Sibenik of Croatia-UNESCO-St.Nicholas fortress-UNESCO Burg in Sibenik Kroatien
Festung St. Nikolaus (Tvrđava sv. Nikola), Entwurf vom venezianischen Ingenieur Michiele Sammichelle, erbaut im 16. Jahrhundert am Eingang zum Antonius-Kanal (Sv. Ante) zur Verteidigung der Stadt von der Meerseite, auch zu Fuß erreichbar über die Promenade Sv. Ante.
Saint James Cathedral - Sibenik - Croatia
The Cathedral of St. James in Šibenik, Croatia is a triple-nave basilica with three apses and a dome (32 m high inside) in the city of Šibenik, Croatia. It is the church of the Catholic Church in Croatia, and the see of the Šibenik diocese. It is also the most important architectural monument of the Renaissance in the entire country. Since 2000, the Cathedral has been on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
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St Michael Fortress Sibenik, Croatia
St Michael Fortress in Sibenik is in the Gothic style from the 13th Century. Its battlements and towers are well preserved and have amazing views over the Krk River and Sibenik Old Town. Background music is On the Bach by Jingle Punks.
Church of St. Francis&museum-Old town (Šibenik)
Built in the 14th century, the church of St. Francis is the first Croatian shrine of Saint Francis Tavelić. The church...
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UNESCO - St. Nicholas Fortress - Šibenik
St. Nicholas Fortress (Croatian: Tvrđava Sv. Nikole) is a fortress located in the town of Šibenik, one of the oldest native Croatian towns on the eastern shores of the Adriatic, in central Dalmatia, Croatia.
Utvrda sv. Nikole pomorska je obrambena utvrda smještena na otočiću Ljuljevcu, na ulazu u kanal sv. Ante kraj Šibenika.
Eric Clark Travel Videos - Sibenik Croatia - St Michael Fortress. Mountain top Castle / Fortress
Eric Clark Travel Videos - Sibenik Croatia - St Michael Fortress. Mountain top Castle / Fortress
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St. Michael's Fortress in the Croatian town of Šibenik (formerly known as St. Anne's Fortress, Croatian: Tvrđava sv. Mihovila, Venetian: Castel vecchio) is a medieval fort situated on a steep hill above the old historic center of the city. Its strategically favorable and dominant position made it the central part of Šibenik fortification system. The location was more or less continuously occupied since the Iron Age, as is witnessed by numerous archaeological findings from the era.[1] The city of Šibenik was first mentioned on Christmas Day of 1066 in a charter signed by King Petar Krešimir IV and verified by his courtiers. It is widely considered that the signing took place at St. Michael's Fortress.[2]
St. Michael's Fortress was named after the oldest church in Šibenik, St. Michael's church, which was located inside its walls.[3] One theory suggests that the church was built during the first wave of Christianization of Croatia, from the late 8th to the early 9th century.[4] The first source that mentions St. Michael's church is a 12th/13th century hagiographic text Vita beati Ioannis episcopi et confessoris Traguriensis.[5] During the Venetian rule, an unflattering name castel vecchio (old castle) was commonly used.[6] The miraculous image of Madonna of the Castle, highly revered by the citizens of Šibenik, was originally kept inside St. Michael's church.[7] In 1663, the church, along with a large part of the fortress, was destroyed when a lightning strike caused an explosion of a gunpowder magazine.[8] During the renovation, a statue of St. Anne (the protector from storms) was brought to a small 16th-century church located below the southeastern walls of the fortress.[9] This church came to be known as St. Anne's church, and the surrounding area became the city graveyard in 1828.[10] As the centuries passed, and the fortress got permanently closed as a military facility, the citizens of Šibenik began calling it St. Anne's Fortress, after the often-used public area nearby.
