It looks like some Byzantine dome-like structure was attached to the palace walls about 1300 years ago and did not last as long as the palace walls. Shoddy workmanship.
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Surely Diocletian would not have entered through such a lowly gate….. this would be for small people.
One of the exterior walls of the palace also showing how development has encroached from every direction.
As they filled in Diocletian’s palace with new structures since the 7th century (it sat dormant for a few hundred years after the predictable conclusion of Diocletian’s retirement), space was so sought after that the resulting “public” streets got pretty tight.
A tiny bit of Diocletian’s retirement palace. Note the arches built into the corners…. it would be a feat even today to build a palace with these features.
Another part of the palace taken over the centuries for residences. This is one of the palace interiors.
Something ironic and poetic about the juxtaposition of the Roman palace, the Catholic church Treasury, the money lenders, and the merchants all gathered together today and in the ruins of the predecessors.
More intermingling of residential, commercial, religious, architecture over the centuries in, on, around the palace.
The “new” (circa 1500) Cathedral in Split built over the Roman Emperor’s palace of 300AD–and viewed through one of the remaining palace walls.
Coming into the harbor in Split, Croatia.
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