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City Walls
Nearly 2 km of medieval walls encircling the Old Town.
Photo: donald judge / CC BY 2.0
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Sponza Palace
A Gothic-Renaissance palace that survived the great quake.
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Why it is worth your time
At the end of the Stradun stands the only major building to come through the catastrophic 1667 earthquake almost untouched. Once the customs house, mint and bank of the Ragusan Republic, its graceful arcaded courtyard now guards the state archives, a thousand years of documents, and a quietly devastating memorial room to the city's defenders of 1991.
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Step into the courtyard (it's free) and find the 1991 Memorial Room of the young defenders who died here.
More places in Dubrovnik
A small next-step selection from the same city.
Legendary
Activity
Mount Srđ
Ride the cable car to 412 m of Old Town and island views.
Photo: Richard Mortel / CC BY 2.0
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Lokrum Island
A cursed, peacock-roamed island ten minutes offshore.
Photo: Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA
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