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ZADAR MARKET
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  • Updated By DPando on August 31, 2005
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    Popular market as in other cities i saw..Whatever you want you can find it here..above all vegetarian food
    I dont do much memories about this moment

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    CITADEL
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    This part of the citadel is the widest and where you can see more ruins of the past...churches, columns,peddlers everywhere

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    The Cathedral of St....
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  • By ana.gsm on August 26, 2002
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    The Cathedral of St. Stošija:
    The Cathedral of Zadar was dedicated to sv. Stošija or St. Anastasia. This triple-nave edifice was built in two massive campaigns in the 12th and 13th centuries, on the site of an Early-Christian basilica.
    Standing forth from its 13th century frontispiece is the rich ornamentation of its blind arches aligned into horizontal tiers and characteristic of the Tuscan variant of the Romanesque style. The decoration underlines the triple-nave division of the edifice. On the facade, we may also observe a circular aperture or 'rose' executed in the same manner and another Gothic rose window of somewhat smaller proportions, inserted into the pediment of the central nave at later period

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    The Church of St. Donat:The...
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  • By ana.gsm on August 26, 2002
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    The Church of St. Donat:The most outstanding monument of Zadar is, unquestionably, the former church of St. Donat dedicated to the Trinity. The church named after the bishop Donat from the beginning of the 9th century, who is believed to have had erected it, was first recorded in the celebrated work by Byzantine emperor Constantine Porfirogrenetus on the management of a state. Drawing upon the early Byzantine tradition, the edifice was built in the early Middle Ages, most probably at the beginning of the 9th century, as legend has it. It has a circular ground-plan and, like several other buildings of its kind built around Europe at the same period, a double space. Yet, it is a wholly original project for which there exists no prototype. Unfortunately, its original appearance has not been preserved and it now appears devoin of its former south annex. As a consequence, on this side its central volume results visible from outside. The church, leaning on the early Christian Cathedral now makes part of the episcopal complex.

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    The church St. Krsevan: The...
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  • By ana.gsm on August 26, 2002
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    The church St. Krsevan:
    The church of St. Krsevan (Grisogonus) belonged to Benedictine monastery. It is a characteristic example of a monumental Romanesque church of very fine proportions and decent and refined Romanesque ornaments. The church was built in the place of a former 10th century church and consecrated in 1175. The front is very simple, and the only detail of interest in the lower part is the portal with a gable, which was formerly supported by two columns. The gable of the nave is decorated by blind arches. The upper part of the nave front is decorated by a row of blind arches and slim small columns. Twisted small columns and blind arches decorate the southern lateral facade. The surface of the central apse is articulated in the lower part by twisted columns and blind arches, while the upper part is decorated with a gallery of slim columns ending in cub form capitals. The inside of the church is simple. It has a nave and two aisles ending in three semicircular apses. The nave is divided from the aisles by columns and pillars with Cornithian capitals. Remains of two layers of frescoes, both Romanesque, are still found in many places in the church. A mosaic, commissioned in early 13th century by Stana, daughter to the prior Petrane, decorated the main apse. The mosaic was destroyed in 1751. The monumental high altar in the sanctuary was built in 1701 to honor the vow of the citizens made much earlier, in the plague year of 1632. Four beautiful statues in white marble were placed on the altair in 1717 - the patron saints of Zadar: Anastasia, Zoilus, Grisogonus and Simeon. They were carved by the Venetian sculptor Alvise Tagliapietra. The belfry of St. Grisogonus was started in 1485. The work progressed very slowly. It reached the present height in 1546, but it was never completed.

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    The Cathedral of St. Stošija (Anastasia)
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    The cathedral facade
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    Anastasia is one of those countless saints who owes her sainthood to the emperor Diocletian, who lived just down the road in Split and seemed determined - if his rather bad press nowadays courtesy of the christian church can be believed - that through his rigorous policy of martyring as many as possible, the number of christian saints in heaven should exceed in number those left worshipping them on the planet! Her ashes can be found within its 700 year old walls, as can also a rather honest inscription by the church's founder, St Donat, the other local ecclesiastical bigwig and bishop at the time. In a manner that one wished today's Catholic episcopacy could emulate given the amount of scandals they have tried in recent years to hush up, Donat took credit for commissioning this cathedral with the words "Donatus peccatur episcopus fecit" or "I Donat, the sinful bishop, made (this)"!

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    Ancient boundaries
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    • The Terraferma Gate - Zadar
    The Terraferma Gate
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    The Terraferma Gate still stands sentinel over the Eastern portal to the old city of Zadar, the city's only landward entrance. Surrounded on three sides by the sea, and here by a deep moat, the city was for centuries impregnable - a good thing as it withstood the assaults of Slavs, Muslims, Venetians and many more armies over the millennia. The lion of St Mark "marks" this gate out as having been built in Venetian times. Many centuries previously however, the city was known to the Romans as Jadara (later Diadora), and it was very much the "Checkpoint Charlie" of its day, standing as it did on the dividing line between the Western and Eastern Roman Empires, in the province of Illyria, itself divided at the whim of the reigning emperors. Then, as now, tensions often ran high in this mountainous, ungovernable corner of the Mediterranean, and Zadar has been consequently at the centre of many destructive encounters between forces amassed on either side of it - most recently in the Second World War and then the more recent dissolution of the old Yugoslavia, both conflicts having taken their toll on this beknighted seaport. Thankfully the old Roman city still stands proudly in the harbour waters, as much in defiance of history's oft destructive nature as because of it, and proof if proof were needed that human nature, and humanity itself, can survive even the most vicious self-inflicted torments.

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    From Dalmatia to Croatia via Venice
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    • Norodni Trg - Zadar
    Norodni Trg
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    The administrative centre of historic Zadar (or Zara to the Venetians who imposed the street grid that still survives) is Norodni Trg and it was nice to see that the square still retains some of its Venetian architecture. This loggia now serves as the tourist information centre for the old town and is also a great spot to learn of upcoming cultural events that may overlap with your visit.

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    The sinful bishop's own gaff
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    • The basilican edifice of St Donat's - Zadar
    The basilican edifice of
    St Donat's
    by Lochlainn
    The church now named for St Donat is probably Zadar's most prominent landmark and very much its most cherished, though its fabric has not been so lucky over its 1200 year life. That bit which remains however is still quite impressive, and a great testament to the ingenuity of ancient builders when it comes to acquiring raw materials. The exposed base of the giant curved curtain walls plainly reveals the builder's larcenous approach to acquiring ready cut stone for his purposes. Even more ancient Roman pillar segments are clearly visible throughout the masonry, and amazingly some inscribed segments from long lost monuments can be easily discerned strewn randomly through the stonework like pieces of a tantalising, never to be completed, ancient jigsaw.

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    Old and New
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    The harbour at sunset
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    The new town of Zadar is connected across the harbour to the ancient one by means of a long pedestrian footbridge (from which this photo was taken) and this bridge is a favourite haunt of Zadarians in the evening as they cross to the markets of the old town or the nightlife available in the new. With sunsets like this one on offer as an aside, a leisurely pace when doing so is de rigeur!

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