Zadar

Zadar is the city I‘ll always enjoy to spend my vacation in. I'm a kind of a man easily fascinated by the architecture; I can fall in love with a building at glance and than I can stand in front of it all day long, studying piece by piece, and installing it in my memory base.
Zadar is filled with such treasures that intrigue my little brain cells. His ancient history made it so incredible and interesting, especially the position of the old town on the peninsula, and his big and strong city walls which kept the enemy away. Beautiful churches and squares inside these walls always bring back the fairy tale alive before my eyes, when Zadar was main town of eminent Croatian kings and queens.

I have visited Zadar once again that year and, as I never got tiered of it, I wandered along it’s stony mystical streets of Kalelarga as like it was for the first time. When I came on the shore, I discovered something new that blew my mind right away. As the sea waves emerged with the cold, stony coast, the gentle and soft music came out and spread the surrounding air. This installation is called Sea organs. I have never seen anything like this! Man's hand and the nature force brought together such beauty turned into music. Like a real hustler as I am, I gathered all the information about the organs, and I found out this: Sea organs are labor of engineer Nikola Bašić and co. They are located on the west side of the coast, on the place where the ground has cascade levels. In this levels were installed tubes which, influenced by the sea, produce magical sounds. They are officially opened on a 15. April, 2005.
Browsing this site, I discovered one more miracle of modern architecture called Greeting to the Sun, also a masterpiece of the same author. It a solar, glass, round panel which, at night, produces amazing dance of light, and during the day, it presents a kind of calendar with names of the saints of Zadar with the date, height of Sun in meridian and duration of the sunlight on that date. Pretty impressive to me!
These new discoveries mean a lot to my humble personality, because they managed to connect the nature I admire and honor with my precious architecture. And I was sitting for hours there, all of the days of the rest of my vacation. Wind was composing tunes, different each day and at night I watched a thousand color painting projected by his majesty the Sun.