Split (Spalato called in Italian) is the largest and most important city in Dalmatia, and the second city in Croatia. The city was Venice, Venice dominated by the fourteenth century till 1797, and the historic old town and Diocletian's Palace are inscribed
on the UNESCO world cultural heritage list.
As the foundation of Dubrovnik, Split and the foundation has a nice story, in which Latinos are residents of the great metropolis mix Adriatic Salona (today Solin, two steps away from Split), and greedy invaders, accompanied by the Slavs. Salona invaded in
the early seventh century, Avar-Slav hordes laughed it off the face of the earth, so that the survivors took refuge in the former Palace of Diocletian, building houses, shops and churches from the Roman ruins of the palace and making Palace of the nucleus
of the new city of Split.
