Forest Park Marjan

About this audio guide

This guide to Forest Park Marjan in Split centers on Vidilica, the hilltop cafe on Marjan's eastern slope, and the building's original purpose as a tahara, where Split's Jewish community once washed and dressed bodies for burial. You'll hear about the Old Jewish Cemetery below it, founded in fifteen seventy-three by the merchant Daniel Rodrigo, the more than seven hundred graves carved in Sephardic Hebrew script, and the newspaper publisher Vid Morpurgo buried among them. Order a coffee on the terrace and look down at the stones below.