Castle
Palača Milesi
Three-storey Baroque palace with round-arched former shopfronts, built by a merchant family turned nobility.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to Palača Milesi on Split's old fruit square opens with a 2024 signing that closed a story running back more than three centuries, when a merchant family bought their way into the city's nobility and built that new status into stone. It follows the round-arched shopfronts that once sold cloth and spice, the Baroque facade above them, and how the palace passed from the Milesi family to Croatia's Academy of Sciences and Arts. A bronze of the writer Marko Marulić, cast by the sculptor Ivan Meštrović, has stood watch on the square since 1925.
This audio guide was created using AI.