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2025-05-17 Šibenik

Today we explored Šibenik. We bought the ticket for three fortresses and used that as an excuse to walk all over town.

Claudia took most of the urban pictures; I took most of the flower pictures. 😅

We started by walking into a market.

Alex standing between vegetable stands

We saw a huge moss covered rock. I like such living rocks. Too bad we didn’t think of identifying the mosses! 😂

a big rock covered in moss

The old town is full of narrow alleys and a ton of stairs.

an alley, maybe three metres wide

We looked at the cathedral but we were unwilling to pay 7€ per person. The faces on the outside looked very modern to me. The lion looking hungrily at them looked modern as well.

Alex in front of the cathedral faces and a lion head more stairs Alex on the stairs old builings and more stairs

From the fortresses, we enjoyed a nice view. overlooking the old town and the port area

Some sort of cemetery lies within one of the forts!

a cemetery

Looking from the first fortress (St. Michael) to the next hill with another fortress (St. John). As it turns out, we got lost on the way and had to go to the Barone fortress, first. We felt like attackers being led astray.

a fortress on a hill more stairs Alex on a dirt road to the last fortress

Looking back at the first fortress, and the Šibenik bay, the islands beyond, and the narrow passage leading past the fourth fort (St. Nicholas, which we didn’t visit) to the sea.

a coastal town under the sun

Gewöhnlicher Natternkopf
Echium vulgare

purple flowers

Stephanskraut
Delphinium staphisagria

violet flowers

Spritzgurke
Ecballium elaterium

pale yellow flowers

Binsenginster
Spartium junceum

bush with yellow flowers

Elegante Winde
Convolvulus elegantissimus

pink flowers

Klatsch-Mohn
Papaver rhoeas

red flowers

For context, a view of the rocky landscape and the flowers that grow here.

rocks, pink, yellow and red flowers

Schneeweißer Alant
Pentanema verbascifolium

yellow flowers

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