This Solin beauty takes us along the traces of the Game of Thrones, but also into the magnificent history of this area. The amphitheatre used to belong to ancient Salona, once the capital of the Roman province of Dalmatia, whose size can be seen from the remains of the imposing walls with towers, the city gates, a forum with temples, a theatre and a cemetery for Salonitan martyrs.
The amphitheatre was built in the second half of the 2nd century BC, outside the walls, but soon, due to the expansion of the city, it became part of the city itself, and its ramparts became part of the city walls. A cemetery for dead gladiators was found near the amphitheatre with inscriptions of their names, origins and martial specialities.
A depiction of the city on Trajan’s Column in Rome tells us about the importance of Salona in ancient times. Apart from the ancient cradle, Solin is also considered the cradle of ancient Croatian history. That is, Solin is one of the three important centres of the time where Croats immigrated around the year 800. The most valuable monument from that time is the Inscription of the Croatian queen Jelena, who ruled the kingdom from Solin, and the information about the coronation of the Croatian king Zvonimir in the Church of St. Peter and Moses in 1075.