News Feature

Cathedral organ worth £800,000 may be worth seeing on Croatian holiday

15 January 2010

Zadar Cathedral has taken delivery of a new organ worth €915,000 (£808,000), which could be particularly interesting to religious or musical people travelling to Croatia.

The organ is to be used at St Anastasia Cathedral in the ancient northern city, where it was played for the first time yesterday (January 14th), reports the Croatian Times.

Archbishop Ivan Predja was on hand to bless the instrument, which becomes the third-largest organ in Croatia behind ones in the cathedrals of Zagreb and Djakovo.

It was built at the Eisenbarth workshop in Passau, Germany and delivered to Zadar, the newspaper reveals.

Cash from the Croatian Catholic Mission was used to fund the purchase of the 4,026-pipe organ.

Spending a day away from a Croatian villa to visit some of the country's most beautiful churches and cathedrals could already have been on the agenda of many travellers, but the arrival of such a significant instrument may only increase interest in St Anastasia's.

According to Find Croatia, Zadar possesses a maze of charming and winding streets which date back to the first century AD.

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