Kastilac

Kastilac was a citadel of a Benedictine Monastery located by the Adriatic Sea in principal Dalmatia, and is now a agreement in Kastel Gomilica, located within the primary part of Split-Dalmatia county, Croatia. Kastilac is the handiest fort of seven castles in Kastela. King Zvonimir of Croatia of the Svetoslavic branch of the House of Trpimirovic, had donated to a Benedictine from Split ownership within the Kastela area in 1078. In the 12th century Benedictine constructed a church of St. Cosmas and Damian in the Romanesque Architecture style.

Due to the Turkish chance, Benedictine nuns finished the construction of a fortified settlement Kastilac on the islet of Gomilica in 1545. Entrance to the fortress is covered with the aid of excessive tower over the stone bridge with arches. Kastilac is 40 metres faraway from the shore, linked with the stone bridge, which changed into made only of stone. Fortress has square ground plan and within the past, at the entrance turned into placed drawbridge. After the citadel turned into finished, inside the fortification partitions arrived inhabitants of the Upper and Lower Kozica, after the Turks had devastated their former villages. In the 17th century the tower misplaced its protective feature.