The trip, in order
Follow the route day by day. Times and prices can change, so check official information before you travel.
Pula
Pula
- 1
Pula Arena
One of the best-preserved Roman amphitheatres, standing close to Pula’s harbour with its complete outer wall. Built during the first century, the arena hosted spectacles for Roman Pola and later served varied civic and cultural uses.
- Duration
- 120 minutes suggested
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- 2
Temple of Augustus
A finely preserved Roman temple on Pula’s Forum, now displaying a small collection of ancient sculpture. Dedicated during the early Roman imperial period, the temple survived through later reuse and post-war reconstruction.
- Duration
- 60 minutes suggested
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- 3
Arch of the Sergii
An ornate Roman triumphal arch marking the entrance to Pula’s pedestrian old town. The Sergii family commissioned the arch in the late first century BCE beside a city gate that no longer survives.
- Duration
- 30 minutes suggested
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Rovinj
Rovinj
- 1
Rovinj Old Town and St Euphemia Church
A dense hilltop old town of stone lanes crowned by the Church of St Euphemia above the Adriatic. Rovinj developed on an island later joined to the mainland, with Venetian rule shaping its tall houses and campanile.
- Duration
- 180 minutes suggested
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- 2
Rovinj Harbour and Grisia Street
A colourful working harbour leading into Grisia, the stepped artists’ street climbing toward the old town summit. Fishing, maritime trade and later tourism shaped Rovinj’s waterfront, while Grisia became associated with local artists and open-air exhibitions.
- Duration
- 90 minutes suggested
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Kvarner Coast
Opatija
- 1
Opatija Lungomare
A long coastal promenade linking Opatija’s villas, parks, coves and neighbouring seaside settlements. The walkway developed with Opatija’s rise as an Austro-Hungarian health resort from the late nineteenth century.
- Duration
- 150 minutes suggested
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- 2
Villa Angiolina and Croatian Museum of Tourism
A landmark villa in a botanical park that explains Opatija’s emergence as one of the Adriatic’s earliest fashionable resorts. Built in the mid-nineteenth century, Villa Angiolina helped trigger elite tourism on the Kvarner coast.
- Duration
- 90 minutes suggested
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Krk Island
Krk
- 1
Krk Old Town and Frankopan Castle
A compact walled island town with Roman foundations, medieval lanes and a Frankopan castle facing the harbour. Krk was an important Roman and medieval centre, while the Frankopan family became one of Croatia’s leading noble dynasties.
- Duration
- 150 minutes suggested
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- 2
Vrbnik Old Town
A tightly packed stone town perched on cliffs above the sea, known for narrow lanes and Žlahtina wine. Vrbnik was a medieval Frankopan town and a centre of Glagolitic literacy, later maintaining a strong wine-growing identity.
- Duration
- 120 minutes suggested
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Pag Island
Pag
- 1
Pag Old Town and Lace Gallery
A planned Renaissance island town known for stone streets, salt, sheep cheese and an intricate lace tradition. Pag was rebuilt to a planned design in the fifteenth century, while local women developed a lace craft now recognised as intangible heritage.
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- 120 minutes suggested
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- 2
Pag Saltworks
A broad salt-production landscape that explains one of Pag island’s oldest and most important industries. Salt pans shaped Pag’s economy and politics for centuries, using sun, wind and shallow basins to concentrate seawater.
- Duration
- 90 minutes suggested
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Zadar
Zadar
- 1
Church of St Donatus
A monumental circular pre-Romanesque church that has become the architectural symbol of Zadar. Built around the ninth century, the church reused Roman stone from the neighbouring forum and later served varied civic uses.
- Duration
- 60 minutes suggested
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- 2
Zadar Sea Organ
A waterfront installation that turns wave movement into resonant sounds through pipes beneath the marble steps. Architect Nikola Bašić created the Sea Organ during the reconstruction of Zadar’s western waterfront in the early 2000s.
- Duration
- 60 minutes suggested
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- 3
Greeting to the Sun
A circular solar-powered light installation beside the Sea Organ, most effective after dark. The installation was designed as a companion to the Sea Organ, linking solar energy, public space and the rhythm of the waterfront.
- Duration
- 45 minutes suggested
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Šibenik
Šibenik
- 1
Šibenik Cathedral of St James
A UNESCO-listed cathedral built entirely in stone, celebrated for its sculpted human heads and innovative dome construction. The cathedral was created across the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries by masters including Juraj Dalmatinac and Nikola Firentinac.
- Duration
- 90 minutes suggested
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- 2
St Michael’s Fortress
A restored hilltop fortress above the old town, combining city history with an open-air performance venue. The fortress occupies Šibenik’s earliest defended hill and was repeatedly adapted as regional powers contested the Adriatic coast.
