If you're near Salona don't miss this educational and relaxing field trip.

I have to qualify my comments about Salona. My girlfriend, her mother and I were on a Royal Caribbean cruise, and we booked a guided tour that included Salona. However, our guide was really inexperienced, and English was not even her second best language AND we hardly spent any time at Salona - maybe an hour in total. So we... More

Took a cab from Split centre, about 100HRK, and well worth it. Set in a large area, really impressive ruins, and pretty good signage to explain the site, which has an interesting mix through Roman and early Christian period. The amphitheatre was excellent, still quite easy to see the way it functioned. The sarcophagi are also cool, dotted across the... More

I expressed and interest in seeing the ruins of the Roman settlement of Solona so our guide stopped here. Little remains of the city which once had approximately 50,000 inhabitants. The main area remaining is the ampitheater. There is little information site regarding the area and unfortunately it is surrounded on one side by a refinery. However, the ampitheater is... More

Salona (aka Salonae) was once the capital of the Roman empire in Dalmatia. After the fall of the empire people of Salona fled to nearby Split and the area around Diocletian's palace. What was left of Salona was left to decay (or be destroyed by Slavs, Avars and Venetians). Solin is now a suburb of Split and the former city... More

Salone is the site of ancient Greek ruins a few miles out of Split. The rins consist of a settlement, some housing units and an a pretty impressive small ampetheater. Admission with a map is about 40kn and the visit will take about 3 hours total to walk around all of the sites. You'll need a car or be part... More