Marjan Hill
A pine forest on a peninsula, with Split, the islands and the Dinarides in one look.
Duration
1 hr 30 min – 3 hrs
Difficulty
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Best time
Early morning, or late afternoon
Open
Every day
Entry price
Free
Marjan is a wooded peninsula of three hundred and forty hectares west of Split, planted with Aleppo pine from the nineteenth century on a hill that had been bare. It is the city's lung and a protected forest park since 1964.
From the stairway climbing out of the Varoš quarter you take the successive terraces: the first looks over the harbour and the palace, the last to the islands of Brač and Šolta and the Dinaric range behind. Fifteenth-century hermitages are cut into the southern cliff, and rocky coves line the foot of the peninsula.
Getting there
Stairway from the Varoš quarter, ten minutes on foot from the Riva. A perimeter road circles it for cyclists.
What to bring
- Walking shoes
- 1.5 L of water
- Reef shoes
- Cap
Rules on site
There is no shade on the lower terraces and the stairway is steep: avoid the middle of the day in summer. The southern coves are rocky, and water shoes help.
