Split hinterland Klis Klis Tourist Board T: +385 (0)21 240 578 F: +385 (0)21 240 675 tvrdavaklis@gmail.com www.tvrdavaklis.com
6
Klis is located just ten kilometres from the city of Split, on a pass reaching 340 metres above sea level, which separates the coastal part of Central Dalmatia and the Dalmatian hinterland. This former guardian of Dalmatian cities is the cradle of Croatian history with its famous fortress, one of the most important and architecturally beautiful fortified buildings in Croatia. In a document from 852, Klis is mentioned as an estate the court of the Croatian duke Trpimir and this fortress owes its fame mostly to battles from the time of the Ottoman Wars. The captain of the fort at that time, Peter Kružić, and his troops, called Uskoci, had resisted the attempts of the Turkish assailants for decades, until 1537 when the fort finally fell into Turkish hands. The fortress is 304 metres long from east to west and 53 metres wide in the north-south direction. The oldest part of Klis, at the foot of the fortress, houses a parish church, a three-aisled centuriesold basilica of monumental proportions, richly decorated with frescoes depicting biblical and historical motifs from national and Klis history. The fortress offers a beautiful view of the city of Split, and more recently, the fortress has become known as one of the stages on which a popular and award-winning American medieval fantasy television series Game of Thrones was filmed.
Klis, Dugopolje, Sinj,
