Kraljevski vinogradi - Royal Stone Wines
The summer heat swept Northern Dalmatia well when we arrived on the wine-growing slopes above Petrčane, not far from Zadar. Here today stand the Kraljevski vinogradi - Royal Vineyards, one of the successful wine stories of the Zadar region. Historically, the vineyard existed on the same slopes as early as 1072. Namely, the Croatian king Petar Krešimir IV in 1066 donated vineyards to the newly founded Benedictine monastery of St. Mary in Zadar, led by his sister, Abbess Čika,