Last few decades there have been happening changes related to protection of cultural heritage. According to that awareness about importance of cultural heritage, the need for its preservation and protection take the global scale. Considering limited cultural resources and their tendency to decay there is a need for a sustainable development of cultural heritage, limiting the use of cultural resources is such a way to enable a degree of development that does not endanger the value of the resource. This thesis deals with the determination of cultural importance in tourism development of the city of Kaštela with the aim of recognizing the city as cultural and tourist attractive destination. That can be achieved by establishing cooperation between local authorities, tourism companies and communities, by quality promotion and attracting potential tourists coming out of the season and not focusing on increasing the number of visitors. Conclusion is that the city of Kaštela has an abundance of valuable cultural resources which potentials have not been sufficiently exploited and that there is a need to work on the revival of cultural heritage and creating cultural-tourist products that would highlight the destination on the tourist market and improve the image of the entire destination.