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 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 ...

Archaeological findings from the 1970s, lead by Andre Mohorovičić, brought forth one of the most interesting findings from the Roman period in the city of Krk – the city thermae, built in the 1st century. The thermae are one of the main indicators of Roman urbanization, which shaped life in the city in the first four centuries. Besides the forum, the thermae represented the centres for gathering in any ancient city. Their architecture was strictly defined by architectural rules of the Roma ...

Based on the idea of the continuity of sacral edifices, the first Krk cathedral should be on the place of the today’s cathedral. Most churches in the city of Krk are merely reflections of the continuity of church construction, changing its appearance through history under the influence of architectural trends in the corresponding historical epoch.Today, when we observe the Krk cathedral of St Mary, we can see a product of the Middle Ages, which after a major reconstruction in the Romanesqu ...