The St. Jacob's Cathedral is the most valuable architectural monument built during the 15th and the 16th century in Croatia, and according to its beauty, construction techniques and style characteristics it is not only the biggest and the most valuable object of the architectural heritage of the Town of Šibenik, but it represents also a unique monument of the European sacral architecture.
The St. Jacob's Cathedral is well known for the iconographic innovations, among which the frieze of 74 head sculptures ( individual portraits of the contemporaries of Juraj Dalmatinac ) takes special place. It is considered to be the most numerous portrait gallery of the highest quality exhibited as the public monument on a sacral object in Europe.
