Arauzona

A beach bar in Vodice, built on the foundations of ancient Arauzona.

Where we mix cocktails today, nearly two thousand years ago people raised a glass rhyton — a vessel reserved for the elite.

Ancient Sources

Arauzona in Ancient Sources

Ptolemy, the Anonymous of Ravenna, the Antonine Itinerary — three ancient texts that record Arauzona as a fortified settlement on the Dalmatian coast. The name has endured two thousand years.

Ptolemy records Arauzona in his Geography as one of the fortified settlements of Roman Dalmatia.

Claudius Ptolemaeus, 2nd century AD

Archaeology

Two Thousand Years Underfoot

Arauzona is more than a name — it is a Liburnian-Roman settlement whose remains lie beneath the very ground you stand on. Graves, jewellery, glass, coins. Layer by layer, archaeologists have pieced together a life that endured here for centuries.

See you on the sand.