The secret of Skradin
Yet even a million inhabitants is not that which makes a city but the sense
of connection among its people, their respect for public good and social
norms.
A city is a state of mind and a way of life, there lays the secret.
The secret of ancient Skradin is hidden in the harmony of its good strategic
position, in its fertile fields, in the depths of its rivers and sea and in its
unusually beautiful scenery.
In Skradin this harmony was also transferred to the social community through the Medieval Statute of the town written
in Latin at the beginning of the 14th century, under the rule of the famous
Pavao Šubić when Skradin was the principal town of Croatia and Bosnia!
The original manuscript of the Statute is kept in Venice in St. Mark’s Library.
Long ago in the 4th century Skradin was the centre of the early Christian
diocese. Even earlier than that, it was the capital of the Roman Province of
Liburnia, and before that, the capital of Liburnia.
