Diocletian's Palace is one of the best preserved monuments of Roman architecture in the world. The Emperor's Palace was built as a combination of a luxury villa - a summer house and a Roman military camp (castrum), divided into four parts by two main streets. In that scheme, the southern part of the Palace was intended for the emperor, his apartment and the corresponding state and religious ceremony, while the northern part was for the imperial guard - army, servants, warehouses and the like.

The palace is a rectangular building (about 215 x 180 meters) with four large towers at the corners, doors on each of the four sides and four smaller towers on the walls. The lower part of the walls is without any openings, while the upper floor is dissolved by a monumental porch to the south and corridors with large arched windows on the other three sides. Over the centuries, the inhabitants of the palace, and then the citizens of Split, adapted these spaces to suit their needs, so the buildings inside and the outer walls with towers greatly changed their original appearance, but the outlines of the imperial palace are still very visible.

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