Church of St. Jerome

About this audio guide

This guide to the Church of Saint Jerome on Marjan hill in Split starts with a single carved inscription on its Renaissance altar, made by the sculptor Andrija Ales in fourteen eighty for a priest named Ivan. It follows what that inscription reveals about paying your way into sacred stone, tracing the story forward to a seventeenth-century church official who wanted a resting place inside these same walls. Best heard standing at the altar, before you look up toward the hermit caves in the cliff behind it.