Beach
Žnjan City Beach
Pebble beach rebuilt in 2025 on the plateau where a pope once celebrated an open-air Mass.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Žnjan City Beach in Split follows an unlikely earlier chapter for this shoreline: the pre-dawn gathering of half a million people on the fourth of October 1998, when Pope John Paul the Second came to mark seventeen hundred years since the city's founding. You'll hear about the floating altar shaped like a ship, the choirs and clergy who filled this reclaimed plateau, and the decades of near-abandonment that followed once the crowds went home. Stand here among today's swimmers and volleyball games and picture the plateau before the sand arrived.
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