Today I spent the day in Sibenik old town. The weather was good enough to hang out some
washing, so after hunting down the hostel worker in the café next door to sort
out the washing machine and taking a leisurely shower in the first shower with
an overhead faucet I have seen in days, I walked the short 200 odd meters to
the waterfront.
All the information on opening times that the Tourist Office
gave me was utterly wrong and so I wasn’t able to see the mediaeval garden or
the Bunari museum, but it was still a beautiful town to walk around and I found
plenty to spend a day looking at. The
narrow alleyways of pale stone climbing up the hillside put me in mind of Minas
Tirith. I did get to see the City Museum
which gave a brief overview of the history of the town. Most of what we see today in the old town was
built by the 15th century, with some additions in the 16th
and 17th, though there have been people in this area since the stone
age. The museum was an improvement on
the ones I had seen in Italy in that it had all the exhibits in Croatian and
English, and good English at that.
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| Franciscan Church and Monastery. |
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| Narrow arched streets. |
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| Unknown church. |
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| Buildings on the hill. |
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| Cathedral of St Jakob. Started in the 13th century... |
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| ...and finished in the 14th. |
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