Discover the 3000 years of Zadar's history

Zadar is a place whose rich spiritual and material culture is best testified to by its walls and numerous sacral monuments, crowned by the symbol of the city: 9th - century church of St. Donatus. St. Donatus is the most monumental Croatian building of early Middle Ages. Replete with rich archives, libraries and outstanding treasuires of sacral music, Zadar is also a city in which the first Croatian novel came to be, and where the first newspapers in the Croatian language were printed. Zadar is also a city with the larges researched Roman forum on Croatian side of the Adriatic. The region of Zadar tells the story of the sources of Croatian cultural heritage better than any book.