St. Mary's Church

The church of St. Mary in Zadar is one of the most lovely churches by the Roman Forum, next to the great church of San Donato. It was constructed in the early times of Christianity, but is now a 16th-century façade. It keeps elements of the 11th century, like the bell tower, a convent, an Orthodox church constructed over a Roman temple, which contains the best collection of historical objects in the city. Hidden by the Benedictine nuns during wartime, the collection has the gold and silver from the Byzantine era of opulence, paintings, relics', crosses are more than 1000 years old. The bell tower, sometimes called the tower in honor of King Koloman of Croatia Hungarian, was constructed in the year 1110.