The importance of the fortress is evident not only in its favorable geographical position, but also in numerous archaeological findings, ranging from the Iron Age to 20th century. Throughout history, the fortress has been destroyed and rebuilt several times. Most of the fortress' structures can be dated to the early years of Venetian occupation, the early 15th century, but its numerous adaptations and interventions can be traced to mid-16th, early and mid-17th, mid-18th, and even early 19th centuries.[11] As is typical for military architecture, St. Michael's Fortress contains only a few stylistically distinctive parts, for instance, the Gothic arch above the main entrance gate. The walls of the fortress are decorated with several coats of arms belonging to the city rectors or fortress' castellans that carried out certain construction works. Access to water, a key requirement of military life, was enabled via two cisterns that have been preserved to this day.[12] Other supporting structures, such as barracks, storage rooms and other facilities, have not been preserved. The fortress consists of several elements: a castle/citadel, the northern and southern faussebraye, a lower western platform (place-of-arms), and the extending double walls that descend to the sea and were used for retreat or for providing supplies for the soldiers. At the end of the 11th century, Šibenik was referred to as a castrum.[13] An 1116 report on the military campaign of Venetian Doge Ordelafo Faliero stated that the Doge had destroyed this impregnable fort.[14] During the High Middle Ages, the Archangel Michael became the dominant iconographic symbol of the Šibenik commune.[15] In 1378, Venetian admiral Vettore Pisani failed to take over the fortress, succeeding however in conquering and setting fire to the rest of the city and its archives.[16] In 1412, after a three-year siege, the city of Šibenik fell under the rule of the Venetian Republic and remained its part for a little less than four hundred years. Under the terms of the peace treaty, the fortress was to be demolished, but after only a year or two, the citizens asked their new government to fund its renovation.[17] The double walls (strada del soccorso) were formed in the first decades of Venetian rule to ensure the safety of Venetian garrison.[18] During the long rule of the republic, the city's fortification system was reinforced with additional objects, Barone Fortress, St. John's Fortress and St. Nicholas' Fortress. St. Michael's fortress was badly damaged in two explosions in 1663 and 1752, and due to its lesser importance in the city defense, it has never been fully rebuilt. The last interventions were made by the Austrian army in 1832.[19] A signal station on the southeastern tower was constructed in 1911 to direct naval traffic through St. Anthony's Channel.[20]
Fortresses of Šibenik - St Michael, Šibenik, Croatia
Postcard of Tribunj - riviera Šibenik, Croatia
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Name Tribohunj, which dates from 1463, reflecting the ancient Slavic mythology. Since it was called later emerged Rebocconi Italian name, which means three pieces. Village Tribunj originally did a fortified castle on a small island with narrow streets and compact houses, which can shelter people fleeing from the Turks. The Austrian government has regulated the landing of white stone on the south side was piled large stones to break the waves and how not to do dope house. The second part of the coast of the island residents as they poured themselves with stones and earth so the night procession on Good Friday 1935th first time, able to go around the whole village.
On the hill of the mainland of the 1298th mentioned Jurjevgrad fortress on whose ruins, the cemetery, 1452nd built a church of Sv. Nicholas. The church was built Šižgorić Simon, a devoted bishop Juraj Šižgorić 1463rd St. Nicholas, patron saint of sailors and fishermen, the protector of the Tribunja which is widely known just as a fishing village. Even the older Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (also known as the Church of Our Lady) in Vrtle that exists from 1435
Church of the Assumption, where Mass is held today, was built in 1883. at Mount St. podanku. Nicholas in plain view in the village on the island.
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Bajkovita Hrvatska - Šibenska katedrala (Katedrala Sv. Jakova)
Sibenik Cathedral
The Cathedral of St. James (Croatian: Katedrala sv. Jakova) in Šibenik, Croatia is a triple-nave basilica with three apses and a dome (32 m high inside) in the city of Šibenik, Croatia. It is the church of the Catholic Church in Croatia, and the see of the Šibenik diocese. It is also the most important architectural monument of the Renaissance in the entire country. Since 2000, the Cathedral has been on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
It is often mistakenly known as St Jacob's, because Croatian, like many other languages, uses the same name for both James and Jacob. It is dedicated to Saint James the Greater.
Inside the cathedral there are four large, evenly matched columns on which the dome rests. The builder decorated the capitals and came to arrangements with the nobles who were to finance the building of chapels, on condition that they would be free to choose their own builders.In the first chapel on the right-side, there is the sarcophagus of the bishop, humanist and writer Juraj Šižgorić (1420-1509) which is the work of Andrija Aleši based on a design by Juraj Dalmatinac. Aleši also created the statue of St. Elijah which stands behind the bishop's throne. On the left-hand side is the sarcophagus of Bishop Ivan Štafilič, during whose life the cathedral was completed. Beneath the choir there are the graves of two bishops, which reliefs: on the right Bishop Calegari and on the left, Bishop Spingarola. The latter is the work of the local artist Antun Nogulovič.
Opposite the famous Altar of the Holy Cross (Sveti Križ) made by Juraj Čulinovič (Giorgio Schiavone) is buried (1433 or 1446-1505). On the altar there is a painting by Felipe Zaniberti. Amongst other altars to the left of the entrance is the Altar of the Holy Three Kings with a painting by Bernardo Rizzardi, according to the ground plan of Juraj Dalmatinac. The fragments of the mosaic of the Holy Three Kings in St. Mark's Basilica in Venice are now in the Museo Marciano in Venice. The sides of the altar are decorated with reliefs of two angels holding the scroll of Nikola Firentinac, set into shell-shaped niches. The Cathedral Treasury includes works by the Renaissance master Horacije Fortezza of Šibenik (1530-1596), an exceptional goldsmith and miniaturist.
