George Bernard Shaw was enchanted by this beautiful city, about which he said “those who seek paradise on Earth should come to Dubrovnik”, as well as, famously, describing it as “the pearl of the Adriatic”. It really is a stunning city with an amazing Old Town, which became a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1979.
The main street, while getting the first impressions of one of the Mediterraneans most beautiful cities. The astonishing city of stone is surrounded with 1,940 m long stone walls. A tour of the worlds second most frequented open-air museum will definitely take your breath away.
The fantastic views will inspire you to take some photographs, and the sights that you will capture will continue to amaze you over and over again. Visit the museums of Dubrovnik and find out where the rector of the glorious Dubrovnik Republic used to live, where grain was stored, which sailing ships formed parts of the powerful Dubrovnik Republic fleet travelling around the world, making Dubrovnik famous.
Taste some of the delicious Mediterranean specialities at the taverns and restaurants of the Old City and complete the treat with a cup of coffee in Stradun.
Buy some of the typical Dubrovnik souvenirs (delicacies, traditional filigree jewellery, a bronze statuette of St Blaise, Konavle embroidery…) to always remind you of the day when you began to discover Dubrovnik and inevitably fell in love with it forever, wishing to come back…
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The city of Dubrovnik is a living monument ...
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The value of Dubrovnik was recognised by UNESCO already thirty years ago, while the Festival of St Blaise joined the List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in October 2009. The Dubrovnik Republic, which presents the golden period of the Dubrovnik history, perfectly regulated the City and its life through its statute and other historic documents.
The Republic did not erect monuments to its contemporaries. The seaman Miho Pracat is the only person who deserved this great honour, while the figure which one sees most often on the monuments of Dubrovnik is St Blaise holding a model of the City in his hand…
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The sacral objects of Dubrovnik hide a real treasure of the historic architectural and artistic heritage.
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Leaving its mark on the Republics history, religion offered shelter and solace in the times of trouble and became a symbol of the stone citys survival.
A visit to huge churches, which revealed the power and importance of religion in the lives of people at the time, the small secluded chapels in which the sufferings, secrets and joys were shared with the Almighty, and one of Europes oldest synagogues takes us back into the past, but also connects us with the present day, because church service is organised in the majority of the Dubrovnik sacral objects.
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With its exquisite architecture, rich heritage and history preserved in every stone...
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Dubrovnik is both a museum city and a city with a large number of museums.
Housing the materials from prehistoric artefacts to the recent documents from the not so remote time of the Croatian War of Independence in the 1990s, the Dubrovnik Museums -conceptualised as specialised institutions - offer information on all segments of the public, private, trade, seafaring and every-day life of Dubrovnik.
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