Church of Our Lady of the Snows (Zvirača), Seget Donji

The church of Our Lady of the Snows stands at the Zvirače site in the Trogir Little Field, at a crossroads of ancient paths, not far from Seget Donji. It is located in Split-Dalmatia County, and is interesting for its combination of medieval forms and Baroque frescoes.

It was built in the 14th century in the Romanesque-Gothic style, and in the 17th century it acquired a Baroque appearance. It is single-nave, with a semicircular apse, and extends in an east-west direction. On the west façade are entrance doors with plain stone jambs and a lintel with a cross of Romanesque-Gothic form. Above it is a stone lunette of Romanesque shape, in the form of a segmental arch. At the beginning of the 17th century a Baroque fresco of the Crucifixion on Golgotha above the chancel arch was made, along with frescoes depicting the Evangelists on both sides of the pointed vault.

The church is a protected cultural good, entered in the Register of Cultural Goods of the Republic of Croatia under the code Z-4903.

Photo: KO TROGIR, CC BY-SA 3.0 hr, Wikimedia Commons.
Data: Register of Cultural Goods of the Republic of Croatia (Ministry of Culture and Media), Open Licence; coordinates: DGU (centre of the settlement).