Šibenik Town Library
The town library “ Juraj Šižgorić” is the largest and most significant library in the Šibenik Knin county. It was established on the 17 th February 1922 , and from 1970 it’s named Juraj Šižgorić…
The town library “ Juraj Šižgorić” is the largest and most significant library in the Šibenik Knin county. It was established on the 17 th February 1922 , and from 1970 it’s named Juraj Šižgorić…
Jadrija The city’s beach and holiday flats area, Jadrija, was founded in 1921 on St. Andrew’s (Sv. Andrija’s) island. An extension of Adriatic tourist motorway and a ferry line (in the summer) connect this pinewood-covered…
Great artists of Šibenik in the Humanism and Renaissance periods, and in XIX ct. Šibenik was a place of many artists who all left behind valuable pieces of art. Along with Juraj Dalmatinac and Nikola…
The Zadar-Sibenik region is situated in a national park ring. The Plitvice and Paklenica national parks in the north and Krka National Park in the northeast surround the region, and on the coastal side the…
Rogoznica This municipality and tourist resort in the county’s southernmost area consists of two parts: the mainland called Kopaca and the Kopara islet, which was artificially connected with the mainland. The former has been inhabited…
The archipelago consists of 249 islands, islets and reefs, which forms an area of 157 square kilometers. Six of them are permanently inhabited (by around 6600 people). Zlarin The island of corals with a single…
Origin and development at the time of Croatian national leaders Arriving Croats built a fortress (castrum) of Šibenik on the western side of a Karst agrarian areas called Gornje and Donje polje, on a stony…
In the part called Grad, the following monuments of sacral architecture stand out by its completeness, coherence and stylistic peculiarities. St. John’s church It is a gothic renaissance construction dating from the second half of…
Biskupija It was actually the Bishop of Knin’s estate in the old days and this fact provided its name (eng. “diacese”). It is the most significant early medieval archeological site in Croatia . The remainder…
Not only does its beauty make it the greatest and most valuable object in Šibenik’s architectural heritage but it is the characteristic and outstanding solutions to the technical and structural problems of construction that make…