Crazy for Croatia: Five Musts — intelligenttravel.nationalgeographic.com

Not to knock Dubrovnik, with its marble streets, 16th-century city walls, sparkling red roof tiles, and primo location—it more than earns its moniker of “Pearl of the Adriatic,” not to mention its UNESCO World Heritage status. But if you cross Croatia off your list after you’ve seen Dubrovnik, you’re missing out on a lot. Here are five other gems to discover. When the Roman emperor Diocletian decided to retire at the beginning of the fourth century, he built himself a super-sized palace on the Dalmatian coast, a complex that was in fact equal parts personal villa and military garrison. UNESCO describes the palace—which now forms the center of modern-day Split—as “one of the most famous and integral architectural and cultural buildings on the Croatian Adriatic coast.”

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