A lovely unusual historical tour. Yelena was very friendly and knowledgeable about Zadar. There was just the two of us on the tour but we had a fab time. Highly recommend this tour.
About Activity
What's Included
Includes
- Maraschino, traditional liquor
- Visit to the locations
- Tour Assistant
- VR Glasses: OculusGo All-in-One VR Headset
Excludes
Departure & Return
Departure Point
- Meeting point: in Zadar old town, right next to the Sea Gate/Porta Marina - Souvenir shop in red building (address: Poljana pape Aleksandra III 7, Zadar 23 000). If you are arriving by car, parking lot is right next to the Gate at Liburnska obala.
Return
- We will end this tour on sea promenade and Sea organ.
Itinerary
VR tour will take you to the church of St. Krševan - eng. Chrysogonus. It was male Benedictine's monastery church built in 1175. This is one of the most beautiful Romanesque churches you will ever see, well preserved on the outside. It is closed for public and often forgotten by tourists, but you will have the unique opportunity to see monastery courtyard and to visit the interior using VR glasses.
You will see interior of the church of St. Simeon and the biggest city's treasure - silver pleated Ghotic chest for the relics of St. Simeon, favorite patron saint to this day.
Here you will learn more about construction of the Roman gates that were entrance into the antique city of Zadar. Afterwards, you will see where was the entrance to the Medieval city of Zadar and finally, you will see the construction of the Venetian walls.
First you will visit the remains of the Roman Forum within Zadar's old town. It was the biggest Forum built in Croatia, built from 1st until 3rd century and now it is visable only as ruins. With VR glasses you will see the construction of the Forum looking from the air, from hot-air balloon while an audio guide will introduce you to the intreresting facts about it. Besides that, you will enter the Forum and you will be standing in the very center of it, surrounded by recreated buildings and statues. At the end you will be standing in front of the temple dedicated to Jupiter, Juno and Minerva dating from the 1st century BC. You will hear the story about ancient religious rituals. When the VR visual ends, you will take off the VR glasses and you will be amazed to learn that some parts of the construction of the Forum are still being present at their original place even after 2000 years of history.
This is another visual of the bombing in WW II and you will be looking at Zadar's old town as if you are standing at the top of the St. Anastasia's bell tower. You will see air attack and bombing of the city. There will be buildings burning and crashing due to airplanes dropping bombs. At the end you will see a map showing heavily damaged areas of the city, that do not exist anymore.
St. Anastasia's cathedral was built in the 12th and 13th century and it is the largest cathedral in Dalmatia region. St. Anastasia is one of the saint protectors of the city and her relics lay inside the cathedral. With our VR glasses you will be able to visit the cathedral, hear the story of st. Anastasia and take a look inside the baptistery and sacristy, places that are closed for public.
You will visit the location of the former city market where people used to sell fish, vegetables, fruits and other products. Today's open city market lies at the opposite side of the city because former city market was destroyed during the bombing in WW II. People usually do not know that Zadar was heavily damaged in those bombings and with VR glasses you will be able to see residential buildings and a post office that doesn't exist anymore. Furthermore, you will witness aeroplanes dropping bombs on the city.
At Zadar's sea promenade you will visit Greeting to the Sun and Sea Organ, built in 2005. With VR glases you will see how that location looked back in time, in 13th century to be more precise. Once again, you will be standing in the hot-air-balloon looking at the Crusaders attacking Zadar from the sea and you will hear the background story of Crusaders attacking Zadar, which was a Catholic city.
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Reviews
Comic book CGI (Lego land) and bizarre commentary on strongly accented English. Old outdated glitchy headsets with incomplete tour video.
Better than anticipated! We like walking tours to get familiar with the area, learn historical details- this tour went above and beyond! Walking streets that were built more than 2 thousand years ago was accompanied with historical perspective, interesting stories and more! Virtual reality element allows to explore otherwise unacceptable buildings, peek at architectual details, let's you look at the area from above, understand the transformations though centuries of history. Wish we had our teens with us- they would have loved the VR tour as well!
Great experience, completely new and unique way to do a tour of the ancient city! Love it and would definitely recommend!
A new way to do a tour of the city! We had never tried VR before, and the guide made it easy to understand how to use the headsets. She was also great at telling us new information whilst we walked from location to location. You only put the headsets on whilst sitting at a venue, so don't worry about walking around or bumping into things! As someone who doesn't know a lot about history, I would never have been able to envision how the Roman Forum in Zadar once looked if I had not done this tour. Now that I have, I can appreciate the ruins for what they once were! I fully recommend - even for just adult groups, we were aged 23-57 and everyone loved it.
What are unique and fun tour! The owner, Veronika, is obviously passionate about all the great material she and her husband have put together for this tour. You get to see the actual spots but then you get to see them during various time periods through the VR glasses, in 3-D surround as if you are really there. And you also get to “see” places that are not open to the public. So much more fun than the average walking tour. And great for kids too. Everything is clean and sanitary. They give you pads that line the goggles that are fresh and clean. They have many different languages available. I learned a lot!
A novel way to understand how parts of the town developed over the years and centuries. The guide was very in tune with the VR devices if we misinterpreted her instructions so avoiding any unnecessary breaks.
