SPLIT - Croatia's jewel on the Mediterranean

[Ballota]

Originally Posted by MHN

great!
thanks for the pics link.

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Other sporting venues include this (soon to be reconstructed and incresed to 15,000 cap) Brodarica stadium:




A 5,000 seat stadium in Dugopolje:


6,000 seat Gripe hall, built in 1979:


And this olympic pools in Poljud:


There are numerous smaller halls and sport terrains, but I won't cover them all here...

[Ballota]

The port of Split:


When looking at the passenger traffic figures (4 million last year), it's 3rd on the Mediterranean.

Croatia Boat Show is our anual nautic fair.
Ito covers some 160,000 m2 and it's the 5th largest in the world!

[Ballota]

Split is a major cruise ship destination.
This season we'll have some 250 visits. The largest ship to come is the Celebrity Eclipse, mesuring 315m and with 17 decks (5th largest in the world).

Some images:






This pic I took a few days ago:


Also taken at the same time, by a felow forumer:


From left to right: Regatta (181m), Splendour of the Seas (264m) i Norwegain Gem (294m).

[Ballota]

On the north of the peninsula we also have a navy base:


And a cargo port:


Also, there are numerous marinas for private yachts and sailing boats, such as ACI:


Zenta:


And Spinut:

[Struckar]

Yet another thread I'll be visiting. This thread couldn't be bad, because it's about a great looking city. Good job Ballota!
Well I'll also be visiting the city of course. =)

[Ballota]

I'm realy glad to read this.

Be sure that I have many many more great pics to post on this thread.

Stay tuned...

[MHN]

Originally Posted by Ballota

The port of Split:

When looking at the passenger traffic figures (3,5 million last year), it's 3rd on the Mediterranean.

Croatia Boat Show is our anual nautic fair.
Ito covers some 140,000 m2 and it's the 6th largest in the world!

astonishing pictures!

just a curiosity: as you've said Split it's on the 3rd place on the Mediterranean area regarding the passengers traffic figures, do you have other statistics, like for example Split vs. Europe?

[Ballota]

Originally Posted by MHN

astonishing pictures!

just a curiosity: as you've said Split it's on the 3rd place on the Mediterranean area regarding the passengers traffic figures, do you have other statistics, like for example Split vs. Europe?

There was a newspaper article about that about a year ago.
I can't remember the exact figures. All I know is that the Port of Split is only behind Naples and Piraeus (Athens).
It's beacuse there are alot of islands around Split. There are numerous local ferry lines to conect all these places. That's why we have about 3,5 million passengers every year.

[lukaszek89]

I want to visit it!

[Ballota]

The University of Split was founded in 1974 and is organized in 13 faculties and 124 faculty programmes. As of 2009, a total of approximately 40,000 students have graduated, and a total of 337 doctoral degrees have been awarded.

In the last few years, the University of Split student body has grown; it now enrolls 26,000 students and is organized in 13 faculties. Currently a new campus is being built, which will be finished in 2012. It will house all of the faculties, a large student center with a sports hall, sporting grounds and a university library. The newest addition to the faculty programmes is the Faculty of Pharmacy. There are also recent additions to the graduate programmes: the school of forensics and the school of geodesy.

These are the 13+3 faculties into which the university is divided:

* Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture
* Faculty of Mathematics and Sciences
* Faculty of Economy
* Faculty of Law
* Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture (FESB)
* Catholic Faculty of Theology
* Faculty of Chemical Engineering
* Faculty of Medicine
* Faculty of Pharmacy
* Faculty of Kinesiology
* Faculty of Maritime Studies
* Faculty of Philosophy
* Academy of Fine Arts

Campus layout:


An older aerial picture:


University library:


Faculty of Economy:


Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture (my faculty ):


Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture:

[Ballota]

Faculty of Mathematics, Chemical Engineering and Maritime Studies (under construction):


Student Center building (600 beds, a restaurant, sport hall, tennis courts and a medical center) - under construction:


Future Faculty of Philosophy:


Future Faculty of Law:


Future Arts Academy:

[Ballota]

Originally Posted by lukaszek89

I want to visit it!

Do come.

[Ballota]

Some pics of the wider (non-antic or middle age) city center:

[Ballota]

Bank od Split building:


Bajamonti palace:


Prokurative:


Buildings on Riva:

[Ballota]

Marmontova street (main shopping street):










Post office:

[Ballota]

Priuli city wall (one of the three remaining Venetian fortifications built in 1666. to defend from the Turks):


Cornaro wall:

[Ballota]

Northern palace walls and old ruins in the park:


Cornaro wall from behind:

[Ballota]

One of the oldest city parks "Đardin":




Contarini wall:

[Ballota]

Originally Posted by MHN

astonishing pictures!

just a curiosity: as you've said Split it's on the 3rd place on the Mediterranean area regarding the passengers traffic figures, do you have other statistics, like for example Split vs. Europe?

Ok. As I couldn't find any statistics for all of Mediterranean, I had to investigate this port-by-port.
Here are the passenger traffic figures (in the brackets are the cruise ship passengers):

Piraeus - 21,500,000 (410,000)
Naples - 9,000,000 (2,300,000)
Split - 4,000,000 (130,000)
Genova - 3,200,000 (670,000)
Barcelona - 3,200,000 (2,100,000)
Zadar - 2,000,000 (30,000)
Marseille - 2,000,000 (500,000)
Venice - 1,900,000 (1,400,000)
Bari - 1,900,000 (560,000)
Ancona - 1,500,000 (50,000)
Dubrovnik - 1,200,000 (580,000)
Patras - 1,000,000
Valencia - 430,000 (200,000)
Trieste - 150,000 (80,000)

P.S. Here are Split's statistics in detail: http://www.portsplit.com/index.php?o...d=95&Itemid=50

[MHN]

Originally Posted by Ballota

Ok. As I couldn't find any statistics for all of Mediterranean, I had to investigate this port-by-port.
Here are the passenger traffic figures (in the brackets are the cruise ship passengers):

Piraeus - 21,500,000 (410,000)
Naples - 9,000,000 (2,300,000)
Split - 4,000,000 (130,000)
Genova - 3,200,000 (670,000)
Barcelona - 3,200,000 (2,100,000)
Zadar - 2,000,000 (30,000)
Marseille - 2,000,000 (500,000)
Venice - 1,900,000 (1,400,000)
Bari - 1,900,000 (560,000)
Ancona - 1,500,000 (50,000)
Dubrovnik - 1,200,000 (580,000)
Patras - 1,000,000
Valencia - 430,000 (200,000)
Trieste - 150,000 (80,000)

P.S. Here are Split's statistics in detail: http://www.portsplit.com/index.php?o...d=95&Itemid=50

thanks for the effort.