ZADAR PRIVATE WALKING TOUR

This Zadar walking tour shows the most important sites in the city. Experienced tour guides take you to the best of Zadar. What’s more, your tour will be led by a local Croatian expert. These knowledgeable guides have a true love of history and breadth of knowledge. Feel free to ask any questions you might have along the way, or for more information at any of the stops. Zadar is a city in the heart of the eastern coast of the Adriatic sea. The old city core is situated on a small Peninsula cca. 1 km x 400 m. The population is close to 80 000 inhabitants and still rising. Even though it’s a fifth city in the country, we can’t say that Zadar is a huge town. It’s a dream come true for those who are planning to start a family, for now.

There are at least 3 characteristics that will most definitely attract everyone to visit the old core with Zadar City Tour. If you don’t join Zadar walking tour in order to hear more about Roman architecture then you will surely join it because of the Venetian walls and bastions.
Surprisingly, a lot of people thinks that the main attraction lies in the view from the famous Riva (Promenade), called after a Croatian king Peter Krešimir the IVth.

The Greeting to the Sun. 

Sea Organ (Morske Orgulje)

Cathedral of St. Anastasia (no entrance)

The Roman Forum

Pillar of Shame

Church of St. Donatus (no entrance)

Benedictine Monastery of St. Maria (no entrance)

Kalelarga, Široka ulica (Pass by without stopping)

City Guard (no entrance)

City Hall (Loggia) (no entrance)

People’s Square

SEA ORGAN & THE GREETING TO THE SUN
Enjoy the view and music at one of the most popular public space installations in the world, Sea Organ (Morske Orgulje) & Greeting to the Sun (Pozdrav Suncu). Pass famous Promenade (Riva) admiring the view of Zadar Channel, islands of Ugljan and Pašman and the open sea to the northwest.

THE FORUM
Admire the symbol of Zadar, the church of St.Donat and look at the same time at the Belfry of the Romanesque Cathedral of St.Anastasia while standing on a 1st century B.C. Forum surrounded by roman architecture built at that time and later. Take a moment and glance at the Church and convent of St.Mary where the benedictine nuns kept for centuries Zadar’s most precious relics.

KALERAGA, KALELARGA
The most famous street of Zadar, Kalelarga, won’t leave you indifferent or wondering why Tomislav Ivčić, one of the most famous Croatian singers born and raised in Zadar, sung about this particular street in his song ‘Kalelarga’.

The tour will take you to the People’s Square (Narodni Trg) as well, where a lot of people like to meet or drink coffee. The tour introduces you to Zadar old town, the Peninsula approx. 1 km x 400 m, from Sea Organ to the port of Foša where the huge Land Gate’s triumphal arch closes the old core .