The medieval Mediterranean garden of St. Lawrence's Monastery

The medieval Mediterranean garden of St. Lawrence's Monastery was renovated and opened in 2007, after being forgotten for almost 100 years. The garden is a very rare sight, as it represents the only monastery garden in Croatia that follows the famous medieval scheme: cross paths with a little fountain in the middle and simple ground floor planning, enclosed by barberry and beautiful old-fashioned redolent roses. Medicinal and season herbs are planted in the four fields and a special place belongs to the artistic collection of thyme, with beautiful red, violet, grey, light green and dark green leaf colours. The capers planted in the wall holes are also an important sight of the garden, as a local legend says they were brought in Šibenik by famous constructor Juraj Dalmatinac.

Robert Visiani Park

The Šibenik park, which is also called a "đardin" (garden), was named after Roberto de Visiani, an esteemed Croatian botanist, poet, philosopher and a pioneer of modern botany in Italy, as well as a restorer of the oldest European botanical garden in Padua, where he taught at the then renowned University of Padua.

Visiani was a member of more than 50 scientific societies, academies, literary associations and expert committees. In his work "Flora Dalmatica", Visiani analysed over 2200 plant species and described 60 species and 5 new genera of plants for the first time. In 1847, he discovered the endemic plant Dalmatian rockbell in the vicinity of Klis, while the plants Satureja visianni and Asperula visianni were named in his honour. He died in Padua in 1878 and was buried in his hometown of Šibenik.

The park has an area of 4163 m² and is divided into three parts: the upper, central and lower, with a height difference of 9.4 m separating the upper and lower parts. The idea of constructing the park was borne out of the procedure to define the layout of the new city centre in 1890. The park was completed on 31 May 1896 with the erection of the monument dedicated to Nikola Tommaseo, which was replaced by a monument to King Peter Krešimir IV of Croatia.