Church
Church of St. Nicholas
Hillside chapel built in 1219, home to a line of resident hermits who watched the sea for sailors.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Church of St. Nicholas in Split traces the chapel back to 1219, when a local couple, Rako and Elizabeta, endowed it and handed it to Benedictine monks, before a lay brotherhood took over its care in the 1300s. From the 1500s, a single hermit moved into a dwelling built against these walls, and one man after another kept living there for generations, watching the harbor below for ships. You'll hear what the post demanded of him when Ottoman raiders struck this coast in the 1600s. Stand on the slope and look toward the water the way every one of them did.
This audio guide was created using AI.