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Secret Split: Socialist Architecture & brutalism - Urban Utopia
$111.58
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Overview
Most tours in Split stop in the Roman era.
This one starts in the 20th century.
Secret Split is a walk through a part of the city most visitors never reach—neighbourhoods built after World War II, when a new vision for life, space, and society was being tested in concrete.
You’ll hear the story of Split 3, a socialist urban plan that was once a utopian experiment—and ended up featured at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
We’ll walk through a city within a city—a fully pedestrian zone, built for community, for children, for daily life.
You’ll hear about the architects who shaped it, what they believed in, and how that belief still shapes how people live here today.
This is not a nostalgic walk. It’s a real one.
You’ll see raw buildings, clean geometry, open spaces. You’ll learn why brutalism wasn’t just about concrete—it was about care.
And you might even start liking it.
This tour is for those who want to understand modern life in Split.
This one starts in the 20th century.
Secret Split is a walk through a part of the city most visitors never reach—neighbourhoods built after World War II, when a new vision for life, space, and society was being tested in concrete.
You’ll hear the story of Split 3, a socialist urban plan that was once a utopian experiment—and ended up featured at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
We’ll walk through a city within a city—a fully pedestrian zone, built for community, for children, for daily life.
You’ll hear about the architects who shaped it, what they believed in, and how that belief still shapes how people live here today.
This is not a nostalgic walk. It’s a real one.
You’ll see raw buildings, clean geometry, open spaces. You’ll learn why brutalism wasn’t just about concrete—it was about care.
And you might even start liking it.
This tour is for those who want to understand modern life in Split.
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Discovering the mystery of the urban utopia in Split
Tour guide
Language: English
Human tour guide
- Meeting local artists/activist
- Visiting the residential area of Split
- Tour with a licenced tourist guide and certified heritage interpreter
- Tips
Meeting point
You can take a bus from the only town, and it takes approx 20 min drive to our meeting point. You can message me or call me so I can meet you at the bus station when you exit the bus or somewhere that is easier for you.
Return details
You can take a bus from the only town, and it takes approx 20 min drive to our meeting point. You can message me or call me so I can meet you at the bus station when you exit the bus or somewhere that is easier for you.
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TrstenikWe will be gathering in one of the residential areas, constructed in the 1970s and was originally referred to as the 'Project of Split 3'. Nowadays, the Split 3 area has been divided into various districts and the one we will be starting our tour from is the Trstenik city district.
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Architecture of Split 3 Featured in MoMA's "Toward a Concrete Utopia" Exhibition. New York 2018. “Built in the 1970s, Split 3—an expansion of the Croatian city of Split—was one of the last large-scale urban planning schemes in Yugoslavia and one of its most ambitious and successful. It combined megastructure housing blocks with careful attention to pedestrian streets, which were conceived as a forum for urban life, and a mixture of spaces for living, work, and leisure. Providing housing for approximately fifty thousand new residents, the massive undertaking was praised internationally for its communal and public space and its integration into the existing terrain,” said MoMA
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Split-Dalmatia CountyThe project Split 3 was the answer to rapid demographic growth and although it was never fully realized, it enters the annals of urbanism and architecture of the 20th century, not only in Croatia but also in the wider world.
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SplitArt Activism at the in Split, Croatia A response to the necessity for explicit critical communication in
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Secret Split: Socialist Architecture & brutalism - Urban Utopia
$111.58
This is an experience gift voucher. The recipient will book the experience after
they redeem the gift voucher.
How it works?
01
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You choose from 10,000+ experience gifts
02
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We deliver the eVoucher or the Physical box to the recipient
03
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Recipient books the experience and creates unforgettable memories!