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The 14 Most Iconic Landmarks in Dubrovnik

14 landmarks with verified facts and stories

Cable Car & Mount Srđ
~3 min

Cable Car & Mount Srđ

Ulica Petra Krešimira IV, Ploče iza Grada, Dubrovnik, 20000, Croatia

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The original cable car was installed in 1969 — the first and only cable car station on the entire Adriatic coast.

Church of St. Blaise
~2 min

Church of St. Blaise

Luža, Grad, Dubrovnik, 20000, Croatia

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Dubrovnik's devotion to its patron saint borders on the obsessive.

Dubrovnik Cathedral
~2 min

Dubrovnik Cathedral

Kneza Damjana Jude, Grad, Dubrovnik, 20000, Croatia

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According to local legend, this cathedral exists because Richard the Lionheart nearly drowned.

Dubrovnik City Walls
~5 min

Dubrovnik City Walls

Ispod mira, Grad, Dubrovnik, 20000, Croatia

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These walls have absorbed cannonballs, earthquake tremors, and the footsteps of roughly two million tourists a year — and they haven't budged an inch.

Fort Lovrijenac
~3 min

Fort Lovrijenac

29 Od tabakarije, Pile-Kono, Dubrovnik, 20000, Croatia

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This fortress exists because of pure spite.

Franciscan Monastery & Old Pharmacy
~3 min

Franciscan Monastery & Old Pharmacy

Placa 2, 20000 Dubrovnik

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Tucked inside this 14th-century monastery complex is a pharmacy that has been dispensing medicine without interruption since 1317.

Large Onofrio Fountain
~1 min

Large Onofrio Fountain

Poljana Paska Miličevića, Grad, Dubrovnik, 20000, Croatia

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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.

Lokrum Island
~4 min

Lokrum Island

Lokrum, Ploče iza Grada, Dubrovnik, 20000, Croatia

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This island is cursed.

Old Port
~2 min

Old Port

Kneza Damjana Jude, Grad, Dubrovnik, 20000, Croatia

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This harbour once held a fleet that rivalled Venice.

Orlando's Column
~1 min

Orlando's Column

Luža Square, 20000 Dubrovnik

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Standing in Luža Square since 1418, this stone column features a carved knight whose forearm literally defined how business was done in the Republic of Ragusa.

Pile Gate
~2 min

Pile Gate

Ul. Vrata od Pila, 20000 Dubrovnik

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Every day for centuries, the keys to this gate were ceremonially handed to the Rector at sunset and returned at dawn.

Rector's Palace
~3 min

Rector's Palace

Ul. Pred Dvorom 3, 20000 Dubrovnik

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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
~2 min

Sponza Palace

Stradun 2, 20000 Dubrovnik

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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.

Stradun
~2 min

Stradun

Stradun, 20000 Dubrovnik

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The main street of Dubrovnik's Old Town was once a shallow sea channel.

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