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Church of Our Lady of the Bell Tower
Tiny pre-Romanesque chapel and bell tower built directly into a Roman defensive gate passage.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Church of Our Lady of the Bell Tower in Split follows the odd engineering bet hidden in the Iron Gate of Diocletian's former palace: a Roman guardhouse turned into a tiny chapel, then asked centuries later to carry one of the oldest bell towers on the Adriatic. You will hear about the walls built for war, the eleventh century builders who trusted them anyway, and the staircase local women once climbed on a vow. Best heard standing beneath the Iron Gate, looking straight up at the tower overhead.
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