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Showing posts with label · CROATIA Split. Show all posts

12 September 2016

SPLIT, Croatia. Statue of Grgur Ninski

SPLIT, Croatia

Statue of medieval bishop Grgur Ninski [Gregorius Ninnius, Gregory of Nin, 10th century]. He opposed
the Papacy in 926 and replaced Latin in the liturgy by the Slavonic language in Glagolitic alphabet. The sculpture is a work made in 1929 by the sculptor Ivan Meštrović (Vrpolje, Slavonia, 15 August 1883 - South Bend, Indiana, United States, 16 January 1962).

Photo © Zorica Vuković [v.zoka in Instagram], 07.2016.

SPLIT, Croatia. Fontana Pirja

SPLIT, Croatia

Marmontova ulica.

Fontana Pirja [Funnel fountain], a work of the sculptor Kažimir Hraste (Brač island, 2 February 1954), unveiled in 1998.

Photo © Zorica Vuković [v.zoka in Instagram], 07.2016.

30 August 2016

SPLIT, Croatia. Dioklecijanova palača

SPLIT, Croatia

Remains of the superstructure of the Silver Gate (Porta Argentea) on the east side of Diocletian's Palace (Dioklecijanova palača), built by the Roman Emperor Diocletian (244-311) in the late fourth century AD.

SPLIT, Croatia. Dioklecijanova palača

SPLIT, Croatia

One of the granite sphinxes 3500-years-old, originating in Egypt, located in the Palace of Diocletian (Dioklecijanova palača), built by the Roman Emperor Diocletian (244-311) in the late fourth century AD for personal use and housing military garrison. In November 1979, UNESCO adopted a proposal that the historic city of Split, built around the palace should be included in the register of World Cultural Heritage.