An easy bus ride from the centre of Split, Salona was once the Roman Empire’s foremost city in the Balkans.
60,000 people lived in Salona’s at the city’s peak and although it was eventually ransacked and abandoned in the 600s the archaeological park is an enlightening day out, preserving significant fragments of the structures that used to stand here.
The most obvious of these is the amphitheatre, which once had a capacity for 18,000 spectators.
