Kaštela

Kaštela () is a town and a suburb of Split in Dalmatia, Croatia. The town is an agglomeration of seven individual settlements which are administered as a single municipality, with populations individually ranging from 3,000 to 7,000 residents. The town is located northwest of Split proper, west of Solin and east of Trogir, on the central Dalmatian coast. With a total population of 37,794 census, it is the 14th largest town in the country.

==History== In the area of today's Kaštela, in the Early Iron Age – from the 9th to the 5th century BC. – the first Illyrian settlements (fortresses) were established in the area of Biranj, Luko and Ostrožine. Traces of life in the Kaštela area can be found as early as prehistoric times, as evidenced by the sources from Mujina cave, which is located in a mountainous area above Plano on the way to Prgomet. Prehistoric man settled in this area and then he found enough fertile soil and drinking water here. From the 1st century BC they were under Roman Empire rule, when a large number of summer houses (villae rusticae) were built for the needs of Roman veterans; the remains of the Siculi settlement near Resnik have been preserved from that period. A large number of buildings date from the early Christian and early Croatian periods; the remains of churches and buildings of early Croatian rulers have been found at the sites of Bijaći, Putalj, Kozice, Lažane, Ostrog and Sv. Petar od Klobučac.