Split Private Walking Tour with Diocletian Palace & Food Tasting

A Roman emperor chose this spot partly for its sulphur springs, then quit ruling to grow cabbages. Split has taken both its history and its food seriously ever since. On this private walk, a local shows you the palace everyone comes for, the quarter almost nobody finds, and three places where Split actually eats.

Enter Diocletian's Palace through its vaulted cellars and climb into the Peristyle, where a 3,500-year-old Egyptian sphinx still guards the emperor's courtyard. Look up through the open dome of the Vestibule, where klapa singers often perform, and hear why the most powerful man in Rome walked away from his empire for a vegetable garden.

Leave by the Golden Gate to rub Gregory of Nin's shiny toe for luck, then cross People's Square and pass Peškarija, the fish market with no flies, thanks to the same sulphur springs that drew the emperor here. Next, slip into Varoš, the old fishermen's quarter of stone houses and narrow lanes, where locals still live before closing your tour.