Today the Glagolitics Square is one of the three large squares in the city of Krk. Its importance lies in the fact that in the Middle Ages it was bordered by as many as four monastery complexes. The Franciscan monastery in the north and the Benedictine convent on the west of the square have remained until today. On the east side of the square, there was the Benedictine monastery and on the south side, where today there is the school gym, there was the Poor Clares convent. The square was approach ...

The church of St Peter is one in the series of churches in the city of Krk falling into oblivion. Only the toponym remained, along with a few vague oral information by the elder people on Krk, which are usually contradictory when it comes to the location of the church. It was situated on the margins of the city of Krk, near the road leading to Vrh.The church was mentioned for the first time in a document dated in 1338, so we know that the church existed at that time, but we cannot be sure about ...

This plain massive roughly carved stone is actually the oldest inscription found carved in Latin language and script in the area of Croatia. This is a public inscription reporting about the two builders; it seems they were autochthonous members of the community who built the wall up to the previously agreed height. It is believed that the construction of this part of the city wall could be closely connected with the events in the Roman Republic. To be more specific, that is when the Roman civil ...

One of the many churches and chapels in the Krk surroundings, which were lost, is the church of St Mary of the Spring, or Santa Maria Dell’Aqua. Its remains can be found on the site Lunta in the western periphery of Krk, in the zone of the Camp Ježevac. Until now, little was known about the church. It is mentioned in merely a few sentences in all bibliography, describing it only as a partially preserved church with traces of an apse, which is older than the sources say. The church was firs ...

The sanctuary of the Krk Cathedral is adorned by four paintings made by the Venetian master Cristoforo Tasca. They treat the scenes from the New Testament and key scenes from the life of Christ. Tasca is certainly not the best master of the Venetian Baroque, but the works he made in Krk fill the sanctuary with harmonious aesthetics with their dimensions (190x300) and formal intonation. The painter painted the scenes of manna gathering, multiplying bread, Abraham’s sacrifice and the last su ...

The Great Market or Platea Magna, as it is mentioned in the resources, represents the main square in Krk. The square was mentioned for the first time in 1263. In the Middle Ages, the great market was the centre of administrative life of the city. This is where the city hall and two city loggias were situated. The provisions by the provveditore Vinciguerra from 1489 ordered the performance of works on the western part of the walls where a large square tower, the Torrion, was erected, with a sout ...