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DALMATIA – ŠIBENIK REGION
The guardian of Mediterranean architecture that marked the world
Starting from Zadar and moving towards the south, we come to the Dalmatia
- Šibenik Region, known for its national parks Krka and Kornati. This region,
which constitutes the Šibenik-Knin County, also has very valuable cultural heritage.
After all, the county itself was named after its two most important historical
cities - the capital, and today the more important Šibenik along the Adriatic
coast, and the second, but more important in the past, the royal town of Knin in
the interior of the Dalmatian hinterland.
The Šibenik part of Dalmatia and the neighbouring Zadar area consist of three
parts - the coastal area, in which the central part is the city of Šibenik, the islands of
Murter, Prvić, Kaprije, Žirje, Zlarin and Krapanj, and the vast Dalmatian hinterland
around the towns of Drniš and Knin. Although in the Šibenik area there are no large
islands, the Kornati archipelago consists of the largest number of islands in all the
Adriatic region.
Like other parts of Dalmatia, the Šibenik area also has numerous cultural monuments
dating from prehistoric to present times. Here we have a particular abundance
of archaeological monuments from the Illyrian, Roman and early medieval period,
with the most valuable monuments being from the 15th and16th centuries. This area
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