Welcome to Zadar,
a city whose rich spiritual and material culture is best testified to by its preserved walls and numerous sacral monuments, crowned by the symbol of the city, the 9th century Church of St. Donatus, the most monumental Croatian building of the early Middle Ages. Enjoying the protection of as many as four patron saints – Zoilus, Simon, Chrysogonus and Anastasia - this city takes pride not only in its abundant archeological and monumental treasures, jealously guarded over the centuries, but also in the fact that the foundations of the oldest university in Croatia were laid here in 1396. Full of rich and unique archives, libraries and outstanding treasuries, Zadar is also the city where the first Croatian novel was written and where the first newspapers in the Croatian language were printed. Therefore take a walk through the unique streets of its history and feel the spirit of the Mediterranean as it once was.