Attractions
City of Trogir
- Road distance: 4 km – approximately 5 minutes’ drive
- UNESCO – Historic Centre of Trogir
- Trogir is an outstanding example of city continuity. The orthogonal street plan of this island settlement dates back to the Hellenistic period, which successive monarchs continued to decorate with various exquisite public and residential buildings and fortifications. Its beautiful Romanesque churches are complemented by exquisite Renaissance and Baroque buildings. The most significant building is Trogir Cathedral with the portal of the western doors, a masterpiece by master Radovan, the most significant example of Romanesque-Gothic art in Croatia.
City of Split
- Road distance – 30 km – cca half an hour drive
- UNESCO – Diocletian’s Palace and the medieval Split
- The Emperor’s Palace is one of the most significant works of late antique architecture, not only for the preservation of individual original parts and the whole, but also in terms of a series of original architectural forms that herald the new early Christian, Byzantine and early medieval art. The cathedral was built in the Middle Ages using materials from an ancient mausoleum. Romanesque churches from the twelfth and thirteenth
centuries, medieval fortifications, and Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque palaces are located within the Roman walls, thus forming a harmonious whole.
City of Dubrovnik
- Road distance from Hotel Medena: 255 km – cca three hours drive
- Air distance from Hotel Medena: 180 km
- UNESCO – The “Pearl of the Adriatic” became an important power of Mediterranean after the 13th century. This medieval planned city on the southern part of the Croatian coast of the eastern Adriatic, with its historic core located at the foot of Mount Srđ, has preserved throughout the centuries, the character of a unique urban entity defined by city walls, which holds a significant place in the history of urban planning. Although
significantly destroyed by the earthquake in 1667, Dubrovnik managed to preserve its Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque churches, monasteries, palaces and fountains.
City of Zadar
- Road distance: 130 km, cca hour and a half drive
- Zadar is an ancient city, built in the center of the Croatian Adriatic, full of historical and cultural sights. Three thousand years old, a city with a long, turbulent and dynamic history. Today, the city of Zadar is a preserved monument of different historical times and cultures.
City of Šibenik
- Road distance: 44 km, cca 45 min drive
- UNESCO – Cathedral of St. Jakov in Šibenik
- The Cathedral of St. Jakov, built between 1431 and 1535, is a witness of important exchanges in the field of monumental art between Northern Italy, Dalmatia and Tuscany in the 15th and 16th centuries. Three architects – Francesco di Giacomo, Juraj Dalmatinac and Nikola Florentinac – developed a structure built entirely of stone using a
unique technique for the cathedral dome.
Plitvice lakes
- Road distance: 227 km, cca 3 hours drive
- UNESCO – National park Plitvice lakes
- Plitvice owes its beauty and unsurpassed attractiveness to travertine and travertine – forming plants. The formation of travertine and the damming of the riverbed created a series of 16 Plitvice Lakes, which represent a magnificent architectural phenomenon of nature surrounded by dense forests inhabited by bears, wolves and many other rare animal and plant species.