The church and monastery of St. Frane, Split

Split Monastery of St. Frane na Obala belongs to a number of monasteries which the older tradition holds were founded in 1212 by the founder of the Order of Friars Minor, St. Francis of Assisi, during his stay in Dalmatia, and these are, in addition to Split, other monasteries in Zadar, Pasman, Trogir, Dubrovnik, and some other places.

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Other nearby buildings

Split Synagogue

The Synagogue in Split was created in the 16th-century bu converting the second floor of two attached medieval houses. The current interior was created around 1728. The Aron Hakodesh, one of the most sacred parts of the place of worship facing Jerusalem and made out black and white marble in the Classicist style, is built into the western wall of the Diocletian’s Palace. It is one of the oldest continuously used Sephardic synagogues in the world.

Cathedral of Saint Domnius

Split Cathedral was built in the early 4th century as part of the complex of the Roman palace of Diocletian in Split. The building, which was originally an imperial mausoleum, was not dedicated to the church until the 7th century. In the 11th century, a bell tower was added and in the 17th century, the cathedral was enlarged by the construction of an apse in the choir. Consecrated as a cathedral at the turn of the 7th century AD, it is considered to be the oldest Catholic cathedral in the world that remains in use in its original structure. As part of the Diocletian's Palace, it is a World Heritage Site.

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Church of Our Lady of Health

The church of Our Lady of Health was built in 1937 and is on the site of an older church dating from the 18th century. The 18th century Baroque Church of Our Lady of Health was demolished in the early 1930s, and the new modernist style church was built in its place in 1937, according to the design of the Zagreb architect Lavoslav Horvat. The old baroque bell tower of the church has been preserved.