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Split
is
a city and port in Central Dalmatia.
Situated on a peninsula between the eastern part of the Gulf of
Kastela and the Split Channel.
Split is not only an urban, cultural and traffic centre of
Dalmatia with road and sea connections to Dalmatia's numerous
summer resorts, but it is itself often a tourist and excursionists
destination. Split is a major sports centre (the 1979
Mediterranean Games) with many famous and popular sports clubs and
competitors. There are also many sports facilities for
recreational purposes. The sports offer includes almost all types
of water and other sports, from football, basketball and tennis to
mountain climbing and rifle-shooting, water skiing and rowing.
Split has a variety of restaurants and wine cellars, offering
domestic specialities. There are many beaches and public beaches
in the city and its surroundings, the most popular of them being
Bačvice,
a sand beach almost in the very heart of the town.
The Split Saturday Nights are de-voted to classical music. Split
also hosts pop-music events, the Art-Summer, folklore shows, the
folk feast Day of Radunica. |