Because we were only the two of us participating the tour it felt like a private one. The guide was friendly and told us much more about the city than just the voice from the tape. Two hours went fast. Quality of the vr was good. Only minus was that you can hear voice from others glases ... so recommend to stand a littlebit outside of the group.
Wonderful tour guide. The lady is so kind and knowledgeable. Creative, exciting and graphically beautifully presented history in VR. Responsive and organized manager when we were booking.
Super nice and friendly tour guide. Right person to get local tips and information about Zadar's history from. But the VR experience was extremely basic. At some locations you simply get a panoramic picture of the surrounding, which you could definitely sight better without VR. And the simulations reminded me of the computer games back in the beginning of 21th century. The Simulation quality could be improved for sure.
This was a really interesting experience. The detail was a bit thin at some of the locations compared to others and I was initially thrown a bit by looking down on things with no apparent floor beneath my feet, but I really enjoyed it!
Wow! Never expected the tour to be so much fun. The goggles were really cool. We were able to see things that were not open to the public (areas in churches or churches that were no longer open to the public). Our tour guide, Jelena was fantastic. A highly educated young lady who knew her history and enhanced what we viewed through the goggles and told a story. We are a mature couple and found it interesting but I think young people, teenagers would really embrace it, having more VR experience then us. Highly recommended, something different and original.
Great agency, I recommend to anyone who is looking for good fun! I really liked Zadar's history through a virtual walk..
Cool and innvativ...never seen something like this. You can see places and things, wich you normally can't reach... Thanks a lot-Magic Croatia-!
Unique experience – recommended for everyone First time meeting with vr experience and definitely loved it. This is not just ordinary walking tour, the use of the VR headsets was so cool and I felt like I traveled in time to see different historical events and then visually compared the past with the present. Would recommend it to anyone who wants to do a guided tour in Zadar!
We enjoyed exploring the city with VR glasses. Seeing the sights in person and then putting on the VR glasses to see how Zadar looked 2000 years ago was amazing experience. Thumbs up!
Very friendly, very good guide speaking very good English. Visit the historic heart with VR glasses. Very good knowledge of the history of the city and the country. Small negative: the VR software is starting to date.
A new and fun experience for me who have never before tried VR at all. Committed and knowledgeable guide, we got answers to all our "tourist" questions. Enough stops. Culturally interesting. Very affordable experience. Easy to book, highly recommended.
La guide était très attentionnée et prenait le temps de nous expliquer le fonctionnement de l’appareil et nous donnait + d’infos à chacun des sites.
The city has a rich history. Through the vr glasses you experience and see the city with different eyes. It's a fun activity.
This gives a good idea of the evolution of the city and some aspects of its history in addition to the explanations of the guide. VR representation is a bit basic but has the merit of existing. What to do for a quick overview of Zadar’s old town
Exciting guided tour of Zadar. During stops you could watch clips in the VR glasses. Very friendly and competent guide. She knew the answer to all the questions.
Sjajno, iskustvo! Zabavno i poučno!! Nisam probala nista ovakvo, zaista je lako koristiti VR naočale, asistentica je bila super!! Preporuka!
Barz moderne i zabavne nam bulo na virtualnej turi prez historiju Zadra. U agenciji osoblje bulo barz usluzne, nasa asistentica bula ugodna i zanimljiva. Ja mam ljem krasni slova za povesc i preporucujem sicikima da probuju.
Na totu turu zme se odlučili preto že zme sceli opatric jak Zadar daraz vipatral, a nje da to mušime zadumovac. Barz zme še krasnje osecali prez calu turu kotra bula zanimljiva, poučna i nigda zme take daco skorej nje probovali. Historija i moderni okuljari ukazali nam že tota nahoda bula pravi izbor za nas bo teraz mame iskustvo htore nas odusevelo.
It was really cool to experience the story of Zadar through the VR glasses. For us it was a new experience and the children were thrilled with the planes flying overhead and dropping bombs on the city. We would definitely recommend it:)
Despite a small delay we were waiting for (parking chaos). Our guide was well prepared, very friendly and took enough time for each and every one of us, answered questions and gave us Insider tips for proper holidays with on the way. Price/performance top Languages top Always happy
Poučno, zanimljivo i zabavno. Dobitna kombinacija. Doći u Zadar, a ne pogledati Virtual Reality bi bio veliki propust.. hvala vam..
Very well everything we would have liked guide in Spanish, but everything went well despite the heat, the guide tried hard to understand us
Eine super Alternative zur normalen Stadtführung. Besonders wenn man Jugendliche dabei hat. War auch nicht zu lange. Schön wäre es gewesen wenn zwischen Mittelalter und dem Weltkrieg noch ein paar Zeitsprünge gewesen wären. Aber trotzdem toll.
Jako smo zadovoljni s vasom novom ponudom jer prikazujete Zadar iz drugog kuta tj. povijest koju bi svatko trebao pogledati i znati sto se dogadalo prije. Djeca su isto zadovoljna jer im nije bilo dosadno. Mislim da bi to trebao imati svaki grad. Jos jednom bravo.
Izvrsno iskustvo, najbolji način za saznati i razgledati grad Zadar kakav je bio kroz povjest. Djeca su oduševljena, super način za učenje.
Great to com in Zadar, and se someting old and real. Tko nije vidio neka dođe vidit kao da si u 00 god
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