TROGIR AND SURROUNDINGS

Trogir is one of the settlements, for which you could say, they exist from the beginning. The ancient archaeological findings are dated about 20th century B.C., but the story of Trogir, we could say, starts in the 3rd and 2nd century B.C. The Illyrians wrote its first pages of history, and the Greeks and Romans built the town. In the 7th century Croats proceeded it till the present days, either by his own or under the temporary authority of Byzantium, Hungary, Venice, France, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and others who has passed through Trogir´s history and left their trail carved in the cultural and historical inheritance of the town.

Trogir is a town of long memories, by its legends, myths, and its artistic and humanistic tradition. Many dates, persons and acts in the cultural history of Dalmatia and Croatia, are to be connected with Trogir. The relief of the Greek deity Kairos from the 4th century B.C., roman fragments and rustically old-Croatian art will occupy your attention. But you will also held your breath in front of the romanic portal of Master Radovan at the entrance in the Trogir cathedral as well as the masterpieces of Nikola Firentinac, Blaž Jurjev, Ivan Duknović, Andrija Aleši and other great masters. Yet the greatest value of Trogir is its monumental entirety, its historical essence, and its collective artistic act built and grinded by centuries, which is the reason Trogir has been, in 1997, assigned in the UNESCO Register of the world cultural heritage.

The tumultuous history of this town, filled with fascinating events and amazing legends, still engraved in its stony face, you will experience on the ancient walls and towers, mystic streets, harmony of the colours of the centennial stone, mediteranean vegetation, see, sky and sun. Between the stony monuments you will be able to follow the continuity of life and human creativity in the environment, where the sun and the see, the stone and the nature, are the integral part of life. If you take a walk through the stony streets of Trogir, threadbare through centuries, you will touch the past and the present, the reality and the dream.

Trogir is today a popular touristic destination, beside the fact that it is a "Museum town", because of the numerous restaurants, which are offering famous gastronomic specialities from Trogir and Dalmatia. The summer cultural and entertaining offer is also rich. In the old part of the town, on small squares, in narrow streets and yards and on the renovated boardwalk, there are lot of café-bars, restaurants, pizzerias and "konobas". In the most beautiful city interiors, during the tourist season, as a part of the cultural manifestation "Trogir´s cultural summer", lot of concerts of chorale, classic and folklore music, take place. Modern galleries and museums are organising different exhibits of domestic and foreign fine art masters.