Orange, France
1st century AD
Córdoba, Spain
206 BCE
Lecce, Italy
2nd century AD
Naples, Italy
400-500 BCE
Turin, Italy
13 BCE
Rome, Italy
6th century BC
Piazza Armerina, Italy
4th century AD
Trier, Germany
186-200 AD
Lindos, Greece
10th century BCE
Milan, Italy
300-400 AD
Sagunto, Spain
1st century AD
Mérida, Spain
25 BCE
Mérida, Spain
1st century AD
Rome, Italy
212-127 AD
Cádiz, Spain
1st century BCE
Cartagena, Spain
5 BCE
Pula, Croatia
27 BC - 68 AD
Capaccio Paestum, Italy
550-450 BCE
Rome, Italy
3rd century AD
Città Metropolitana di Roma, Italy
335 BC
The Church of St Donatus name refers to Donatus of Zadar, who began construction on this church in the 9th century and ended it on the northeastern part of the Roman forum. It is the largest Pre-Romanesque building in Croatia.
The beginning of the building of the church was placed to the second half of the 8th century, and it is supposed to have been completed in the 9th century. The Zadar bishop and diplomat Donat (8th and 9th centuries) is credited with the building of the church. He led the representations of the Dalmatian cities to Constantinople and Charles the Great, which is why this church bears slight resemblance to Charlemagne's court chapels, especially the one in Aachen, and also to the Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna. It belongs to the Pre-Romanesque architectural period.
The circular church, formerly domed, is 27 m high and is characterised by simplicity and technical primitivism.