- Duration
- 90 minutes suggested
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Split
Split
- 1
Diocletian’s Palace
A living Roman palace complex whose streets, houses, shops and churches form the historic core of Split. Emperor Diocletian built the palace around the turn of the fourth century; medieval residents later transformed it into a dense city quarter.
- Duration
- 180 minutes suggested
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- 2
Palace Cellars
Vast vaulted substructures beneath the palace that preserve the footprint of the emperor’s residential apartments. The cellars survived because they supported the palace above and later accumulated material that protected ancient masonry.
- Duration
- 75 minutes suggested
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- 3
Split Riva Promenade
Split’s palm-lined waterfront living room, set directly against the south façade of Diocletian’s Palace. The modern promenade took shape through nineteenth-century waterfront works, while the palace edge preserves Roman and later fabric.
- Duration
- 75 minutes suggested
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Hvar
Hvar
- 1
Hvar Town and St Stephen’s Square
A polished historic harbour town centred on a broad stone square, cathedral and Venetian civic buildings. Hvar prospered as a strategic Venetian naval station and trading port, while its communal institutions supported early public theatre.
- Duration
- 180 minutes suggested
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- 2
Fortica Fortress
A hilltop fortress above Hvar Town with commanding views over the harbour and Pakleni islands. The present fortress largely reflects Venetian rebuilding after earlier medieval defences, protecting the town and naval station.
- Duration
- 90 minutes suggested
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Stari Grad
Stari Grad
- 1
Stari Grad Old Town and Tvrdalj Castle
One of Croatia’s oldest towns, with stone lanes and the fortified Renaissance residence of poet Petar Hektorović. Greek settlers founded Pharos in 384 BCE; later layers include Hektorović’s sixteenth-century Tvrdalj and fishpond.
- Duration
- 150 minutes suggested
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- 2
Stari Grad Plain
A UNESCO-listed agricultural landscape preserving the field divisions laid out by Greek colonists in the fourth century BCE. Ancient stone boundaries and paths remained in use through centuries of farming, creating an exceptional living cultural landscape.
- Duration
- 150 minutes suggested
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Makarska Riviera
Makarska
- 1
Makarska Waterfront and Old Town
A lively harbour promenade backed by the steep wall of Biokovo and linked to a compact historic centre. Makarska developed as a maritime and trading town between mountain and sea, with Baroque rebuilding shaping its central squares.
- Duration
- 120 minutes suggested
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- 2
Brela Punta Rata Beach
A pine-edged pebble beach known for clear water and the small offshore Brela Stone. Brela developed along a chain of coves beneath Biokovo, with the beach landscape becoming central to the Riviera’s identity.
- Duration
- 150 minutes suggested
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Ston and Pelješac
Ston
- 1
Ston Walls
A long medieval defensive system climbing the ridge between Ston and Mali Ston above salt pans and oyster waters. The Republic of Ragusa built and expanded the walls to protect the Pelješac isthmus and its valuable saltworks.
- Duration
- 150 minutes suggested
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- 2
Ston Saltworks
Historic salt pans still using a grid of shallow basins beside the fortified town. Salt production was a major source of Ragusan wealth and helped explain the scale of Ston’s medieval defences.
- Duration
- 90 minutes suggested
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Dubrovnik Old Town
Dubrovnik
- 1
Stradun and Dubrovnik Old Town
The polished limestone main street and surrounding lanes of the UNESCO-listed former Republic of Ragusa. Dubrovnik rebuilt much of its centre after the 1667 earthquake while preserving a highly ordered civic and mercantile identity.
- Duration
- 180 minutes suggested
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- 2
Rector’s Palace
The former seat of the Ragusan rector, now a cultural-history museum with elegant courtyards and state rooms. The palace was repeatedly rebuilt after explosions and earthquakes, combining Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque elements.
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- 90 minutes suggested
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- 3
Dubrovnik Cathedral and Treasury
A Baroque cathedral whose treasury preserves important reliquaries and works connected with Dubrovnik’s patron saint. The present church replaced an earlier cathedral damaged in the 1667 earthquake, on a site with deeper medieval origins.
- Duration
- 75 minutes suggested
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Walls and Lokrum
Dubrovnik
- 1
Dubrovnik City Walls
A complete circuit of monumental walls offering close views of Dubrovnik’s roofs, forts and the Adriatic. The walls were developed and strengthened over centuries by the Republic of Ragusa as the core of its defensive system.
- Duration
- 150 minutes suggested
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- 2
Lokrum Island
A protected island a short boat ride from the Old Port, with woodland, rocky swimming and monastic ruins. Lokrum’s Benedictine history, Habsburg-era gardens and protected natural landscape created a layered island retreat.
- Duration
- 240 minutes suggested
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