2025-05-19 Split
We drove all the way to Split, visited the old town and what remains of Diocletians palace, had lunch and then we went walking through Marjan forest park. Wonderfully quiet.
On the way to the city center, I spotted a passion flower. So beautiful. They look like cosmic spaceships or psychedelic temples in miniature.
Blaue Passionsblume
Passiflora caerulea
The marina in front of the old town. Half the old town is within the perimeter of Diocletian's palace.
The water is dirty and smells bad.
They turned Diocletian's mausoleum into the cathedral.
There are places where you can see two levels of cellars and three or four levels of buildings. This is how I like my dungeon ruins. 😄
What impressed me the most is that people live in the midst of these fantastic ruins.
We went into the cathedral. It's a small octagonal building because it used to be Diocletions tomb. I was not impressed.
Looking back over the corner with the carden (to the left) and the low walls from where one could peek into the cellars.
We had enough after a while, had a small lunch and decided to head into the Marjan forest park. The stairs up start in the old town.
Barbary fig
Opuntia ficus-indica
Stechendes Sternauge
Pallenis spinosa
Dry stone walls everywhere. Later there was even an info board talking about dry stone wall building.
The trail from the end of the stairs to Sedlow is wide, flat, and beautiful.
Johannisbrotbaum
Ceratonia siliqua
The nice walkway turns into a trail.
The trail gets narrower and we start thinking of ticks again.
Damaszener Schwarzkümmel
Nigella damascena
A view of a hidden sandy (?) beach.
We walked back along the coast and looked up. Our trail was somewhere behind this cliff.
In the evening we went for pizza and pasta.
