Sibenik Favorites

Favorite thing: Sibenik is small town in Dalmatia,but it is so beautifuly.People are very nice.In Sibenik you can see a very old part of the town.There are a very good complex of hotels name *Solaris*,there you can find everything.Beaches are beautiful.Sea is very clean.For parents with baby,there is people who get care of your children.Also,near Sibenik is the oldest town in Dalmatia-Skardona(Skradin) and there is started a National Park Krka.to there you can go by boat,car,bus.There you can see where is river go into the sea,and make a lake Prokljan.Best time to visit the Sibenik is July and August,when is summer.There is also camps,others hotels.I go there every summer,who wonts some advice or help can ask me.

Fondest memory: Every summer me and my family go in Dalmatia,my children are very happy in Sibenik and village near Sibenik,Sonkovic.There I dont wory that something bad can hapened to my kids.

Favorite thing: * Tourism Office
Obala Dr. Franje Tuðmana 5
HR- 22000 Šibenik

- Tel.: (+385) 022 214 41/214 448
- Fax: (+385) 022 214 266

- E. mail: tz.grada.sibenika@si.t-com.hr
- Internet:
www.sibenik.hr
www.sibenik-tourism.hr

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Fondest memory: I visited In Sibenik-Rokici, Ilija Odak and saw his wonderful pictures and it was absolutely amazing to see this wonderful art.
I won't say anything , judge by yourself :) Hope you will like it as I did !!!

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Favorite thing: I have been unable to identify this church. I do not feel it is Sveti Frane (San Francesco) as, as far as I remember, it is a little up-hill to the old city. If I am not wrong, it stands between Ulica Ante Starcevica and ulica Stjepane Radica and on the different maps I have looked at, it has no name, which should mean it has no interest !.

However, if it is true that the bell tower has nothing special (first photo), it has a side entrance (second photo) with on top (enlarged on the third photo) a bearded man with the right arm raised (blessing the people ?) while in the left hand, it holds two huge keys. Leyle (VT The WanderingCamel), because of the keys, identifies him as Saint Peter. Thank you Leyle for your contribution!

The fourth photo shows in a niche a young man clad in a medieval garment, holding a (broken) spear in his right hand while he bears a stone with a Malta cross in his left hand. On the right, a snake is certainly trying some evil doing ! This is why it is here, isn't it ?

I suppose it is one of the following : St. John's church, St. Krsevan's church, St. Lovre's church and monastery, The New church, St Grgur's church, St Frane's monastery and church, St. Nikola's church, St. Dominic's church, The church of Uspanie Bogomatere, The church of Holy Ghost, St Barbara's church. But which one is it ?

Favorite thing: In a side street, the attention of the photographer was caught by the entrance shown on the photo. There was not enough room to shoot the whole doorway and I took the most interesting part, the top. There is a coat of arm with an oblique stripe and two flowers (roses ?), one on each side of the stripe. I will try to identify it.

Favorite thing: Don't miss to visit the breathtaking National Park Krka, which is located near the town of Sibenik. Here you can enjoy in walking, bathing under the waterfalls, sightseeing ....

Fondest memory: Check my page of NP Krka, the pictures can say more then the words.

Favorite thing: Sibenik was mentioned for the first time during the reign of King Petar Kresimir IV (1058-1074), who brought the Croatian medieval state to the peak of the political and military power. From the document of King Petar Kresimir IV, which was issued by him in Sibenik on December 25, 1066 to the Zadar Benedictine monastery of St. Mary, we learn that he stayed and ruled in Sibenik at that time, with all his state dignitaries and the whole episcopate of his kingdom. His inheritors, Kings Zvonimir and Stjepan II, temporarily stayed and dealt with state affairs in ?ibenik. King Stjepan II (1089-1090) was the last ruler from the Croatian dynasty of Trpimirovici. After him, political conditions in Croatia became very unstable enabling the military and political intervention of Zvonimir's brother-in-law, the Hungarian King Ladislav so that Croatia finally entered the state union with Hungary in 1102. The Hungarian-Croatian kings became the soverigns of ?ibenik as well.

Fondest memory: The town of Sibenik is colloquially known as Kresimir's town.

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Favorite thing: The fortress of St. Ana was called in older time the fort of St. Mihovil. Its oldest forms, dimensions and aspect are unknown. It had been ruined several times until the beginning of the 15th century, when it was built in today's form by white dressed stone.
In its north-east part, the remnants of material culture from the Iron Age were found. It is quite certain that the Croats had erected their fort at the place where there was the "gradina" of old Illyrians.