Cathedral of Saint Domnius

The Cathedral of Saint Domnius acknowledged domestically as the Sveti Dujam or colloquially Sveti Duje, is the Catholic cathedral in Split, Croatia. The cathedral is the seat of the Archdiocese of Split-Makarska, headed via Archbishop Marin Barisic. The Cathedral of St. Domnius is a complicated of a church, shaped from an Imperial Roman mausoleum, with a bell tower; strictly the church is devoted to the Virgin Mary, and the bell tower to Saint Domnius. Together they shape the Cathedral of St. Domnius. Diocletian's Palace is a building within the centre of Split, built for the Emperor Diocletian on the turn of the 4th century.

On the intersection of two main roads, cardo and decumanus, there's a enormous court docket Peristyle, from which the most effective get right of entry to to Cathedral of St. Domnius is to the east. The cathedral became named after Saint Domnius consumer saint of Split, who become a third-century Bishop of Salona. Salona became a massive Roman city serving as capital of the Province of Dalmatia.