7 Hidden Gems in Dubrovnik Most People Walk Right Past
7 landmarks with verified facts and stories
Buža Bars
9 Crijevićeva, Grad, Dubrovnik, 20000, Croatia
The name says it all: buža means "hole in the wall" in Croatian, and that's precisely what you walk through to get here.
Dubrovnik Synagogue
5 Od Greba Žudioskih, Pile-Kono, Dubrovnik, 20000, Croatia
On a narrow lane called Žudioska — literally "Jewish Street" — sits the second-oldest active synagogue in Europe, established in 1352.
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.
Gradac Park
Od tabakarije, Pile-Kono, Dubrovnik, 20000, Croatia
If you want to know where Dubrovnik's residents go to escape the tourists, this is it.
Lazareti
8 Ulica Frana Supila, Ploče iza Grada, Dubrovnik, 20000, Croatia
In 1377, while the rest of Europe was still blaming plague on bad smells and divine punishment, the Republic of Ragusa did something revolutionary: it invented quarantine.
Old Town Basketball Court
Ul. za Rokom, 20000 Dubrovnik
In the far northwest corner of Dubrovnik's Old Town, wedged between medieval stone buildings and the inner face of the city walls, sits a full-size basketball court that has been voted one of the best-designed courts in the world.
Trsteno Arboretum
Potok 20, 20233 Trsteno
Twenty kilometres northwest of Dubrovnik, two Oriental plane trees stand guard at the entrance to the oldest arboretum in the world.
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