The coastal area between Trogir and Split,beneath the Kozjak mountains, Is known as the cradle of Croatian statehood,as this where Croatian kings kept their court.Seven medieval aristocrat castles erected at the time on the gentle shores of the Bay of Kastel,in later centuries became the centres of the present-day seven Kastels and the Kastel Riviera.On the shores covered in Spanish broom and agave,villas emerged by the sea,and are the still apart of th urban entity of the seven merged towns,and of the hundred year old tourism tradition with the rich cultural heritage merged into a single picture of history.