As Croatian castrum, a fort or camp, near the fortress of St.. Michael, which still dominates the town, Sibenik was first mentioned in 1066 in the document of the most important rulers of the Croatian state - King Petar Kresimir IV. Sibenik, as autochthonous Croatian town, gets civitet or status of the city, 1290th year, when the diocese of Sibenik.
After the Croatian rulers (and the Croatian-Hungarian) and the occasional rule of Venice in the 15th century it came under nearly 400-year Venetian rule, and from that time comes, and the most important cultural and historical monument of Sibenik - known the Cathedral of St.. James, built in the 15th and 16 century.
In the 15th and 16 St. Šibenik is one of the most important Croatian humanist and renaissance center. In his work writers George Hafner, A. and Faust, Peter and John Divnic Polycarp Severitan, musicians Ivan figure, Julius and John Skjavetic Lukačić, Dinko Zavorović historian, painter Nikola Vladanov and Juraj Aulinović, graphic Kolunić Martin Rota, Horace Fortezza and Natal Boniface and many sculptors and builders of the circle around George Matthew Dalmatian.
A scientist and visionary, lexicographer and storyteller, philosopher and theologian, Faust is the most important Croatian Renaissance personality. The writer of the first Croatian dictionary, the author of the famous book of projects and inventions Machinae novae (new machines). Among the many ideas of emphasized drawing homo volans (flying man), the first printed view parachute flight in history. Church and Monastery of St.. Francis from the 14 century, the first Croatian national shrine of st. Nicholas Tavelića, for centuries a significant church and cultural center.
In the monastery's collection is kept more than 150 inkonabula and as many valuable manuscript codices, among which the famous prayer of Sibenik, the first Croatian poetic text written in Latin. The church has been preserved in its original form the famous organ builders of the organ of the Croatian Petar Nakic, who worked in the 18 c. A lively, contemporary cultural creativity Sibenik testify today Traditional International Children's Festival Šibenik - Croatia.
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