Enjoyed a tour at Ivan Mestrovic Gallery. I personally had never heard of him, but,
after having the curator at the museum educate us and we got to see then seeing his work, we felt it was/is pretty impressive. He’s Croatian,
but did eventually move to the States and became a US citizen. His work is quite distinctive and located all
over the world.
We finished up there, and headed back to the city, next to
the waterfront where we toured the Emperor’s Palace (yes, a Roman Emperor!). This was built around 300 AD as the
retirement home of Diocletianus, a Roman Emperor who was quite interesting. We walked around the palace all the while we
had a guide really filling us in on the place.
It was originally filled with the pagan worship items, gold, marble, which
made sense as the Emperor was known to kill Christians at that time and embraced the Roman values. Christians, though, won out in the end, and
within the Palace walls, Jupiter’s room was turned into John’s Baptistry, a cathedral
was built over the mausoleum, get my drift? Today, the area is filled with shops, apartments, restaurants… all
within this history!
The above two people are neat, so google them if you really
want to know about them!
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