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Unlike much of
Croatia, Sibenik was not founded until the 7th century by Croats. The town was inevitably tossed around between the country’s many successive invaders: Ottomans, Venetians, Hungarians, French and Austrians. Despite all this, and the heavy bombing during the Second World War, the old part of Sibenik has survived. The city boasts typically urban Croatian architecture – houses of pale stone and red-tiled roofs.
As has the pleasure of wandering along the lanes and alleys which fan out from each other, of stumbling across the time-worn façade of an elegant mansion or the secret garden of a priory, of idling away time in a small café alongside a chapel. In the glimmer of the street lamps, delicate medieval stone carvings are vividly brought to life – a noble coat of arms above a doorway, a drinking trough for dogs beside a channel, a weaver’s measure still marking the wall on a street corner.
In Sibenik, during the transition between the Gothic and the Renaissance periods, notably in the 15th century, art was very much in the service of the church. The most striking example of the outstanding profession of faith at that period is the St James’ Cathedral, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is largely the work of two Croat sculptor-architects – Juraj Dalmatinac (George the Dalmate) and his disciple Nikola Firentinac (Nikolas the Florentine). Dalmatic was largely responsible for bringing the Renaissance to the Adriatic. The technique used for constructing the dome, without any mortar between th estones, remains a miracle of balance even today.
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