DiocleSpot Tours

18/08/2024

Visited an interesting historical location today - a restored old Turkish 'han' in Vrana, near Pakoštane. It used to be a Turkish caravansererai - a stop for caravan merchants to stay over night and hold their animals and goods within the fortified walls of the inn so to be protected from getting raided. The merchants could enjoy some rest and nurishment within the safety. It's been restored and turned into a hotel and restaurant where you can eat some Turkish food and enjoy a nice traditional turkish coffee with baklava :)! Very interesting!

22/04/2024

One of my new 3D renders of Diocletian's Palace - this time it is Diocletian's Mausoleum or today's Cathedral of Split. I printed these in A3 format so they are visible in more detail as I use them for my demonstrations during the tour!

23/03/2024

A default barbaque in Croatia! I made some pork shoulder, pork belly and ćevapi cooked on natural wood. And some sides of mashed potatoes and sauerkraut pan fried with pancetta. Best way to spend a sunny sunday!

04/03/2024

Thank you Tim Richards on such a nice article about my tour! It was my pleasure taking a travel writer on a tour with me and I am happy you were fascinated by Split!

Link to the article on Exploretravel:

https://www.exploretravel.com.au/story/8540902/discover-roman-heritage-on-a-historical-walking-tour-of-split/

06/01/2024

Traditional plates for my mother-in-law's birthsday! Ehat a winter treat!

Dry meat of all kinds familiar to Croatia - many different sausages (some fried, some just wind dried) pancetta, stuffed eggs and - a must for winter - homemade sauerkraut just fried a bit with pancetta! Yup, this is definitely something you wanna eat during cold winter days!

17/12/2023

Octopus under the lid (Peka) and octopus salad. Traditional way to prepare food in the Ottoman influenced regions, but here in coastal parts of Croatia it has a little twist - we make seafood under the lid and its is something.

Here my wive's brother-in-law and I made it for the first time and I am very happy how it turned out. Also there is octopus salad on the side, which in my opinion even beats the main course in taste!

08/10/2023

Paradižot - Dalmatia's version of floating island dessert. I got blasted to childhood this morning when my mother-in-law made it for my daughters birthday! What a nice treat with my morning coffee!

04/03/2023

Ancient ruins of Salona! The largest archeological park in Croatia just 5 minutes from Split. This massive ruined city was the center of Roman provence of Dalmatia and a metropolis of it's time until it was devastated and forever destroyed by barbarians in the 7th century! A must see for big Riman history buffs

22/01/2022

Basement halls of Diocletian's Palace in Split, Croatia. They are one of the best-preserved structures of ancient Roman architecture of this kind and their existence is one of the main reasons why the core of the city of Split is enlisted in UNESCO-s world heritage sites in 1979. It is a large complex of around 60 circular, square, and crosslike chambers, located directly beneath what would have been the private quarters of Diocletian's residence.

16/01/2022

Looking forward to season 2022 ! ! ! Group tours are open from the 15th of April! Private tours are available throughout the entire year!

See you !🥳

25/06/2021

My attempt at making a 3D model of Diocletian's Palace is getting there! The model itself is done, but now comes the difficult task of learning the texturing process. As I am trying to represent the model as true to the original as I can, I've taken photos of the original parts of the Palace and tried to take them to 3D.

You can see the process of texturing the Palace with original photographs from the site on this article!

Thank you!

https://dioclespot.com/2021/06/25/texturing-process-of-my-3d-palace-model/

This is not a final render, it is still work in process! As the model itself is almost done, now comes a very difficult task of texturing it. My goal is to try and represent the model as close to t…

05/05/2021

During pandemic downtime, I was busy and tried to learn a new skill. It was 3D modeling. And after hundreds of hours, the first results are showing. Below is my work-in-progress reconstruction of Diocletian's Palace. I hope I will finish it sometime soon so I can use the model to demonstrate on my tablet side-by-side comparisons of how it used to look!

https://dioclespot.com/2021/05/05/my-3d-reconstruction-of-diocletians-palace-wip/

This is my work in progress of 3D reconstruction of Diocletian’s Palace. It started as a project during the first lockdown when there was a lot of downtime and we were permitted to do any tou…

05/05/2021

Happy to announce that the 2021 season has started on the 1st of May! Group and Private tours are running every day!

ALSO, my business has been approved by the World Travel & Tourism Council as a safe traveling option, and I have received the National Safty Badge - Safe Stay in Croatia for following all the necessary safety measures!

See you!