Sutilija Hillfort and Church of St Elijah, Seget Gornji

St Elijah's Hill, which also bears the name Sutilija, dominates the western edge of the Trogir Little Field (Malo polje), near Seget Gornji. From its summit there is a view over the Kaštela Bay and the Šolta Channel, and it is precisely this position that has always been decisive here.

Because of the possibility of controlling both land and sea, a large hillfort settlement arose on the hill in the Iron Age. What remains of it are the scattered dry-stone ring-shaped rampart and a suburb on the southern slope, protected by a flanking wall. On the eastern and south-eastern slopes are Roman quarries, that is, smaller pits in which traces of the extraction of stone blocks can still be seen. At the very top stands the Romanesque Church of St Elijah, after which the whole hill got its name. The layers of the site extend from the 8th century BC to the 12th century, so several historical periods can be followed in a small area. For hikers and lovers of archaeology it is an interesting spot with a view.

The site is protected as a cultural property and entered in the Register of Cultural Goods of the Republic of Croatia under the code Z-3256.

Photo: Argo Navis, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
Data: Register of Cultural Goods of the Republic of Croatia (Ministry of Culture and Media), Open Licence; coordinates: Wikidata (CC0).