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 Back on the Split–Sinj route, the road crosses infertile heath before descending into SINJ, a provincial market centre laid out in a bowl between the hills. It's famous locally for the Sinjska gospa (Our Lady of Sinj), a supposedly miraculous image of the Virgin dating from around 1500 which hangs i… |
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 From Klis, the road forges across the stony uplands of the Dalmatinska Zagora towards Sinj, 20km further on. It's a route traversed by frequent buses from Split, although you'll need your own transport to make the worthwhile side-trip to the Vranjaća Cave (Spilja Vranjaca; Easter–Oct daily 9am-5pm; … |
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 The town of KLIS grew up around a strategic mountain pass on the trade routes linking the coast with the hinterland of the Zagora. The steep rock pinnacle around which the modern town huddles was first fortified by the Romans before being taken over by the expanding medieval kingdom of the Croats; k… |
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 Five kilometres inland from Split, at the foot of the mountains which divide the coastal plain from the Zagora, is the sprawling dormitory suburb of Solin, a characterless modern town which has grown up beside the ruins of SALONA, erstwhile capital of Roman Dalmatia and probable birthplace of Diocle… |
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 A couple of minutes further along Setalište Ivana Meštrovića at no. 39, the Ivan Meštrović Gallery (Galerija Ivana Meštrovića; Tues-Sun 1 am-6pm) is housed in the ostentatious Neoclassical building that the country's most famous modern sculptor planned as his home and studio. Fronted by a portentous… |
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