Split - Šibenik

Private transfer from Split Airport to Šibenik

The best way to go and visit Šibenik is to book a private transfer from Split Airport to Šibenik.

MaciTours is a Croatian transfer service which offers the best prices for a private transfer. MaciTours has at its disposal a fleet of luxurious and premium vehicles that will make your transfer as comfortable as possible.

Šibenik is located some 70km from Split Airport and the duration of your transfer is about 1h.

The prices for a Split Airport to Šibenik private transfer start at 70 euros (the price is per vehicle, not per person).

How to get from Split Airport to Šibenik?

Every summer You get asked How to get from Split Airport to Šibenik. You need to come fast and easily in Šibenik. Like we mentioned above, the fastest and easiest way to get from Split Airport to Šibenik is to book a private transfer from Split Airport to Šibenik with MaciTours, Croatian transfer service. Private transfer between Split Airport and Šibenik You can book easily in less then one minute using our booking form. After You have made a successful booking You don't need to worry about anything.

That is not the only way How You can get from Split Airport to Šibenik. You can also take a bus which operates daily, average price is between 15-20 euro per person and it drives about 2h00min. Another option is to take taxi directly on the airport but that will be more expensive then private transfer and You don't know what You can except.

A few facts about Šibenik

Šibenik is a small port-city on the northern Dalmatian coast and is most famous for its Saint James Cathedral, which is on the UNESCO World Heritage list, as are the city wall, dating to the Venetian era.

Šibenik was first mentioned under its present name in 1066 in a Charter of the Croatian King Petar Krešimir IV. and was the seat of the Croatian King. That's why Šibenik is nicknamed Krešimir's city.

It is the oldest native Croatian town on the eastern shores of the Adriatic and a statue of King Petar Krešimir IV stands between the park and the beginning of the promenade along the sea.

It was a very important town in Venetian-Turkish wars and was a frontier of western civilization and Christianity for many centuries, eventually becoming a part of Austria-Hungary, Yugoslavia and now independent Croatia.

The 16th-century polymath and bishop Faust Vrančić, known as one of the inventors of parachute and perhaps the first man who ever used it, was born here and lived here.

The famous basketball player Dražen Petrović, and Maksim Mrvica, the famous piano player, were also born here.

A trademark of the city is the traditional Šibenik hat, a coloured orange and black, which are also the city's official colours.

What to see while in Šibenik

Šibenik is famous for its St James Cathedral, whose construction started in 1431 and was not finished until 1536 due to the Turkish wars.

Several successive architects built it completely in stone, without any kind of binder, in the 15th and 16th centuries, both in Gothic and in the Renaissance style. The interlocking stone slabs of the Cathedral's roof were damaged when the city was heavily shelled by Serbian forces in 1991, in an attempt to split the country in half. The damage has since been repaired.

Another curiosity of this church are the 72 human heads carved in stone on the external part which belong to unknown individuals, passers-by, sailors, merchants and peasants who posed as the cathedral was being built, as well as the statues of Adam and Eve, because Adam is covering his breasts, and Eve is covering not her breasts, but her stomach.

St. Michael's fortress, rising above the city, are the ruins of the 13th century, now converted into a summer stage, offering great views onto surrounding city and the bay are quite promising.

The medieval garden of the monastery St. Laurence is an extremely rare medieval monastery garden, restored in 2007, that has a quiet cafe, where you can quietly enjoy the view to the Šibenik's old part and the sea.

The Church of Saint Barbara is a beautiful small church dating from the 15th century with an asymmetric facade and a clock that is now the Museum of Church Art.

Another popular site among tourists are the Four draw-wells, an underground complex of water reservoirs that were built in the 15th century for city's water supply and are now a multimedia exhibition center called Wells - Secrets of Šibenik. Today, the reservoirs are dry and are decorated as a museum/gallery and a café.