Church of St. Mark — Local services in Grad Hvar

We tried to enter the church multiple times during our stay in Hvar and we were successful only one time. They don’t have hours posted and so it’s difficult to know when to come in. However, there was a wedding going on inside the courtyard of the church and we went in shortly after the ceremony. The church itself looks more like a storage facility for the wedding venue, which is the courtyard. Pretty strange if you ask me. But, the tower is beautiful and the courtyard is pretty neat with an interesting sculpture of a young woman being abducted, some gravestones underfoot, and some other stone reliefs/religious iconography. Probably better just to enjoy the tower and to photograph the outside than to worry about entering...

The former three-nave building contains the graves of Hvar families from the period from the 15th to the 18th century. The monastery was no longer functional at the beginning of the 19th century, a large part was demolished or rebuilt, and the church's inventory is in the churches...

Il monastero e la chiesa di San Marco sono citati per la prima volta nel 1312 e i resti odierni risalgono al XVI° e XVII° secolo. In questa chiesa, nel 1525 il domenicano Vinko Pribojević tenne il suo famoso discorso ''Sull'origine e sulle vicissitudini degli Slavi''. Nell'ex chiesa a tre navate si trovano le tombe delle famiglie di Hvar dal XVº fino al XVIII° secolo e poi venne utilizzata anche per le riunioni del Gran consiglio. Il monastero fu soppresso nel 1807 durante l'amministrazione francese. L'abside della chiesa fu convertita in una cappella nella prima metà del...