Best Things To Do In Zadar, Croatia Travel Guide
This video is Zadar travel guide which is part of Croatia travel guide. It will show you best things to do in Zadar. Visit Zadar, Croatia and enjoy its rich history of the city located along Dalmatian coast overlooking the Adriatic Sea.
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Best things to do in Zadar includes:
St. Donatus’ Church: Over time St. Donatus’ tall, rounded outline has become a symbol and a source of pride for Zadar, the first building you’ll see on postcards.
Roman Forum: Zadar’s is the largest Roman forum east of the Adriatic. It was established by Emperor Augustus at the turn of the first century.
St. Mary’s Church: On the eastern edge of Zadar’ forum is St Mary’s, belonging to a Benedictine Monastery founded in the 11th century.
Museum of Ancient Glass: #Croatia is flush with Roman heritage and many of the glass items recovered from digs have ended up at this contemporary museum in the stately confines of the Cosmacendi Palace
St. Anastasia’s Cathedral: Zadar’s cathedral is on the site of a very early Christian basilica that was founded back in the year 300.
National Museum: This is a regional museum that gives a deeper look into the natural history, ethnology and artistic heritage of the wider Zadar region.
St. Simeon’s Church: This church is most famous for what lies inside. The exterior is attractive, but relatively nondescript compared to others in the city.
Sea Organ: At the tip of the old town’s peninsula is this imaginative and award-winning art installation.
Greeting to the Sun: The Sea Organ’s sister, this was also designed by Nikola Bašić and is found at the end of the peninsula looking out over the Adriatic and offshore islands
Archaeological Museum: Also set on the Forum, this attraction displays the impressive Prehistoric, Illyrian Roman, Byzantine and medieval artefacts recovered in and around Zadar.
Five Wells Square: You’ve heard about the city walls that the Venetians built to keep the Ottomans at bay, but none of that would have been much use without a clean water supply.
Paklenica National Park: This park protects a variety of karst formations neighbouring the coast among them caves, cliffs and high peaks.
Plitvice Lakes National Park: Although the Plitvice Lakes are about 90 minutes north of Zadar you simply have to make the journey
City Walls and Gates: #Zadar has the distinction of never falling to the Ottomans and this is down to the formidable defence system that the Venetians constructed in the 1500s.
Today, Zadar is a historical center of Dalmatia, Zadar County's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, educational, and transportation centre. Zadar is also the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Zadar. Because of its rich heritage, Zadar is today one of the most popular Croatian tourist destinations, named entertainment center of the Adriatic.
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Zadar Cathedral
Cathedral of St. Anastasia
Croatian: Katedrala sv. Stošije
Zadar Cathedral
44°6′58.5″N 15°13′28″E
Coordinates: 44°6′58.5″N 15°13′28″E
Location
Zadar
Country
Croatia
Denomination
Roman Catholic
History
Status
Cathedral
Relics held
Relics and sarcophagus of Saint Anastasia
Architecture
Functional status
Active
Style
Romanesque
Gothic (some parts)
Years built
4th & 5th centuries
12th & 13th centuries
Administration
Archdiocese
Zadar
Cathedral interior, 2015
Cathedral's side altar with tabernacle
The Cathedral of St. Anastasia (Croatian: Katedrala sv. Stošije) is the Roman Catholic cathedral of Zadar, Croatia, seat of the Archdiocese of Zadar, and the largest church in all of Dalmatia (the coastal region of Croatia).
The church's origins date back to a Christian basilica built in the 4th and 5th centuries, while much of the currently standing three-nave building was constructed in the Romanesque style during the 12th and 13th centuries. The site has been submitted to UNESCO's Tentative List of World Heritage Sites.[1]
The first known bishop in Zadar was Felix. He attended two church councils, the first in Aquileia in 381 and the second in Milan in 390. The basilica's original patron was St. Peter. During the time of bishop Donatus, the diocese received the ashes of Saint Anastasia of Sirmium from Emperor Nikephoros I, whom the cathedral took as patron. Donatus commissioned a sarcophagus for the remains, which are still held in the cathedral. The church was largely remade in the 11th-12th centuries, and reconsecrated by Pope Alexander VII in 1177.
During the siege of Zadar by the Venetians and Crusaders in 1202, the cathedral was heavily damaged. For the entire 13th century the building was under repair. It was reconsecrated on 27 May 1285,[2] although the new building, designed in a fashion similar to the Santa Maria della Piazza church in Ancona, was completed only in 1324.
