Day 9  Split

Today we were taken on a tour of Split with a local guide, who was excellent and knew all her history of which there was plenty.  The city dates back 1800 years to the times when the Romanemperor Diocietian built a monumental imperial residence for his retirement.  Today it is still standing and is a warren of narrow cobblestone streets of churches, chapels and museums.  We visited Diocietions Palace which was built in 295AD and is the heart of the city.  A living monument, framed by four gates.    We visited the oldest and smallest catholic church in the world which was beautiful, they all get to be the same after awhile but this was beautiful and worth looking at.

We also went to the town on Trogir, a quiant seaside town, we were all about churched out so in our free time we sat for a coffee and beers and watched the world go by.
A truly beautiful part of the world.   We ended the day with a trip up the mountain to a restaurant high on the hills where we had spit roasted lamb, the same place Rick Stein went to on his TV series, From Venice to Istanbul.  Quite wonderful;