Wednesday, 9 September 2015

Trogir discovered

Just learnt that my family have reached a very old town of Trogir in Chroatia on their cross-Europe trip! Finding a hotel was a bit of a problem in the narrow medieval streets, but they finally got there!

 'The ancient town of Tragurion ("island of goats") was founded as a trading settlement by Greek colonists from the island of Vis (Zssa) in the 3rd century BC on an islet at the western end of the bay of Manios, in a strait between the mainland and one of the Adriatic islands, where there was already a small settlement. The Hellenistic town was enclosed by megalithic walls and its streets were laid out on a "Hippodamian" grid plan: the line of the ancient cardo maximus is that of the modem main street.'(from UNESCO site)

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