Small-Group Communist Tour of Split - Boutique group tour

Highlights

Leistungen

Ablauf

1. We will meet at bus station on the Trg (Square) Franje Tuđmana where you will be introduced with details of the Communist tour of Split. Also, here you will be introduced with major happenings during World War II in Split and Yugoslavia in general which lead to the birth of the new communist state. You will be shown some pictures of damage made in Split during the War.

   25 Min.

2. Short panoramic stop will be done to see and hear about the most beatiful stadium built during communist period in Yugoslavia which was also very known outside of the country. One of the symbols of Split, Poljud Stadium was built to host the biggest sport happening in Yugoslavia until then, Mediterranean Games. Poljud Stadium was one of the top exhibits of Yugoslavia architecture exhibition held in MoMA in New York which explains a lot of its importance. On the same location attention will be given to the widest existing building in Split named "China Wall" which is also product of Yugoslavian socialist architecture.

   10 Min.

3. While you are walking around the "first shopping mall" in Yugoslavia you will be able to see and hear what was the "modern" idea of shopping in that communist state. You will find out about its short popularity and its decay during the years. Also, here you will be introduced with Yugoslavia consumer life, which has always been between "open west" and "closed east" and has its own story in which people often had to be creative for supplying themselves with different types of goods.

   30 Min.

4. Split 3 is a modern communist Yugoslavia neighborhood which was purposely built to provide quaility "living, working and resting" place for its habitants, It was unique high quaility project during communist era in Yugoslavia which became known in world terms as an example of excellent planned modern neigborhoods. While we are walking around and checking different architecture styles of local architects which gave signature on each building of this project like building called "Cruiser", you will find out about housing policy, educational system, health system, economy, social life and politics with emphasis on dictatorship of Yugoslav communist leader Tito, mostly through the examples of Split area. Split 3 project was also one of the top exibits on exibition of Yugoslavia architecture in Museum of Moden Art in New York where it was recognised as one of the high important residental projects of Yugoslavia in general. Also, on this location you will have some free time.

   1,2 Std.

5. On the final stop, Kopilica railway station, you will be able to hear some of the reasons why Yugoslavia didn`t manage to survive and why the end of it in the 1990`s was pretty violent and finished with bloody war. While you are listening the story you will be looking at armored train exposed on the railway. Armored train is symbolizing beggining of bloody end of Yugoslavia which had great consequences and which changed the relations between nations and religions in southeast Europe once again.

   30 Min.

Stornierung

Kostenlose Stornierung bis 24 Stunden vor Beginn, mit voller Rückerstattung.

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How it compares in Split

• Its from-price is 55% below the median of the 1250 experiences we list in Split.
• It is shorter than most of them.
• By number of reviews it ranks 487 of 1250.
• The operator lists free cancellation on it.

About Split

Split, lebhafter Hafen Dalmatiens, in und um den Palast eines römischen Kaisers gebaut, mit Fähren zu Kroatiens schönsten Inseln.

Der Diokletianpalast, um die Wende zum vierten Jahrhundert als Alterssitz des Kaisers erbaut, ist die Altstadt selbst: In seinen Mauern, Kellern und Höfen befinden sich Wohnungen, Läden und Cafés. Der Peristyl, der säulenumstandene Mittelpunkt, führt zur Kathedrale des Heiligen Domnius, einst das Mausoleum des Kaisers, und ihr Glockenturm bietet Ausblicke über die Dächer.

Top-ranked sights in Split: Budikovac Island (Veliki Budikovac), Blue Lagoon Croatia (Krknjasi Bay), Peristyle Square (Peristil).

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