‘Croatia revealed: Touring the historic cities of Split and Trogir’
Our cruise ship,
Celebrity Silhouette, was required to moor around the point of the Split peninsula because there were already two other cruise ships in port, so we caught the tender into the city. The view along the Riva Harbour promenade was most attractive with palm trees and restaurants nested in among gaps in the ancient city walls. There we took an escorted tour of Split courtesy of one of the ship’s shore excursions.
The Riva promenade at Split. Source: Liz Sier
Split is Croatia’s second largest city and one of the oldest. Founded as a Greek colony in the 4th century BC and later fortified by the Roman Emperor Diocletian in 293-305AD, Split has been under the control of many empires until, with the rest of Croatia, it seceded from Yugoslavia in 1991. The old part of the city exists within the walls of Diocletian’s Palace and has been included in the UNESCO list of World Heritage sites. This feat