The stone arches
The clearest surviving stretch, over the valley.
W.D. Schram — CC BY-SA 3.0 · Carole Raddato from FRANKFURT, Germany — CC BY-SA 2.0 · Draceane — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Draceane — CC BY-SA 4.0
Not as a separate destination — it is a row of arches you take in within twenty minutes. But it lies directly on the road between Split and Salona, and seeing it within a Salona trip costs one short stop and adds meaning: you see where the water came from for the palace you walked through yesterday in the city centre. Make it a stop, not a trip.
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The aqueduct Diocletian built to supply his palace with water runs about nine kilometres from the source of the river Jadro near Solin to the palace in Split, and its clearest surviving stretch is a line of stone arches carrying it over the valley near Solin. Roman engineering is here in its simplest and most effective form: a very precisely calculated fall along the whole route so that water runs by gravity alone without a pump, and the arches are not ornament but the solution for crossing dips while holding that gradient. The aqueduct stopped working after Salona fell in the seventh century and lay neglected for some twelve hundred years, then was restored and put back into service in the nineteenth century under Austrian rule — and part of Split's water system still uses its route today. The site is free and open, and combines naturally with a visit to Salona.
The clearest surviving stretch, over the valley.
Engineering that moves water with no energy.
Near Solin, 21210