Historical landmark
People's Square
Fifteenth-century square anchored by a rare twenty-four-hour clock and the old Gothic town hall.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to People's Square in Split opens with a clock on the outer wall of the Iron Gate that carries twenty-four numbers instead of twelve, a design that has hung there since the fifteenth century and was never broken, just built to a system almost nobody today knows how to read. It traces how towns across Italy and up the Adriatic once counted a single unbroken run of hours starting at dusk rather than midnight, and why the design let a single hand serve where two loops of twelve needed more. Look up at the same worn face the confused traveler in the square is squinting at right now.
This audio guide was created using AI.