Tourist attraction
Kaštel Gomilica
Sea-moated nuns' fortress reached by a stone bridge, built to shelter refugee farmers from raiders.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Kaštel Gomilica, near Split, follows Abbess Jakobina Grisogono, who in the early fifteen hundreds commissioned a fortress on a reef to shelter refugee tenant farmers from Ottoman raids. You'll hear how the Benedictine sisters, their steward, and masons from Trogir built it stone by stone. Best heard standing on the bridge into the fortress gate.
This audio guide was created using AI.