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The Atlas Obscura Guide To Split

5 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Split, Croatia

Updated June 20, 2024

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Taxidermied frogs spend a day on the lake at Froggyland

Split, Croatia

Froggyland

A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.
Quite a bit of architectural heritage can still be found inside the Spar.

Split, Croatia

UNESCO-Protected SPAR Supermarket

When a supermarket opened up shop within a medieval building it became protected by UNESCO on a technicality.
Grgur Ninski

Split, Croatia

Gregory of Nin’s Big Toe

The big toe of this towering monument to a Croatian national hero is worn from years of superstitious rubbing.
Diokletian Aqueduct

Split, Croatia

Dioklecijanov Akvadukt (Diocletian Aqueduct)

This ancient Roman aqueduct once funneled water to Diocletian's palace.

Split, Croatia

Crkva Sv. Martina (St. Martin's Church)

Split's smallest church, and one of its oldest, has been reconstructed inside the city's Roman walls.
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Crkva Sv. Vida (Church of St. Vitus)

One of the very few mosques built by the Ottomans still standing in Croatia is now a Catholic church.
5 miles from Split

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Crkva Sv. Sebastijana (Church of St. Sebastian)

The interior of this church has been turned into a memorial to locals who died in Croatia's Homeland War.
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Quite a bit of architectural heritage can still be found inside the Spar.

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UNESCO-Protected SPAR Supermarket

When a supermarket opened up shop within a medieval building it became protected by UNESCO on a technicality.
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