Kaštel Lukšić - The central kaštel
"The central kaštel of the series of magical number seven of seven kaštels, luxurious in its renaissance beauty, deeply sunk in green, hundred-year old parks and avenues, remembers a romantic legend about tragic love of Dobrila and Miljenko. The cherry trees stretch towards the mountain of Kozjak, while pine and tamarisk trees make shade on Lukšić beaches."
Kaštel Lukšić was built at the end of the fifteenth century by the Vitturi family from Trogir. It is a huge, fortified palace built in the Renaissance style once used as summer home. It is composed of a two storey residential building to the east, and defence towers to the north. There is a court yard in the middle and to the south a two-floor gallery. A settlement developed around this town and was fortified with a defence wall. There are many architecturally important building in the town. An exceptional one is the Gothic-Renaissance parish church of Gospino Uznesenje, built in 1515. The new parish church has the original sarcophagus of the blessed Arnir that serves as an altar. It is one of the most famous works of the Croatian sculptor, Juraj Dalmatinac. Constructed in 1445., it was moved from the Split Benedictine convent to its present day location at the end of the nineteenth century.
Kaštel Rušinac was built in the western part of Kaštel Lukšić by a Trogirian nobleman Mihovil Rosan. Until the seventeenth century it was the centre of a separate, smaller village. The church of St. John the Baptist (sv. Ivan Krstitelj) stands next to the town. It is a burial spot of the lovers Miljenko and Dobrila who suffered a tragic destiny.
The church of St. Lovro (sv. Lovro) was built on the Balvan cliff on the ridge of Kozjak. The church and the ruins of a fort are the only remains of once important Medieval settlement of Ostrog.
On the top of Kozjak are Biranj and remains of a prehistoric building. They are approximately 600 meters long. There is a Medieval pilgrimage church of St. John Biranj (sv. Ivan Biranj) on this location as well. The inscription of the church reads that it was renovated in fifteenth century.