Dubrovnik travel guide

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   Walls of Dubrovnik

   Nearly two kilometres of wall up to twenty-five metres high and six thick, built and thickened between the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries, and never breached. The circuit walk takes about an hour and a half and is the single thing every visitor to Dubrovnik does.

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   Rector's Palace, Dubrovnik

   The seat of the rector of the Republic of Ragusa, who was elected for one month at a time and, during that month, could not leave the building except on state business — a constitution designed to make tyranny administratively impossible.

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   Dubrovnik Cathedral

   A baroque cathedral built after the earthquake of 1667 destroyed its Romanesque predecessor, which tradition says Richard the Lionheart paid for after being shipwrecked nearby. Its treasury holds the gold reliquary containing the skull of St Blaise, the city's patron.

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   Sponza Palace

   A palace of 1522 that served as the customs house and mint of the republic — the name comes from the word for customs. It now holds the state archive and a memorial room to the two hundred people killed defending the city between 1991 and 1995.

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   Franciscan Church and Monastery

   A Franciscan complex on the main street whose pharmacy, opened in 1317, is among the oldest still operating in Europe — it has never closed and still sells prescriptions. The cloister of double columns survived the 1667 earthquake.

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   Lovrijenac

   A fortress on a 37-metre rock outside the western wall, thrown up in three months, the chronicles say, to forestall a Venetian fort on the same spot. The inscription over its gate declares that freedom is not sold for all the gold; Hamlet is staged on its terraces each summer.

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   St. Saviour Church

   A small votive church on the Stradun, built between 1520 and 1528 in thanks after an earthquake spared the city. The great quake of 1667 left it standing while all around it fell, so its Renaissance front is one of the few in Dubrovnik that predates the disaster.

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   Dubrovnik Synagogue

   A synagogue on the second floor of a house in a narrow lane, in use since the fifteenth century and the oldest Sephardi synagogue still functioning anywhere. Ragusa admitted Jews expelled from Spain, on condition they lived in this one street.

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   St Blaise's Church

   A baroque church of 1715 on the Stradun, dedicated to the patron saint of the city and of the old Republic of Ragusa. Its silver statue of St Blaise holds a model of Dubrovnik as it stood before the earthquake of 1667, the only likeness of the medieval city to survive.

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    Gruž

    A district two kilometres northwest of the old city holding the working port, the main market and the bus station — where fifteen thousand people actually live while the walled town fills with cruise passengers.

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   Tvrdoš Monastery

   A Serbian Orthodox monastery near Trebinje in Herzegovina, established around 1500 on Roman foundations and known for its wine, which the monks still make. It is an hour inland from Dubrovnik across the border.

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   Trsteno Arboretum

   Arboretum near Dubrovnik laid out from 1494 around a summer villa, the oldest of its kind in the region. Two plane trees at its gate are over five hundred years old.

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   Saint Ignatius Church

   The Jesuit church of the republic, finished in 1725, approached by a broad stair modelled on the Spanish Steps in Rome — which had themselves just been built. The Jesuit college beside it educated the republic's diplomats.

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   Clock tower

   A bell tower of thirty-one metres at the end of the main street, rebuilt in 1929 after the medieval one began to lean. Two bronze figures called the greenies strike the hour on the bell, as their predecessors did from 1478.

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   Holy Annunciation Orthodox church

   Serbian Orthodox church in Dubrovnik, consecrated in 1877 when the community was first allowed a church inside the walls. It holds a collection of icons from Crete and the Bay of Kotor.

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   Lapad

   A district on the peninsula west of Dubrovnik. Pine woods and shingle beaches run along it, which is where people walk out from the old town to swim; from the hill at the end of the peninsula the old town and Lokrum are visible together.

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