Zadar Transport

Arrivals split three ways. Zadar Airport at Zemunik is about nine kilometres south east of the centre and is a Ryanair base, so the flight map is wider than the city's size suggests; a shuttle bus meets flights and runs to the bus station and the Riva, taxis and transfers take twenty minutes, and the car rental desks are here rather than in town. Ferries use Gazenica, four kilometres south east, which took over from the old city quay and now handles the island services, the Ancona crossings and the cruise calls. The bus station on the eastern side of the centre carries the long-distance coaches, which remain the practical way to reach Split, Zagreb and Plitvice.

In the city itself very little of this matters, because the peninsula is closed to traffic and small enough to cross in ten minutes. City buses cover Borik, Diklo and the outer districts; parking is in the lots and streets outside the walls and is charged by zone through the season. The one piece of local transport worth using for its own sake is the barkajoli, the rowed boats that have carried passengers across the harbour mouth for centuries and still run all day for the price of a coffee, saving a twenty minute walk around.