The 215m-long eastern façade of the palace of Diocletian is still intact and will give you an idea of the proportions of this edifice built beginning in 298. It has retained its two square corner towers (the southeast one is intact), and the Silver Gate, bricked up in the Middle Ages and reopened and restored after the Second World War. On the opposite side of the road, the massive block of Contarini bastion was built during the Venetian period (17C) as protection against the Turks.