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Varoš, Split — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Varoš is the old stone quarter of Split, Croatia, threaded with lanes and small churches.
About Varoš
Where to stay in Varoš
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
Varoš climbs the slope just west of the old core of Split, a tight grid of stepped lanes rather than a hotel strip. Most beds here are rooms and small guesthouses tucked between stone houses, within a short walk of the Church of St. Nicholas in Varoš and the waterfront below. Pack light.
The steep alleys around St Martin's Church suit walkers who want the quarter's quiet over the crush of the central squares, and who don't mind carrying a bag uphill from the harbour.
About Varoš
What are the main landmarks in Varoš?
Small churches define Varoš. Varoš keeps its faith close to the lane, and the Church of St. Nicholas in Varoš stands among the stepped lanes as one of the quarter's oldest surviving buildings, and St Martin's Church sits nearby on the same slope. Higher up, the Chapel of Our Lady of the Belfry crowns the neighbourhood with a modest bell tower.
These are working parish churches rather than grand monuments, and they give Varoš a devotional character quite apart from the palace core of Split.
What is the history of Varoš?
Fishermen built Varoš. The quarter grew as a working settlement of stone houses on the slope beyond the walls of old Split, its lanes shaped by the families who lived off the harbour rather than by any grand plan. Varoš keeps its faith close to the lane, and the Church of St. Nicholas in Varoš and St Martin's Church still mark the parishes that anchored those households through the centuries.
That humble, hand-built origin is why the neighbourhood reads so differently from the imperial core of Split just to its east.
Where is Varoš?
Varoš covers roughly two square kilometres on the slope west of the old core of Split, a temperate coastal quarter where stepped stone lanes climb from the harbour toward the Chapel of Our Lady of the Belfry.
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Updated July 2026