{"id":282,"date":"2018-02-11T20:17:07","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T18:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/?p=282"},"modified":"2024-04-26T23:07:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T20:07:28","slug":"trg-peristil-from-split-croatia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/gr\/2018\/european-squares\/trg-peristil-from-split-croatia\/","title":{"rendered":"Trg Peristil from Split, Croatia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-282 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/gr\/2018\/european-squares\/trg-peristil-from-split-croatia\/attachment\/dji_0065\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DJI_0065-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/gr\/2018\/european-squares\/trg-peristil-from-split-croatia\/attachment\/dji_0142\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DJI_0142-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/gr\/2018\/european-squares\/trg-peristil-from-split-croatia\/attachment\/img_1367\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_1367-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/gr\/2018\/european-squares\/trg-peristil-from-split-croatia\/attachment\/img_1403\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_1403-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">From a bird\u2019s eye view, the old town of Split resembles a rectangular box into which someone has placed buildings, streets, and markets. Beginning in the Middle Ages, two of the larger markets in this citadel played a key role in the history of the city, Narodni Trg, or Spalato in Italian. The People\u2019s Square, called simply <i>Pjaca<\/i> by the locals, was first mentioned in the 13<sup>th<\/sup>century, and has a number of superb Gothic buildings. A bit further on, at the entrance to the citadel, lies Trg <\/span>Bra\u0107e Radi\u0107, called Vo\u0107ni Trg by the locals, meaning \u201cfruit market,\u201d in reference to its earlier, colourful identity. Just outside the medieval walls is a third great square, Republic Square. Its more recent architecture reminds one of Venice\u2019s San Marco. It was built in the mid-19<sup>th<\/sup> century, in a historicist<b> <\/b>style, demonstrating that Split, long under Venetian rule, still carries on this tradition. These are beautiful squares, each with its own marked individuality, but the oldest and most interesting of the Split squares by far is Trg Peristril, which is smaller, yet considered by locals to be the historical heart of this area. Its history is special. Originally, this square served as the interior courtyard of a palace built for the Roman emperor Diocletian in 305, across a huge surface measuring 300 square meters. In fact, half of the old city of Split lies within the palace walls, the most well-preserved Roman palace today. After the Romans abandoned it, it remained uninhabited for centuries, until the people of Salona used it when taking refuge from the Slavs, turning this former palace into their settlement. And a settlement it shall remain. John of Ravenna, the first local archbishop, oversaw the transformation of the Diocletian mausoleum into a church. This was the moment when the palace courtyard officially became the Cathedral square, with all of the functions of a medieval square. Changes were made to it, but some features were kept, including its red porphyry columns.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-284\" src=\"https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Split2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"716\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Split2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Split2-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Split2-768x550.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a bird\u2019s eye view, the old town of Split resembles a rectangular box into which someone has placed buildings, streets, and markets. Beginning in the Middle Ages, two of the larger markets in this citadel played a key role in the history of the city, Narodni Trg, or Spalato in Italian. The People\u2019s Square, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/gr\/2018\/european-squares\/trg-peristil-from-split-croatia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trg Peristil from Split, Croatia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[36,149,63,145,151,64,61,146,150],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european-squares","tag-13th-century","tag-az","tag-croatia","tag-en","tag-es","tag-old-roman-city","tag-republic-of-venice","tag-ro","tag-tr","post_format-post-format-image"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","language":"gr","enabled_languages":["en","tr","ro","es","it","gr","az","pl","ge","pt"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"tr":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"ro":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"es":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"it":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"gr":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"az":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"pl":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"ge":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"pt":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/gr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/gr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/gr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/gr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/gr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/gr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/gr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/gr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/gr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/gr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}