Description

For a century there glowed a Dalmatia both modern and inhabited by all the centuries at once. Ancient cities still lived in the romance and danger and beauty of a hundred vanished empires. In winding streets and on the shining, white shores the legacies of Venice, Napoleon, and the Habsburgs stood side by side. The most beautiful cities in the world, Zadar, Šibenik, Split, Dubrovnik, promised mystery and adventure.

You can see them still. But you’ll need a guide.

The Time Traveler’s Guide To Dalmatia is a travel guide that brings you to the one place you can’t go in Croatia: the past. Travel with Dalmatia’s famous visitors from the 18th and 19th centuries as you explore Croatia’s magical coastline as it used to be. Art, maps, painting, sketches, and travel writings bring you through Dalmatia’s major cities, and some out of the way gems, with all the information you’ll need for your visit. Food, descriptions of the people, and top 3 sights to see in each city all come together to give you a real travel guide to 19th century Dalmatia.

But this isn’t a history book. More than 20 real travelers take us there. Aristocrats, architects, diplomats, students, and a doomed emperor all cross our path as we discover what the Croatian coast was like before the First World War, a land so familiar yet just beyond our reach.

This is your guide to seeing Dalmatia at the setting of a golden age. War looms on the horizon. But on our tour we can bask in the light of old empires, just one more time. It still exists there, waiting for us.

But we have to go back.

Are you coming with us?