Church of St Chrysogonus

On arrival to Zadar on 23 June, we were too early to check in. Hence we left our luggage at the hotel and set off to explore Zadar.

The Church of St. Chrysogonus was around the corner of our hotel.  A Roman Catholic church located in Zadar, Croatia, the chruch was named after Saint Chrysogonus, the patron saint of the city.

The Romanesque church was consecrated by Lampridius, Archbishop of Zadar, in 1175. It was built at the site of a Roman emporium, replacing the Church of Saint Anthony the Hermit and is the only remaining part of a large medieval Benedictine abbey.

It is said that in 1387, Elizabeth of Bosnia, the murdered queen dowager of Hungary and Dalmatia, was secretly buried in the church, where her body remained for three years until being moved to the Székesfehérvár Basilica. The construction of a bell tower began in 1485, but was abandoned in 1546 and never finished.