Proud Past

Faust Vrančić from the 16th century, a true homo universalis, an inventor whose ideas were implemented throughout Europe centuries after his demise. Some of his inventions were even assigned to great Leonardo da Vinci.

Šibenik is the only Croatian town with two sites included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.

Any traveler coming from the sea, when entering Šibenik through the Channel of St. Anthony, will be welcomed by majestic St. Nicholas’ Fortress, named in tribute to the town’s patron saint.

From the days of St. Nicholas Tavelich – a Franciscan who lived in the 14th century and the first Croatian saint – up to the present day Šibenik has been a noble town always forward looking, always having an inextinguishable spark of love of creation, visionariness and age-defying beauty.