After Fiorentino died in 1505, the construction was finally completed in 1536 by two other craftsmen, Bartolmeo of Mestra and his son Jacob, completely following Nicholas' instructions. The cathedral officially became consecrated in 1555 after a multitude of Venetian and local craftsmen had worked on it, in Gothic style. Most of the restoration was done between 1850 and 1860 and subsequently between 1992 and 1997.
The dome of the church was heavily damaged by the JNA-supported Serb forces during the shelling of Šibenik in September 1991. Within years it was quickly repaired with no damage visible. It is interesting to note that this cathedral has no bell-tower. A tower on the adjoining city walls served this purpose.
The building of the church was initiated in 1402, though plans on its construction had already begun in 1298, when Šibenik became a municipality. The actual work to transform the older Romanesque cathedral began in 1431. Built entirely of stone (limestone from a nearby stone quarry and marble from the island of Brač), it was completed in three phases, from 1433 to 1441, when the Grand City Council entrusted the work to local and Italian masters Francesco di Giacomo, Lorenzo Pincino, Pier Paolo Bussato, Bonino da Milano, and Giorgio da Sebenico (Juraj Dalmatinac) and to Croatian ones Andrija Budčić and Grubiš Šlafčić.
The Cathedral of St James in Šibenik (UNESCO/NHK)
The Cathedral of St James in Šibenik (1431-1535), on the Dalmatian coast, bears witness to the considerable exchanges in the field of monumental arts between Northern Italy, Dalmatia and Tuscany in the 15th and 16th centuries. The three architects who succeeded one another in the construction of the Cathedral - Francesco di Giacomo, Georgius Mathei Dalmaticus and Niccolò di Giovanni Fiorentino - developed a structure built ...
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Barone Fortress in Šibenik, Croatia
Barone Fortress is a recognizable monument of cultural heritage in the city of Šibenik and a unique tourist attraction, which combines the past, present and the future by displaying the circumstances of a vital historical event through modern technology, and promoting at the same time the celebrated Mediterranean diet and lifestyle.
Church of Saint Donatus
Light and sound exhibition at a 9th Century church located in Zadar, Croatia
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Šibenik in Croatia
Šibenik is a historic town in Croatia, located in central Dalmatia where the river Krka flows into the Adriatic Sea. Šibenik is a political, educational, transport, industrial and tourist center of Šibenik–Knin County.
The central church in Šibenik, the Cathedral of St. James, is on the UNESCO World Heritage list.
Several successive architects built it completely in stone between 1431 and 1536, both in Gothic and in Renaissance style. The interlocking stone slabs of the Cathedral's roof were damaged when the city was shelled by Serbian forces in 1991. The damage has since been repaired.
The Cathedral of St James in Šibenik
The Cathedral of St James in Šibenik (1431-1535), on the Dalmatian coast, bears witness to the considerable exchanges in the field of monumental arts between Northern Italy, Dalmatia and Tuscany in the 15th and 16th centuries. The three architects who succeeded one another in the construction of the Cathedral - Francesco di Giacomo, Georgius Mathei Dalmaticus and Niccolò di Giovanni Fiorentino - developed a structure built entirely from stone and using unique construction techniques for the vaulting and the dome of the Cathedral. The form and the decorative elements of the Cathedral, such as a remarkable frieze decorated with 71 sculptured faces of men, women, and children, also illustrate the successful fusion of Gothic and Renaissance art.
The Sibenik cathedral is a project by Marko Dabrovic from RNA.HR .Originally created for a rendering contest and since adopted by the global illumination community as a test model.
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Church of St. Mihovil (Trogir)
By the monasteries of St. Nicholas and St. Peter there was the female Benedictine monastery of St. Michael. It was...
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Cathedral Frieze of 71 Heads, Sibenik, Croatia
The Cathedral of St James in Sibenik is a World Heritage Listed Site. Carved into the exterior walls is the Freize of 71 Heads, a 15th Century caricature depiction of the village citizens. Background music is Tonto by Silent Partner.
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Relief art on front of doors leading to the baptistery, Katedrala St. Jakova, Šibenik, Croatia
If there are only three entrances to Katedrala St. Jakova (The Cathedral of St. James) - a UNESCO site - then they all exhibit different art décor related to passages from the bible (thanks to Vita for this info.). However, this particular décor was to me the most impressive because it literally extends the art from the doors to create a 3D effect which I believe I captured well with my video.
Note: This video was filmed and posted with permission. Thanks to employees Vita and Toni for giving me additional info. about the katedrala.
Church of St Peter and Paul (Brač)
Nerežišča is a municipality on the island of Brač known for its many interesting sights. The local residents are mainly...
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The Fort of St. John (Šibenik)
St. John’s Fortress is located on a hill on the northern side of the historic city core. It is named after the chapel of St...
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Brdo, sjeverno od stare gradske jezgre Šibenika, krasi tvrđava sv. Ivana. Nazvana je po kapelici sv. Ivana koja se...
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