Klis Fortress

About this audio guide

This guide to Klis Fortress, above Split, follows a ritual duel fought on the field below its walls in the late fifteen twenties, when a Turkish warrior taunted the defenders every morning and Petar Kružić's teenage page stepped forward to answer him. You'll hear how single combat was treated as God's own verdict on the siege, and the vow the boy made mid-fight to a shrine across the Adriatic. Best heard looking north from the ramparts, toward the field still known as Megdan.