Iron Gate
Roman military gate, in continuous use for seventeen centuries, topped by a pre-Romanesque bell tower and a twenty-four-hour clock.
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This guide to the Iron Gate, the western entrance to Diocletian's retirement palace in Split, follows one Roman gate through seventeen centuries of changing jobs, from a carving of the goddess Nike chiseled into a cross in the fifth century to a guardroom turned tiny church a century later. You'll hear about the bell tower added in the eleventh century, said to be the oldest surviving on the Adriatic coast, and the twenty-four-hour clock still mounted on the stone above the arch. Look up as you pass through the same gap that soldiers, saints, judges and shopkeepers have squeezed through for centuries.
This audio guide was created using AI.