The Middle Street
The Middle Street was the main and the largest street in the town, that is, a decumanus maximus. It represented a dynamic centre of the town equipped with merchant and other public facilities since the Antiquity. Manor houses built in the second half of the 15th century, frequently reconstructed inherited older buildings and complexes, dominate the Middle Street. The Marinellis, Spalatin and Benedeti palaces towering over other buildings on the picturesque...
Upper Street
Srednja and Gornja streets have been competing for primacy for centuries. Owing to the sacral buildings erected in it, Gornja ulica, became more significant in the 4th century when Christianity became the established religion, and the situation remained the same until the 19th c. Such buildings were erected at the sites of important public and cultural Roman monuments significant in the life of the ancient town. Some researchers believe that Gornja ulica...
Lower Street
Donja ulica was stretching next to the emporion, the trading centre of the town and was provided with the port-related facilities replaced by the residential ones since the Middle Ages. Donja ulica was built owing to the expansion of the warehouse towards the seafront in the 14th and 15th century on the site of the former shoreline. The sea embankment was turned into the storage space for the enlarged Town of Rab.The basement rooms of the Marinellis Palace...
Streets
The three beating hearts of the Town of Rab
Three longitudinal streets, the names of which speak for themselves: Gornja, Srednja and Donja (the upper, middle and lower street), stretch across the entire peninsula, adjusting to its cross-section. The streets descend towards the steep cliffs in the south with a view of the open sea to the low town port in the north. They are connected by a series of transverse staircases with one of them having the shape of a ramp, which are called rugae in medieval documents. On the half of the peninsula there is a transverse street with no staicase, connecting Srednja (Upper) and Donja (Lower) streets, bearing a descriptive name of 'barrier-free street' (Cro. Local: liša ulica).
