Croatian cultural heritage - Business - Hrvatska turistička zajednica

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"The Gold and Silver of Zadar", exhibits many works of art
made from gold and precious stones, especially crosses (12)
and valuable religious paintings (15).
Zadar’s historical core is filled with various cultural monuments
- walls, towers, churches, palaces, public buildings
and majestic gates. Among the towers, the one that stands
out in particular is the Captain’s Tower (11), and among the
gates, the Land Gate (12), a masterpiece of the late Renaissance
architect Michele Sammichelia. The Museum of Antique
Glass is also located in Zadar, and it exhibits a unique
set collection (14). Outside the walls of Zadar there are
some modern architectural works, among which are a new
sports complex with a basketball court and indoor swimming
pool (17) and Greeting to the Sun (18) - an interesting
visual installation.
Since Zadar was the centre of Byzantine Dalmatia in the early
Middle Ages, the main church centre around the Croatian
Kingdom was the city of NIN. Here, on a picturesque island
(27), which can be entered through several old gates (22 &
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since the 9th century BC. Nin became the headquarters of
Croatian bishops, and an extremely valuable and very distinctive
medieval church of the Holy Cross was built there
in the 11th century (30), while the interior of the city was
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