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Things to do in Dubrovnik
Walls, forts, gardens and the food streets — the sights worth your time, with real hours and honest entry prices.
Historic Sites
Dubrovnik City Walls
Walk a 1.9 km ring of ramparts wrapped around a stone city that has held its shape for 700 years.
€35Details
Historic Sites
Fort Lovrijenac
A 37 m sea cliff crowned by the fortress the Ragusans built to keep the Venetians out - carved with the words 'Freedom is not sold for all the gold in the world'.
€15Details
Historic Sites
Rector's Palace
The seat of the Ragusan Republic's rotating one-month rulers, now the city's Cultural History Museum.
€15Details
Historic Sites
Sponza Palace
The 16th-century customs house and mint that survived every earthquake - and now houses the state archive and a memorial to the defenders of 1991.
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Historic Sites
Fort Minčeta
The mighty round tower at the top of the walls - the city's highest point and, in another life, Game of Thrones' House of the Undying.
€35Details
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Fort Bokar
A cylindrical fortress cantilevered off the sea wall, guarding the western approach to Pile Gate since 1461.
€35Details
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Fort Revelin
The independent trapezoidal fortress east of the Old Town, built in a panic against the Venetians and now home to a stone-vaulted nightclub.
€10Details
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Fort Imperial (Mount Srđ)
Napoleon's mountaintop fortress, 412 m above the city, holding both the best view in Dalmatia and the Museum of Croatian War of Independence.
€7Details
Historic Sites
Franciscan Monastery
Home to Europe's third-oldest working pharmacy (1317), a serene Romanesque cloister, and a library that survived every disaster the city ever had.
€6Details
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Dominican Monastery
A fortified 14th-century monastery pressed against the walls, guarding one of the finest small collections of Renaissance painting on the Adriatic.
€4Details
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Ston Walls
Five and a half kilometres of medieval walls climbing the hills between Ston and Mali Ston - the 'European Great Wall of China'.
€10Details
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Trsteno Arboretum
The oldest arboretum in this part of Europe - a 500-year-old Renaissance garden by the sea, and King's Landing's palace grounds in Game of Thrones.
€7Details
Spiritual Sites
Cathedral of the Assumption
The Baroque cathedral rebuilt after 1667 - whose treasury holds a gold reliquary said to contain the skull of St. Blaise.
FreeDetails
Natural Parks
Lokrum Island Nature Reserve
A 72-hectare car-free island of pines, peacocks, an abandoned monastery and Game of Thrones' Iron Throne - all a 15-minute boat ride offshore.
€27 park feeDetails
Beaches Waterfronts
Banje Beach
The pebble beach directly below the Old Town walls - postcard swimming with the ramparts as backdrop.
FreeDetails
Beaches Waterfronts
Sveti Jakov Beach
A hidden pebble cove reached by 160 steps, where locals swim looking back at the Old Town in the distance.
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Street Markets
Gundulić Square Market
The Old Town's daily morning market - lavender, candied almonds, orange rakija, and everything the surrounding gardens grew that week.
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Restaurants
Nautika Restaurant
The special-occasion restaurant of Dubrovnik - two terraces above the sea between Lovrijenac and Bokar, seafood at its best.
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Restaurants
Proto Fish Restaurant
Dubrovnik's oldest fish restaurant, in the same stone-arched cellar since 1886.
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Historic Quarters
Cavtat Old Town Waterfront
The pre-Roman town on the peninsula 20 km south, where locals go when Dubrovnik gets too much.
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Scenic Routes
Lapad Bay Promenade
The car-free pedestrian street that ends at a swimming beach - Dubrovnik's evening stroll of choice.
FreeDetails
Street Markets
Gruž Market
The real market where locals shop - fish landed that morning, produce from the surrounding villages, and prices half of the Old Town's.
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Natural Parks
Mljet National Park
Two saltwater lakes, a 12th-century Benedictine monastery on an islet, and the greenest island in the Adriatic - a full-day escape from the city.
€25 park feeDetails
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