Church and Monastery of St Francis
The Church and the Monastery of St Francis in Zadar, from 1283, is the oldest Dalmatian church built in Gothic style. In 1358 the Zadar Peace Treaty was signed between the Republic of Venice and the Hungarian-Croatian king Louis I in its Sacristy.
The Church of St Francis represents a type of a Gothic monastic church, characterized by its single-nave space with an elevated Sanctuary. In the Treasury next to the famous Sacristy there is an art collection with a big number of artefacts on display, the most valuable of which is the painted wooden Crucifix from the 12th century. In the south of the Church there is a Renaissance cloister that was built in 1556 together with a rich Library.
The Monastery of St. Francis, in whose sacristy the famous Zadar Peace Treaty was signed in 1358, has been awarded the European Heritage Label together with seven sites from six European countries in a joint transnational application of the "Places of Peace" network.
The European heritage label is an initiative of the European Commission implemented within the framework of the Creative Europe programme, and is awarded to sites in the European Union with a strong symbolic European value, which highlight the common history of Europe, the construction of the European Union, European values and human rights on which the European integration process is based.
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