The tragic story of the Kaštela lovers Miljenko and Dobrila, thanks to oral tradition and the novel Miljenko and Dobrila by Marko Kažotić, has lived primarily in the Kaštela, but also in a much wider area for four centuries and has become the main tourist brand of Kaštela and the face of the city. According to legend, the love between the two members of prominent families from Kaštela, Miljenko Rosani (Rušinić) and Dobrila Vitturi, was doomed from the start due to a dispute between the aforementioned families, which were once very close. After the wedding ceremony, at the very end of the wedding celebration, Dobrila's father, Count Vitturi, kills his newly married son-in-law Miljenko on the bridge of his castle, thereby condemning his own daughter to death. Not long after Miljenko, Dobrila also died of grief, and the newlyweds were buried in the church of St. John in Rušinac, and on their grave is the inscription Let the lovers rest in peace. In the paper, the historical reconstruction of the legend was carried out by means of scientific methods, of which the method of proof and the opposite method of refutation are primarily imposed, by extracting the most prominent elements of the same, which were processed by means of scientific methods in order to prove or disprove their historical veracity.