Where the Sea Plays Music and Empires Left Their Mark
Before Rome was an empire, Zadar was already ancient. Illyrians, Romans, Byzantines, Venetians, Ottomans, Austrians, and Napoleonic French \u2014 all fought for this slender peninsula on the Adriatic.
Alfred Hitchcock stood here in 1964 and declared it "the most beautiful sunset in the world." Today, the sea itself makes music through marble steps, Roman columns stand beside medieval churches, and a golden shrine guards a saint\u2019s body for over 600 years.
Your mission: uncover 3,000 years of secrets, one riddle at a time.
"The sunset of Zadar is the most beautiful in the world, more beautiful even than Key West." — Alfred Hitchcock, 1964