Split in 2 days, on foot

This 2-day self-guided walking plan for Split covers 20 narrated sights in an easy day-by-day order. Each day is split into a morning and an afternoon loop, and every stop has a two to three minute audio story in the Gingerguide app.

You set the pace: this is a suggested order, not a schedule. Walk it in 2 days, or stretch it out. Reorder freely; Split rewards a detour.

The Split route at a glance

Day 1

Day 1 covers 10 stops over about 1.9 km as the crow flies, from Fruit Square (Voćni trg / Trg braće Radić) to The Peristyle. ≈ 1.9 km between stops, straight line

Morning

1. Fruit Square (Voćni trg / Trg braće Radić): Everyone calls it Fruit Square for the market that once filled it, but the real draw is Meštrović's bronze Marko Marulić, father of Croatian literature, mid-sentence outside a Baroque palace. 0.1 km to the next stop
2. People's Square (Narodni trg / Pjaca): The locals call it Pjaca, not Narodni trg, a worn scrap of Venetian Italian for the square where Split has come to talk, trade, and be seen for centuries. 0.1 km to the next stop
3. Statue of Gregory of Nin (Grgur Ninski): A colossal Meštrović bronze of a tenth-century bishop who fought for mass in Croatian, toppled under wartime occupation, raised again in 1957, his big toe rubbed gold for luck. 0 km to the next stop
4. Golden Gate (Zlatna vrata / Porta Aurea): The palace's grandest gate, built for an emperor to ride home through, facing inland toward Salona near his birthplace, and hiding a thousand-year-old church tucked into the wall above. 0.1 km to the next stop
5. Silver Gate (Srebrna vrata / Porta Argentea): The palace's plain eastern gate, walled shut for centuries behind a Baroque church, until wartime bombing destroyed the church and freed the Roman doorway onto Split's bustling green market. 0.1 km to the next stop

Afternoon

1. Green Market (Pazar): Just outside the palace's Silver Gate, Split's open-air Pazar sells Dalmatian fruit, figs, cheese and flowers each morning, everyday shopping staged against a two-thousand-year-old Roman wall. 0.7 km to the next stop
2. Bačvice Beach (Bačvice): Split's shallow, sandy city beach just past the ferry port is the birthplace of picigin, the local shin-deep ball game where players keep a small ball from ever touching the water. 0.8 km to the next stop
3. Cathedral of Saint Domnius: The emperor Diocletian built this as his own tomb; within centuries it became a cathedral honouring one of the Christians he had martyred, history's most pointed reversal. 0 km to the next stop
4. Cathedral Bell Tower: Split's soaring signature on the skyline, a medieval bell tower, not a Roman one, and largely rebuilt around 1900, with roughly 183 steps to the finest view in town. 0 km to the next stop
5. The Peristyle: The palace's grand ceremonial court, where subjects once bowed to an emperor beneath red Egyptian columns, and where you can now drink coffee on the same seventeen-hundred-year-old steps.

Day 2

Day 2 covers 10 stops over about 1.7 km as the crow flies, from Temple of Jupiter to Marjan (Marjan Forest Park). ≈ 1.7 km between stops, straight line

Morning

1. Temple of Jupiter: A Roman temple to Jupiter, now the cathedral's baptistery, its coffered stone ceiling is one of antiquity's finest, and a headless Egyptian sphinx still guards the door. 0 km to the next stop
2. Diocletian's Palace: An entire old town lives inside this one: a Roman emperor's seafront retirement palace, so complete that Split's residents still hang laundry from windows cut in third-century walls. 0 km to the next stop
3. Vestibule (Vestibul): A round Roman hall where visitors once waited to meet the emperor, its dome long fallen open to the sky, step in and sing, and the stone answers. 0 km to the next stop
4. Palace Substructures / Cellars (Podrumi Dioklecijanove palače): Vast Roman cellars raised to lift an emperor's apartments above the sea, buried in rubbish for centuries, then dug out, and cast as the dungeon where Daenerys keeps her dragons. 0.1 km to the next stop
5. The Riva (Obala hrvatskog narodnog preporoda): Split's palm-lined seafront promenade runs right along the Roman wall of Diocletian's Palace, the whole city's open-air living room, where everyone strolls, gathers, and watches the sun drop behind Marjan. 0.1 km to the next stop

Afternoon

1. Prokurative (Trg Republike / Republic Square): It looks like a slice of Venice dropped onto the Adriatic, but the Prokurative is a nineteenth-century neo-Renaissance square, built after Venetian rule, and now one of Split's favourite open-air concert stages. 0.1 km to the next stop
2. Matejuška: Just west of the Riva, Split's old fishermen's cove is still a working boat harbour, and the city's favourite place to sit on the breakwater and watch the sunset. 0.3 km to the next stop
3. Fish Market (Peškarija): Split's covered fish market, the Peškarija, opened in 1890 in an elegant iron-and-stone hall, and locals still swear no fly ever dares to land on its marble slabs. 0.7 km to the next stop
4. Ivan Meštrović Gallery: The sculptor Ivan Meštrović designed this seaside villa as his own home and studio; today it displays his marble and bronze figures where he meant them to stand. 0.3 km to the next stop
5. Marjan (Marjan Forest Park): The pine-clad hill west of the old town is Split's green lung, a place of clifftop chapels, sea-view terraces and swimming coves that the whole city breathes with.

Distances are straight-line between stops; streets add a little.

Where the route eats

Food and market stops on the Split tour, each with its own story in the app:

• Green Market (Pazar): Just outside the palace's Silver Gate, Split's open-air Pazar sells Dalmatian fruit, figs, cheese and flowers each morning, everyday shopping staged against a two-thousand-year-old Roman wall.
• Fish Market (Peškarija): Split's covered fish market, the Peškarija, opened in 1890 in an elegant iron-and-stone hall, and locals still swear no fly ever dares to land on its marble slabs.

Updated: September 6, 2026

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