The site

Diocletian's Palace is a colossal Roman palace-fortress raised on a Croatian peninsula at the end of the third century AD as the retirement residence of Emperor Diocletian. Half the walled complex was his private quarters, the rest a military garrison guarding it. Astonishingly, the fortress never emptied out: today its stone streets form roughly half of Split's old town, threaded with 3,000 residents, shops, and cafes, and listed by UNESCO in 1979.

Field notes

civilizations

Roman

types

Palace

built

293 CE

occupied

293 CE — 700 CE

country

Croatia