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Sea Organ
Marble steps where the sea itself plays music.
Photo: Andrej Šalov / CC BY-SA 3.0
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Church of St Mary
A Benedictine convent church under Dalmatia's oldest bell tower.
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Why it is worth your time
Beside the Roman forum stands the church of a Benedictine convent founded in 1066, its Romanesque-Gothic interior dressed in stucco. Behind it rises the oldest bell tower in Dalmatia, the Koloman tower begun in 1105, and within the convent lives the famed Gold and Silver of Zadar, a reliquary hoard the nuns hid through every war.
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The convent's Gold & Silver treasury is the real secret: quiet, dim and glinting with reliquaries.
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Paklenica National Park
The Velebit hiking gateway above Starigrad, with canyons, peaks and marked mountain trails.
Photo: Andro Galinovic / CC BY-SA 4.0
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Sveto Brdo
A high Velebit summit with huge views and a demanding approach.
Photo: Martin Vavrik / Public domain
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