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- Split is the second biggest urban centre from Croatia, also is known as the largest Dalmatian city, located on the beautiful shores of the Adriatic Sea.
If you want to explore the Central Dalmatia's coastline this city named Split is the perfect place from where to start. From here you can easily have access to some popular islands from Croatia and an old town that is on the UNESCO World Heritage list. A great place to take a walk in the evening when the sun goes down.
Split, since the ancient times served as a economic and administrative centre of the beautiful Croatian Adriatic region that today is known as Dalmatia.
The city is mainly located on a peninsula on the eastern part of the Ciovo island.
From the fifth century BC the Greek colonists settled the adjacent islands and the mainland and later the Romans came and in 303 AD, the emperor Diocletian build a huge palace in a place that in those times was called Salona.
Around this palace grew up a town, known today as Split. It developed mostly by the Middle Ages.
In the ancient part of the town the palace still stands and empowers the general architecture with the Roman style. This area is mainly characterised by lush vegetation and lots of green areas from which we can remember on the west of the peninsula the Marjan Hill.
Split is a great place from where to start exploring the islands, beauty spots and historic villages in the central Dalmatia.
