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Diocletian's Palace
A 4th-century Roman palace at the heart of Split.
Photo: Ernest Hébrard (recoloured by DIREKTOR) / Public domain
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Diocletian's Palace Substructures
The vast cellars that mirror the emperor's lost halls.
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Photo: Alecconnell / CC BY-SA 3.0
Why it is worth your time
Beneath the palace, a forest of Roman vaults survives exactly where the emperor's seaside apartments once stood above: sealed for centuries by rubbish, they preserved the floor plan of rooms long demolished overhead. Cool, cavernous and atmospheric, the halls hosted Daenerys's dragons in Game of Thrones and now shelter a row of stalls leading up to the Peristyle.
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Walk up through the cellars from the Riva to emerge dramatically onto the Peristyle: the best way in.
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