Split Historical Tour: Explore Diocletian's Palace, Medieval & Modern Split with a History Professor

Embark on a captivating historical tour of Diocletian’s Palace, Medieval Split, and Modern Split with a knowledgeable history professor and local guide. Discover the rich history, Game of Thrones locations, and local legends while exploring the city’s iconic landmarks and hidden gems.

Duration: 2 hours, 15 minutes
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Riva Harbor - We are starting our tour on Riva promenade, right next to model of Palace. Riva is where local population spend their time drinking coffee, enjoying the sun and its the place where most of the public life happens.
What's Included
  • All fees and taxes included
What's Not Included
  • Alcoholic Beverages
Additional Information

History professor and seasoned local guide initiating a novel city tour. While exploring Diocletian’s palace is amazing, discovering the Palace, Medieval and modern Split ups the experience! Immerse in the roman Palace’s history and embark on an exploration of Split’s center, thick with influences from Venice, the Ottomans, and Napoleon. Included are Game of Thrones filming spots, intriguing trivia, a smattering of local lore and lifestyle. The tour commences from the Riva promenade, leading through the cellars and culminating at the prominent ancient square which offers sweeping views of the Cathedral and medieval palaces. En route to the Silver & Golden gates, we’ll traverse the world’s slimmest street. Don’t forget to touch the toe of the Gregor of Nin statue for a wish - a Split tradition! Post the Palace visit, we’ll stroll the modern main street and square, concluding at the primary medieval square. Throughout the walk, gain an array of suggestions on activities and locales in Split. Personalized tours can be arranged as per request.

Location
Brass Gate
Obala Hrvatskog narodnog preporoda
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Alexfw8361ju
Aug 2, 2024
Get the local knowledge - This tour was the highlight of our visit to Split so far. Mario was a lovely, charming guide who took time to.explain so much of the interesting history of Split and Croatia. Always attentive and always happy tomanswer our questions, we thoroughly enjoyed our tour with Mario. Definitely recommended!
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Guide794028
Jul 31, 2024
The best tour guide in Split with a great sense of humor! - Mario was amazing! It's not every time you get a tour guide that really enjoys what he does, has a great sense of humor, great cultural awareness and well-resaearched historical knowledge of the place. Mario gave us much more than a walking tour - a true appreciation of the Croatian culture - history, food, wine, people, even sports and very handy tips for navigating through the city. He was very knowledgeable in a humble way and very funny too. I'd recommend him 1000%. Thank you Mario!
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N4555ffwillw
Jul 28, 2024
Great Tour! - Really helped us appreciate Split much more than we could have by just walking into various sites. Thankyou! So much more to Split than we would have understood without this tour.
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Kellywz6543ji
Jul 25, 2024
An interesting, engaging & entertaining tour! - Mario is a terrific tour guide. He knows and shares lots of interesting and relevant information about Split in a way that you can take it in. And he has a great sense of humor. Our whole family enjoyed learning the history of some places we might otherwise walk by unaware, and especially enjoyed hearing the acapella singers in the rotunda—what a treat! Thank you for a wonderful tour, Mario.
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Glake92
Jul 25, 2024
Highly recommend !!! - Mario was full of interesting historical and local knowledge and delivered it in an easy and funny way. We learnt so much about Split and couldn’t recommend enough.
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Retha
Jul 25, 2024
Best historical tour! - Mario is exemplary historian guide. His knowledge is exceptional and insightful. His warm and welcoming demeanour makes one feel at ease from the start. I highly recommend this tour!
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Marijap867
Jul 25, 2024
Amazing tour - A charismatic guide, Mario, envisioned a tour as a story, with sightseeing points connecting. A lot of facts, anecdotes, and a lot of shade, which is inportant during hot summer day. This was by far, the best tour I was ever on.
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Global55629095521
Jul 25, 2024
An incredibly interesting tour and an invaluable start to your Split experience. - Mario is an amazing tour guide; knowledgeable, humorous and engaging. The stops on the tour were spectacularly beautiful and Mario intertwined fascinating stories and local history during each. History buffs will really enjoy this. He interacted with all of us individually, remembering our names and where we were from. He gave us recommendations during the tour and then sent us individual messages so we could refer back to them. I took this tour on my last day in Split, and now wish it’d been my first activity of the trip. I’ll be recommending him to any friends and family that decide to visit Split.
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Debbiemcel
Jul 25, 2024
Split walking tour - Mario is an excellent guide; very knowledgeable and funny. Also made great suggestions for local food and ice cream! Highly recommended
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W8816lrheinzs
Jul 24, 2024
Must have in Split - Dear Professor Mario. Thank you for this amazing guided tour we had this evening! It was a great experience to see all this antic places and to listen your stories about them.
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