The town and the port are situated on a small peninsula connected with a narrow strip of land with the rest of the island and the surrounding area covered with pine forest. At the beginning of the 16th century the inhabitants lived in the old part of the town inside the city walls. The quay, in its present form, was finished in the second part of the 19th century. By the loggia from 1548 is a neo-baroque staircase with two obelisks.

In the centre of the square is the Gothic cathedral of Saint Marko, the building of which started at the beginning of 15th century, and was finished by the end of the same century with a Renaissance dome constructed by Marko Andrijic. The cathedral has artistic objects of the local stone-mason. In 1525 a votive chapel of Saint Roko was added.

Across the cathedral is the palace Arneri with a nice Renaissance garden, and beside it the palace Gabrielis in which the city museum is located. In front of the palace is a stone plateau for the city flag (from 1515). Beside the cathedral is the bishop's palace with a rich treasury (liturgical equipment, clothes, paintings etc.).   On the small square is the city hall (ground floor is from 1520) which used to be connected with the Duke's palace built in the 14th century. In 1499 the fortress Mali Ravelin acquired its present form.

The portal Kopnena vrata leeds from the old part through the fortress Mali Ravelin to the bridge, where the path on what used to be a city wall begins. By that way the church of all Saints (Svih svetih) can be reached. On the northern top is a semi-circular tower Tiepolo, and on the western top the tower Barbarigo. The western path leads along the coast to the Dominican monastery with the two-nave church of Saint Nikola. From the portal Kopnena vrata a path leeds to the fortress of Saint Vlaho, built by the English in 1813.