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30th December 2009, the first in my upcoming series of Hueco Skin Diary. This was a 'crimper training' split to the RH Index.
Split is Croatia's second largest city while Zagreb is the capital! A journey from Split to Zagreb by bus is one of the most wonderful journeys one can ever have in Croatia. Lush landscape, pastel-colored buildings, and medieval atmosphere - there is so much one can enjoy during Split to Zagreb bus travel!
The history of Split is over-flowingly rich and turbulent to fit in just a couple of sentences. Although the Split area was earlier inhabited by the Greek colonies, Emperor Diocletian should be considered its first citizen and founder, starting his lavish villa of around 300 square meters near the great city of Salona in 293 AD, only to retire from the Roman throne within its walls after building it for ten years.
Turbulent centuries that followed turned the villa into a city, conceived by the fugitive inhabitants of Salona who fled from the Avars and Slavs. Many authorities changed hands in the city which, in the years to come, grew beyond the Palace walls, from the Croatian Kings in the 10th century, through the Hungarian and Venetian administration, to the French rulers and the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Modern age and the 20th century "moved" Split from the kingdom of Yugoslavia, through tragic, yet heroic times of the Italian and German occupation during the Second World War when Split was one of the centres of anti-fascist resistance, to the Socialist Yugoslavia and the present period of the free and independent Croatia, member of the European Union.
Tumultuous history leaves its trace in the everyday life of the city that always moved steadily forward, remaining the centre of this part of the coast to this day. In those mixtures of history layers, clumsiness was inevitable, sometimes even rashness in development, but today it is all a part of its originality. Great city beats today with the silent whisper of history, the lively spirit of youth and charm of the Mediterranean yet in every way also Croatian warmth...
dragon mouth in china town window with relection of building on glass. split image, flipped the bottom half, pixelated and darkened the perimiter, added slight blur.
After seeing pictures of the old lego split-level train car set thing, I decided to build my own . However, I did not have the lego split-level train base, so it was very difficult to make it able to resist the strain of derailing (I always try to make my trains and cars able to live a derailing off of a bridge, just in case it actually happens.) Soon after, I decided to build one on LDD to add the colours and details. In the end the original model looked nothing like the LDD model. Sadly, I have no pictures because the first model was taken apart for parts long ago. In fact, that is true for most of mky models, because I am finally getting around to putting my lego models on flickr, and the models themselves were made long ago.
Wandering around Split waiting for our apartment to be ready for us.
These kitties are reclining on an awning in the market, at the entrance into the Diocletian palace.
Diocletian's Palace, Split (Italian: Spalato, Latin: Spalatum), Croatia
The palace was built for Diocletian in the early 4th century. The emperor spent the rest of his life here after his abdication. The complex combines the qualities of a luxury residence with a military camp.
The palace was integrated into the urban texture of the medieval Split. It was "discovered" in the 18th century. Robert Adam, the neoclassical architect studied the palace intensively.
The site is included in the World Cultural Heritage list of UNESCO.
Full text version of Robert Adam's book Ruins of the palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia:
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