In Zadar has nurtured the traditional liqueur quality and production. Already in the early 16th pharmacists century Dominican monastery in Zadar have made ​​remarkable liquor "Rosoglio" from a small Dalmatian bitter cherry-marasca that just grows best near Zadar. The tradition continued in the Zadar liqueur factory and now the proven recipe produces Maraschino of Zadar, known throughout the world - the liquor in which the taste and smell of condensed secret strange and undeniable healing cherry marasca that his Asian homeland just replaced the Dalmatian karst and the "red soil" full sun and wind.

Demand for him increased particularly in the 17th and 18 century when many distilleries are springing up, we find it in courts of many prominent personalities, and was particularly popular in the English court. King George IV sent his ships hundreds of crates of Maraschino for the royal palace in London and the governors of Malta and Corfu. 1871st year from the port of Zadar Maraschino ships sailed for Queen Victoria. 1887. Prince of Galles later King George V in society Duca of Edinburgh visited Zadar liqueur factory and ordered that when a larger amount of liquor.

Maraschino is Napoleon Bonaparte and his generals (Marshal Marmontea example), and it was inevitable and in Russian, French, Viennese and Italian courts.
Maraschino is served as dessert and liquor in addition to ice cream, fruit salads, etc. plaited bottle maraschino declared Croatian souvenir and it is a keepsake that can be taken from Zadar.