Ground floor and first floor of the bell tower were built in 1452. To complete the construction, Sir Thomas Graham Jackson was hired and the tower was finished in 1893.[3]
Pope John Paul II came to the cathedral on June 9, 2003, on one of his last international travels.
The façade, completed in 1324, has two orders: the lower and more massive one has three portals, the central one being crowned by a bas-relief of Madonna and Child with Sts. Crisogonus and Anastasia; the upper one culminates in a triangular pediment, and is decorated with four orders of Lombard bands. These include a large Romanesque-style rose window and a smaller one in Gothic style. The left edge of the façade is decorated with a statue of a lion, and the right edge with a statue of a bull: these are symbols of the evangelists Mark and Luke, respectively. The richly decorated main portal contains a bas relief of the four apostles. The lunette of the left portal is decorated with a statue of the mystical lamb, while the consoles near the vault contain statues of angel Gabriel and Virgin Mary, which are older than the portal.
The interior has a nave and two aisles, the former three times larger than the latter, which are separated by alternately arranged stone pillars and pylons. The presbytery is elevated; the 12th century crypt is located under it. In the presbytery are choir stalls, executed in Gothic style by 15th century master Matej Morozan; above the main altar is the early Gothic ciborium from 1322, while beyond it is a stone seat made for the Archbishop. On the northern wall of the marble altar are pictures of St. Dominic and the Sacred Heart. The altar was transferred from the eponymous church. The second altar is dedicated to the souls in Purgatory and was built by the Venetian stonemason Peter Onega in 1805. The altarpiece is a work of art by Josip Palma Jr. At the end of the nave is a marble altar with a marble paneling depicting the Sacred Heart, while the apse houses a marble sarcophagus with the relics of St. Anastasia with the inscription by Bishop Donat (9th century). There are also fragments of medieval frescoes in the Cathedral.
The southern aisle is home to a marble altar used for storing relics. Next to it is the altar of St. Sacrament, by sculptor A. Viviani from the year 1718. The altar has rich decorations with columns and statues. Above the tabernacle is the statue of the Madonna with the dead Christ lying in her lap, with statues of Moses and Elijah on the sides. On the altar wings there are larger statues of the four evangelists, and, below them, figures of virtues and, on an antependium, a statue of the Lamb of God. The southern aisle ends with an apse housing remains of frescoes. Above the aisles is a matroneum.
The church has a hexagonal baptistery that dates back to the 6th century, located on the south side of the cathedral. The original baptistery was destroyed in the bombed.
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Church of St. Simon Old town (Zadar)
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In the 15th century a Franciscan monastery was built together with the church of Saint Mary of Mercy. Architecturaly proportional bell-tower, together with the one of Saint Mark and the Cathedral one creates an exceptional vertical frame of the town. Relief of the church portrays ''Denouncement'' and it came from the workshop of Petar Fiorentinac. The church keeps a painting of the crucifixion of Christ by Leonardo Basan, poliptih by Francesco de Santa Croce and paintings of the passion of Christ by a Hvar comediographer Martin Benetović – the author of ''Hvarkinja'' (the woman from Hvar). The western wall of the monastery refectory holds a painting of the Last Supper, one of the most famous paintings on the Adriatic coast made on the tradition of Venetian painters Veronese and Tintoretti. Traditionally it is attributed to Mateo Rosseli, but according to recent studies to one of our painters Mateo Ponzzoni Pončun.
The monastery museum holds valuable paintings, collection of money, incunabulas and a copy of Ptolemy's atlas from 1524. A famous old cypress tree grows in the monastery garden, besides its old age known also for its amorphic form. This ancient cypress does not grow in height as other specimens of that kind, but with its flat branches grows horizontally across the garden. The Way of the Cross leads from the monastery to town, marked by 14 chapels representing 14 Stations of the Cross, built in the 18th century.
St Donat & Roman Ruins Zadar,Croatia
The Circular Church of St Donat was built over the Roman Forum. Outside are the Roman Ruins, including pillars,altars and figures. To the north is the beautiful Byzantine St Grisogonus Church. Background music is Talk to Me by Jingle Punks.
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Zadar (Croatia) - January 2007 : Land Gate, Petra Zoronice Place, Narodna Place, St Simeon, Market, St Chrysogonus, Ste Mary, Roman Forum, St Donatus, St Anastasia's Cathedral, Closter St Francis, St Elijah's Church.
