ZADAR CROATIA STOCK PHOTOS, STOCK PICTURES & PHOTO ART PRINTS

Stock photos & stock pictures gallery of Zadar Croatia landmarks & travel sights. Zadar is a city in Croatia on the Adriatic Sea. It is built on a spit of land and so has sea on 3 sides, one side of which is a harbour.

The Lion of St Mark over the arch that spans one of Zadars main entrances shows that Zadar was a Venetian city. Ladislas of Naples sold Zadar and his dynasty’s rights to Dalmatia to Venice for 100,000 dukats on July 31, 1409. Venice therefore obtained control over Zadar without a fight, but was confronted by the resistance and tensions of important Zadar families. These attempts were met with persecution and confiscation. Zadar remained the administrative seat of Dalmatia, but this time under the rule of Venice, which expanded over the whole Dalmatia, barring the Republic of Dubrovnik. The Venetians restrained the political and economical autonomy of Zadar,[citation needed] which, regardless, remained a prosperous city. During that time Juraj Dalmatinac, one of the best known renaissance men, famous for his work on the Cathedral of Šibenik, was born in Zadar. Other important people followed, such as the Lucijan and Franjo Vranjanin, best known in Italy for their sculptures and buildings.

After the fall of Venice (1797) with the Treaty of Campo Formio, Zadar come under the Austrian crown and once again became united with the rest of Croatia. In 1806 it was briefly given to the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy, until in 1809 it was added to the French Illyrian Provinces. In 1813, all of Dalmatia was reconquered and brought back under the control of the Austrian Empire. During this time, it maintained its position as the capital of Dalmatia.

The architecture in our stock photos show these influence on the buildings of Zadar. The main square in the city is the old Roman forum. It is the largest on the eastern side of the Adriatic, founded by the first Roman Emperor Augustus, as shown by two stone inscriptions about its completion dating from the 3rd century. Walls, pillars & stone burial coffins still sit in this open space. In one corner of the square is the Byzantine church of St Donats.

St Donatus’ Church – a monumental round building from the 9th century in pre-Romanesque style, traditionally but erroneously said to have been erected on the site of a temple of Juno. It is the most important preserved structure of its period in Dalmatia; the massive dome of the rotunda is surrounded by a vaulted gallery in two stories which also extends around the three apses to the east. The church treasury contains some of the finest Dalmatian metalwork; notably the silver ark or reliquary of St Simeon (1380), and the pastoral staff of Bishop Valaresso (1460). In our photos & pictures of St Donats you can see close ups of the foundations that are made up of old Roman pillars.

Behind St Donats is the Venetian Campinale style tower of St. Anastasia’s Cathedral. St. Anastasia’s Cathedral (Croatian: Sv. Stošija), basilica in Romanesque style built in the 12th to 13th century the largest cathedral in Dalmatia.

St. Mary’s Church, which retains a fine Romanesque campanile from 1105, belongs to a Benedictine Convent founded in 1066 by a noblewoman of Zadar by the name of Cika

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