Dubrovnik is a treasury and a museum, the Pearl of the Adriatic sea
Dubrovnik has managed to uphold until the present day all its historical buildings and their beauty – a number of Baroque, Renaissance and Romanesque churches and palaces.
City walls with forts
The city walls are one of the largest fortification monuments in Europe and an example of the development of fortification architecture. The construction of the first fortifications began as early as in the 8th century, but itwas most intensive from the mid-15th to the late 16 th century. The great earthquake of 1667 did not cause major damage. The walls girdle the city in the form of an irregular polygon, with the Minčeta tower on the highest, northwest corner of the city and the St. John’s Fortresson the marine, south-east side. Strong fortress like Lawrence Fortressat Pile andRevelinFortress at Ploče, although separated from the walls, belong to the defence system. The wall is 22 m highin some places. The thickness of the wall on the mainland side is 4-6 m, and on the sea 1,5-3 m. On the land side, in front of the wall, there is a rampart with 10 semi-circular bastions, and in front of them,in the past,there was a ditch. The main wall has 14 foursquare towers, two round towers, two angular fortifications and 4 bastions. There are three entrances to the city walls: on Stradun by the Pile Gate, at the St. John’s Fortressand at the St. Luka’s Fortress.
Big Onofrio’s fountain
The prosperity of the City of Dubrovnik had always been based on maritime trade. In the Middle Ages, under the name of Republic of Ragusa, it became the only city-state on the east coast of the Adriatic Sea that could compete with the Republic of Venice. Thanks to each richness and diplomacy, the city reached an incredible degree of development, especially during the 15th and 16th century. Dubrovnik was one of the centres of the development of the Croatian language and literature and many significant Croatian poets, playwrights, painters, mathematicians, physicists and other scholars lived and worked here.
Stradun is the main shopping area most beautiful street in Dubrovnik
