THE PALACE
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 eat intersecting roads remain even unto this day. "lie mausoleum was converted into a Christian hurch and became the shrine of the patron saint, iocletian’s sarcophagus probably disappeared then, long with much else that was pagan. S. Doimo Dujam) was brought from Salona and installed s patron. The Bishop became Archbishop and rimate of Dalmatia, a title now borne by the atriarch of Venice.
  Spalato, like all the other sea-coast towns of almatia, felt the influence of Venice under the rseoli at the end of the tenth and opening of he eleventh centuries. In 1244 the Hungarians ptured Klissa, the key to the pass over the ountains eastward, which commands the plain f Salona and reaches Spalato itself. Then the yranny of the Counts of Bribir drove the Spalatini nd most of the Dalmatians into the arms of enice, and the city passed definitely under the ion of S. Marco in 1420. It is now the capital of almatia in the new kingdom of Jugoslavia.
   1	o return to the palace. “ It is the vastest and
 oblest dwelling that ever rose at the bidding of a
 lngle man,” says Freeman. Of a single man, may
 e> but both the Escurial and Versailles might give
 s pause over this estimate; and yet undoubtedly
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