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SPLIT - Croatia's jewel on the Mediterranean

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#1 · (Edited)
The city of SPLIT



This is my beloved hometown and now I'm presenting it to all of you.
Hope you'll enjoy this slideshow... :)

Location:




Web: http://www.split.hr/Default.aspx

1700 year old city of Split is the second largest urban area in Croatia. It has about 220,000 residents in the city and some 350,000 in metro area, which consists from the smaller cities of Solin, Kaštela, Trogir, Klis, Stobreč, Omiš and so on. They all create a 50km long urban coastal zone that is the nerve center of the southern Croatian region of Dalmatia (pop. 1,000,000).

The core of the city is an ancient Roman palace, built in 305. AD by the emperor Diocletian.
Just about 5km north of the palace was the 2200 year old city of Salona (pop. 60,000), which was the capital of the Roman province Dalmatia. When it was destroyed by the barbarian attacks, the people went to the abandoned palace and created the city of Split.

Later, the city grew on it's own pace, changing it's "owners".
From the Croatian kingdom in the 7th century, Venitians in the 17th century, Austrians till WW1, Italians in WW2, to Yugoslavia in the 20th century and Croatia from 1991.

In the 20th century the population count exploded. In just under 50 years, the city grew from about 30,000 to 200,000. It gained tall skyscrapers and wide avenues. It was industrialised, and developed into a real mini-metropolis of the Mediterranean. :)

Let's start with this colage teaser:


Expect many more pictures in the near future. :cheers2:
 
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#71 ·
Marjan is a 178m tall hill on the western tip of the peninsula.
It's covered in pine tree forrest and it's our main recreation zone. A real green oasis, to get away from all the city noise. :)



Marjan offers some of the best views of the city:






The top:


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#76 ·
Right next to Sustipan park, to the west, is Zvončac:


One of the oldest parks is Đardin. It's located right next to the northern palace walls and it was redesigned in 2002. by Boris Podrecca:






Emanuel Vidović park is about a kilometer to the north:




There are more parks in the city, but these are the most notable ones... :cheers2:
 
#81 ·
Let's take look at Split's road network. :)

Here is the map:


Orange is the A1 motorway, and yellow are the main expressways.

City map:


In the city, we have two main six lane avenues, that cross the city in the west-east direction.

Ulica Domovinskog rata (on the north side):




Poljička avenue (on the south side):






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#83 · (Edited)
We also have a fully grade-separated bypass road. It starts on the north side, connecting on a expressway from Trogir, near Solin (with 3+3 lanes), continues by the city, with 2+2+2+2 lanes, with the elevated mid-section, and ends near the Lovrinac cemetery, continuing towards Stobreč, as a 2+2 expressway.

Some images:








Large roundabout at Bilice is a main junction between the bypass road and the two expressways.. one leading towards the A1 motorway, and the other, as the D8 expressway, towards Trogir:


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#84 ·
Continuting to the west, we are crossing the Jadro river in Solin:


And driving through Kaštela, towards the 20km distant Trogir:




Trogir bypass:


On the other end, drving east from Split, we are going towards Stobreč:




:cheers:
 
#85 ·
If we choose to go north, towards Dugopolje industrial zone and the A1 motorway, we take this attractive road (that is just being widened to 2+3 lanes), that has many tunnels and viaducts, providing excellent views of the city:








Dugopolje:


Interchange between Dugopolje zone, A1 toll station, and the continuation od the D1 road:
 
#86 · (Edited)
Some places out of the city center.
Split is the most dense populated city in Croatia with average 3,500 people/m^2 (like Berlin) although some areas reach more than 15,000 ppl/m^2.
Average density is this small because city borders include uninhabited areas.

















these remind me on Montreals' buildings built for Olympics










 
#89 ·
Split has one suburban rail line. It runs from Split, through Solin, to Kaštel Stari.
There are plans to build a branch that would cover the airport and run all the way to Trogir, on the west side of the bay.

The city part of the line runs through two tunnels. The longer one was built in 1979. and has one underground station, that was never completely finished.
There are plans to open it in the near future, as well as building a second carriageway and a new electrical power system.

Map of the city railroad:


Red are the tunnels, and green is the station.

Digging the tunnel, and building the station:




The works are nearing completion:


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#91 ·
The rail terminal in Split is not up to standards, unfortunately. It's very old, rather small, and from the time when the city wasn't so important and big.

This is the part with the ticket counters:


There are two plans to make a new rail/bus station.
One considers them to move to Kopilica station on the north:


Oposing that idea, there is a plan to make a new rail/bus terminal on the same location as today:


That would include some new buildings, a refurbished platform and a new road system that could feed all that traffic to and back from the rest of the city. That is the main problem, beacuse the same roads are also used by the ferry port, that hanedls 4 million passengers every year and is pretty congested. :cheers:
 
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