The amphitheatre
It seated around seventeen thousand.
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By city bus number one or the regular Solin buses from Split's station, about twenty minutes, getting off near the Tusculum site. By car it is ten minutes with parking available. The best arrangement is Salona in the morning while it is cooler and back to Split, or combined with Klis Fortress, which sits on the same road on the ridge behind it.
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Before Split existed there was Salona: the capital of the Roman province of Dalmatia and a city whose population at its height is estimated at sixty thousand, only five kilometres north of present-day Split in the town of Solin. The reason it disappeared is the reason Split exists. When the Avars and Slavs swept through the region at the start of the seventh century, Salona's inhabitants fled and took shelter inside the walls of the abandoned Diocletian's Palace nearby — and there they stayed and built a new city inside an emperor's palace. Split is literally the city of Salona's refugees. What remains today is a wide open archaeological site: a Roman amphitheatre seating around seventeen thousand, walls, baths, early Christian churches and cemeteries. The site is unrestored and uncrowded, and you walk freely among stone and grass, usually starting from the Tusculum house where the entrance and display are. There is almost no shade — avoid the middle of the day in summer.
It seated around seventeen thousand.
Among the oldest Christian sites on the Adriatic.
Tusculum, Don Frane Bulica 6, 21210 Solin