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GREETING TO THE SUN - ZADAR, CROATIA

The Greeting to the Sun
At the very end of the Zadar peninsula, next to the famous Sea Organ, shines the Greeting to the Sun made by the same architect Nikola Bašić. The Greeting to the Sun installation, as a model of the solar system with its appertaining planets, is connected to the Sea Organs whose sound is transposed into a show of light that starts performing on the Zadar waterfront after sunset.  

The Greeting to the Sun consists of three hundred multi-layered glass plates placed on the same level with the stone-paved waterfront in the shape of a 22-meter diameter circle. Under the glass conduction plates there are photo-voltage solar modules through which symbolic communication with nature is made, with the aim to communicate with light, just like the Sea Organs do with sound.  

Simultaneously with the „most beautiful sunset in the world" the lighting elements installed in a circle turn on, and, following a particularly programmed scenario, they produce a marvelous, exceptionally impressive show of light in the rhythm of the waves and the sounds of the Sea organs.

The Greeting to the Sun installation, as a model of the solar system - the biggest circle represents the Sun and smaller circles, distributed along Zadar’s  seafront according to their distance from the Sun, represent planets of our Solar System.

Neptun - Click to enlarge

The names and numbers carved on the ring surrounding the installation on the waterfront – Greeting to the Sun - are part of the St.Grisogonus Calendar, developed in Zadar and found in 1964 in the Bodleian Library in Oxford. It dates from 1292 or 1293, and is among the oldest of such documents in the world, and possibly the first to have astronomy data written in Arabic numbers. Besides the calendar with the feast days and names of saints, it also has the astronomy part which shows the sun efemeride, the coordinates of the heavenly bodies, their angle distances from determined immovable flat surfaces, straight lines or points.