Introduction
Most people who explore this little town on an island don't stay overnight, but visit as part of a day excursion. Nin is connected to the mainland by a couple of stone pedestrian bridges ( Gornji most and Donji most) and there aren't many facilities for housing tourists in town. In addition, there isn't a lot to do in Nin except explore the historic churches and a few shops, and rub the toe of yet another Mestrovic statue of Gregorius of Nin for luck. Nonetheless, the little town that once was an important center of Catholicism in medieval times is alluring.
Nin was a thriving town during the Roman Empire and became a municipality at the end of the 1st century under the Emperor Augustus. As with most Roman settlements, Nin had its own Forum, an amphitheater, and a temple that is the largest discovered in Croatia so far.
The Romans kept control of Nin until the 7th century, when the Avars and Slavs appeared on the scene, but the invaders didn't completely destroy the town,...
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Bishop Grgur Ninski (Gregorius of Nin) Memorial
Ivan Mestrovic's sculpture of the famous cleric is sometimes mistaken for a statue of Merlin the magician from Arthurian times, and versions of...
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Church of St. Anselmo and Treasury
The plaque outside identifies this parish church as the town's former cathedral with a construction/renovation history spanning the 6th to the...
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Holy Cross Church
At first glance, the 9th-century Holy Cross Church is reminiscent of any pueblo church in America's Southwest. The church's whitewashed exterior...
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