16 Stunning Architecture Landmarks in Dubrovnik
16 landmarks with verified facts and stories
Bokar Fortress
City Walls, 20000 Dubrovnik
Bokar Fortress is often called the oldest casemate fortress in Europe, and while architectural historians will argue about that claim until the end of time, the building's credentials are impressive.
Church of St. Blaise
Luža, Grad, Dubrovnik, 20000, Croatia
Dubrovnik's devotion to its patron saint borders on the obsessive.
Dominican Monastery
4 Svetoga Dominika, Grad, Dubrovnik, 20000, Croatia
The Republic of Ragusa didn't just tolerate its monasteries — it weaponised them.
Dubrovnik Cathedral
Kneza Damjana Jude, Grad, Dubrovnik, 20000, Croatia
According to local legend, this cathedral exists because Richard the Lionheart nearly drowned.
Dubrovnik City Walls
Ispod mira, Grad, Dubrovnik, 20000, Croatia
These walls have absorbed cannonballs, earthquake tremors, and the footsteps of roughly two million tourists a year — and they haven't budged an inch.
Ethnographic Museum (Rupe Granary)
3 Od Rupa, Grad, Dubrovnik, 20000, Croatia
Beneath one of the largest buildings in the Old Town sit fifteen enormous holes carved into bedrock, each one a grain silo designed to keep the Republic of Ragusa from starving.
Fort Lovrijenac
29 Od tabakarije, Pile-Kono, Dubrovnik, 20000, Croatia
This fortress exists because of pure spite.
Jesuit Stairs & St. Ignatius Church
7 Poljana Ruđera Boškovića, Grad, Dubrovnik, 20000, Croatia
These stairs are famous for two things: being modelled on the Spanish Steps in Rome, and being the exact spot where Cersei Lannister was stripped naked and paraded through King's Landing in the most expensive Game of Thrones scene ever filmed in Dubrovnik.
Large Onofrio Fountain
Poljana Paska Miličevića, Grad, Dubrovnik, 20000, Croatia
This sixteen-sided polygon of stone and water, sitting just inside the Pile Gate, is the terminus of an engineering project so ambitious it still functions nearly six centuries later.
Minčeta Tower
City Walls, 20000 Dubrovnik
This is the crown of Dubrovnik's defences — literally and figuratively.
Pile Gate
Ul. Vrata od Pila, 20000 Dubrovnik
Every day for centuries, the keys to this gate were ceremonially handed to the Rector at sunset and returned at dawn.
Ploče Gate
Ul. Vrata od Ploča, 20000 Dubrovnik
If Pile Gate is Dubrovnik's front door, Ploče Gate is the side entrance — and the Republic fortified it even more heavily.
Rector's Palace
Ul. Pred Dvorom 3, 20000 Dubrovnik
The Republic of Ragusa was so paranoid about tyranny that it only let its head of state serve for one month at a time.
Sponza Palace
Stradun 2, 20000 Dubrovnik
Every single transaction that passed through the Republic of Ragusa — every bale of silk, every sack of salt, every crate of spices from the Orient — was weighed, measured, taxed, and recorded inside this building.
St. John Fortress & Maritime Museum
Ul. Kneza Damjana Jude 12, 20000 Dubrovnik
This massive curved fortress anchors the southeastern corner of the Old Town, its thick walls forming the eastern breakwater of the Old Port.
Stradun
Stradun, 20000 Dubrovnik
The main street of Dubrovnik's Old Town was once a shallow sea channel.
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