The Forum, Dalmatia, Croatia
4.0 (522 reviews) Spent < 1 hour Ranking #11 in Zadar County Points of Interest & Landmarks
A 'walk by' attraction. But add a little history & these remnants of an earthquake begin to live again.
The seemingly random relics of buildings allow you to touch the history lying at your feet. Zadar is a planned city Quadrata layout undertaken by the Romans, & this, I'm told, is obvious to the educated eye, & thankfully is still preserved some 2 millenia later . Following the earthquake in 6th Century much of the area was reduced to rubble & the medieval square & a Renaissance cistern were built. I tried to include more info from a great website but you can sniff out more history ... ... I'm not going to do all the heavy lifting for you!
Address
Zeleni trg Crkva Sv. Donata - Trg Rimskog Foruma, Zadar 23000 Croatia
Website
http://www.zadar.travel/it/guida-della-citta/attrazioni/23-05-2007/il-foro#.Vx3o1zGE37o
Current local date and time now
Friday, May 10, 2024, 14:00
User Ratings
4.0 based on (522 reviews)
Reviews
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4BharathiMani 5:00 PM Apr 20, 2022
Interesting
The town of Zadar is very quant and it's wonderful to spend a few hours walking around the town and taking in the sights. What I really liked about the forum is that it's not cordoned off and is a part of the town. So you can walk very close and imagine a different era. Unfortunately most of the forum was destroyed by an earth quake however a couple of columns still stand. There is one to which miscreants were tied to as a punishment.
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4Piero C 5:00 PM Apr 19, 2022
Evocative
There's much left to the imagination here for travelers with some sense of the history. Here's where an excellent guide would help fill in the details when you are faced with two lines of stumps of old Roman columns. Equally intriguing is the roman column which still stands that was once used to tie miscreants to for unspecified forms of discipline.
