Sightseeings Nin - Recommendations for your Holiday in Nin
Baptismal Font of Prince Viseslav
A baptismal font of Prince Viseslav who was, according to some historians, the first Croatian prince who ruled about 800 year, origins from Nin. The baptismal font is an important part of the church's furniture. It testifies about the time of baptizing of Croats. It is a six-sides stone vessel into which believing people were dived by baptizing. The copy of the font is in the Archaeological Collection in Nin and the original is in the Museum of Croatian Archaeological Monuments in Split.
Church of St. Cross - the Smallest Cathedral in the World
The church of St. Cross from the 9th century ,called «the smallest cathedral in the world» dominates over the area with its position and beauty mong the most important preserved monuments of the old Croatian church architecture, of an unique architectural style. It is put into the representative monuments of the early middle ages architecture.
It is a building of interesting central type with a ground plan in the form of a cross with a lot of irregularity in the ground plan. All the branches are surmounted by a cupola which has a dominant accent on that building - it is in irregular, oval and elongated form and it is being narrowed on the top. The outside wall is decorated by a row of blind niches. A very significant detail on the church is a stone lintel above the door which is decorated by an interlacing-ribbon pattern. At the lower side there is the carved name of the district-governor Godecaj. Near the church some early middle ages graves were found with relatively little findings which could be dating from the 8th till the 15th century. On the terrain were found the destroyed parts of antique architecture in dry-wall technics and also parts of the material culture of Croats from the 8th century. The church of St. Cross is a building of central type with blind niches. Its ground plan is one - branch Greek cross. This building was created and had a meaning to serve like o'clock or a calender.
Bishop Grgur from Nin
One of the most significant bishops from Nin is certainly bishop Grgur from Nin, the chancellor of the Croatian Court. In the 10th century he was the main fighter for old-slavic language and for using of Glagolitic in liturgy.
The bronze sculpture of bishop Grgur awaits you proudly in the center of the old city of Nin «making» your wishes come true if you touch his tomb. The sculpture is a work of famous Croatian sculptor Ivan Mestrovic who gave sculptures of bishop Grgur to the city of Varazdin, and to Split ( the version in Split is more monumental and not fully like original). The sculpture in Varazdin was erected on the 20th of September 1931 and the sculpture of an identical shape was erected in Nin on the 10 th September 1969 on the occasion of 900 anniversary of issuing a chart by Croatian king Petar Kresimir IV, in which he spread the kingdom on the sea and on the mainland and with which he called our sea Mare nostrum.
National Script - Glagolista
The Glagolitsa is the script on which the oldest literary and historical works of Croats were written. This monument is a proof of Croats primordial culture and resistant strength.
Church of St. Nikola
St. Nikola's church is located on a hill-earthen grave in the field for crowning Prahulje near Nin and represents the most romantic monument in the history of Nin. According to the people tradition seven kings were crowned in Nin and on the occasion of crowning the crowned ruler would arrive riding with the suite to the church of St. Nikola. There he introduced himself to the people and made a sign with a sword to the four sides of the world. The church is the only preserved example of the Romanesque architecture with the central ground-plan and the cross-ribbed vault.
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