Zadar — Zadar Map Poster & Print

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Zadar Map Poster & Print

Zadar's old town fills a slim peninsula on the Dalmatian coast, and from above it reads as a compact lozenge of streets bounded on almost every side by water. The lanes inside follow a street plan inherited from the Roman town, so the core looks unusually orderly for a Mediterranean port. On its inland side, a small sheltered harbour separates the peninsula from the mainland.

Beyond the peninsula, the city spreads along the shore and back from it in looser blocks, with residential districts, marinas and main roads reaching towards the airport and the countryside. Across the Zadar Channel lies the long outline of Ugljan and the islands behind it. On a Zadar map poster that parallel coastline gives the composition a strong horizontal rhythm, with land, water and island stacked in bands.

Zadar is known for the remains of its Roman forum, the round ninth-century church of St. Donatus beside it, and the Venetian fortifications that still ring parts of the peninsula. On the western tip, the Sea Organ and the Greeting to the Sun, both designed by architect Nikola Bašić, turn the waterfront into a place where people gather at dusk. Even at map scale, that tip is the obvious focal point.