked up from the ruins. Every window had ancient columns each side, and maybe a piece of pediment over, and there were panels of random bits of sculpture all stuck together. Something a modern archaeologist would cringe at.
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| Info Building at Salona |
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| Trogir from Clocktower |
Trogir consists (like Split) of an historic centre, in this case on a tiny island, with the rest of the town outside it and for travellers more or less irrelevant. It was a centre of arts from the 13th century and was taken over by Venice later on, so was full of lovely palaces and twisty mediaeval streets. It’s clearly a weekend destination for Croatians as the cafes and waterfront bars were full of locals taking time out.
Surprising to us, we felt we had pretty much covered Split in a single day, so will head off south in the morning.