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The Church of St Donatus is a church located in Zadar, Croatia. Its name refers to Donatus of Zadar, who began construction on this church in the 9th century and ended it on the northeastern part of the Roman forum.[2]
Originally named Church of the Holy Trinity,[3] in the 15th century it was re-dedicated to St Donatus.[4] The church is the largest Pre-Romanesque building in Croatia. It is also an example of the centralised type of the Carolingian period in Europe.[citation needed]
The beginning of the building of the church was placed to the second half of the 8th century, and it is supposed to be completed in the 9th century. The Zadar bishop and diplomat Donat (8th and 9th centuries) is credited with the building of the church. He led the representations of the Dalmatian cities to Constantinople and Charles the Great, which is why this church bears slight resemblance to Charlemagne's court chapels, especially the one in Aachen (now Aachen Cathedral),[5] and also to the Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna.[6] It belongs to the Pre-Romanesque architectural period.
The circular church, formerly domed, is 27 m high and is characterised by simplicity and technical primitivism. It has three radially situated apses and an ambulatory around the central area, surmounted by circular gallery. The circular shape is typical of the early medieval age in Dalmatia.[1] It was built on the Roman forum, and materials from buildings in the latter were used in its construction.[7] Among the fragments which are built into the foundations it is still possible to distinguish the remains of a sacrificial altar on which is written IVNONI AVGUSTE IIOVI AVGUSTO.[5]
The use of the church has varied during its lifetime; during the rule of the Republic of Venice it was a warehouse, as well as during the French occupation and under the Austrians. After the city was annexed to Yugoslavia, it served as an archaeological museum for a short period of time. The building is currently used as the concert venue for the annual International Festival of Medieval Renaissance Music (Musical Evenings in St Donatus) due to the building's interiors and acoustics.[8]
Zadar - Croatia (Horvátország)
Zadar Horvátország egyik legszebb és legismertebb városa.
Az ókori város a horvát Adria kellős közepére épült. Az elmúlt háromezer évben a várost többször kifosztották, lerombolták és felégették. Legutoljára 1991-ben a délszláv háború idején kapott erős, pusztító támadást. Mára Zadar az összes sebét begyógyította. A megrongált épületeket helyreállították. Teljesen megújult energiával és arculattal várja minden évben az ide látogató turistákat a világ minden tájáról.
Zadar óvárosa tele van látnivalókkal és történelmi emlékművekkel. Egy alapos zadari séta jól fél naposra is rúghat. Amit mindenképpen érdemes megnézni az a Szent Donát körtemplom és az előtte elhelyezkedő Fórum, az Öt kút tere, a Városkapú, a Tengeri orgona és a Nap köszöntése alkotás.
01:10 - The Land Gate (Városkapu)
01:58 - Trg Petra Zoranica / Roman column (Római oszlop)
02:51 - Church of Saint Simeon (Szt. Simon-templom)
03:11 - Five Wells Square (Öt kút tere) / Trg Pet Bunara
04:08 - Park of Queen Jelena Madijevka
04:57 - Narodni trg
05:45 - St. Anastasia Cathedral (Szt. Anasztázia-templom)
06:05 - Church of Saint Donat (Szt. Donát-templom)
06:50 - Roman Forum (Római fórum)
08:05 - Church and Monastery of St. Mary (Szt. Mária-templom)
10:30 - Church of Our Lady of Health
12:12 - Greeting to the Sun / The Memorial Sun
(A Nap köszöntése / A Nap emlékműve)
13:19 - Sea Organ (Tengeri orgona)
18:00 - Archaeological Museum (Régészeti Múzeum)
Saint Donatus Church , Zadar Croatia 8 10 2013 FULL HD
Saint Donatus Church , Zadar Croatia 8 10 2013 FULL HD
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Early Morning In Zadar
Testing out my Mavic an early morning April 2017 in lovely Zadar, Croatia.
The sound is also from Zadar on various occasions:
- Chanting : Morning mass at the Benedictine Convent of St. Mary
- Bells : All the bells at once
- Sea Organ : Recoded during day time when there were more waves.
Saint Donatus Church , Zadar Croatia 8 10 2013 FULL HD
Saint Donatus Church , Zadar Croatia 8 10 2013 FULL HD
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Zadar City in Croatia
Zadar City in Croatia
DescriptionZadar, a city on Croatia’s Dalmatian coast, is known for the Roman and Venetian ruins of its peninsular Old Town. There are several Venetian gates in the city walls. Surrounding the Roman-era Forum is 11th-century St. Mary’s Convent, with religious art dating to the 8th century. There’s also the grand, 12th-century St. Anastasia’s Cathedral and the round, 9th-century pre-Romanesque Church of St. Donatus.
Area: 25 km²
Weather: 16°C, Wind E at 14 km/h, 81% Humidity
Local time: Thursday 07:20
Mayor: Branko Dukić (HDZ)