The 14 Most Iconic Landmarks in Dubrovnik
14 landmarks with verified facts and stories
Cable Car & Mount Srđ
Ulica Petra Krešimira IV, Ploče iza Grada, Dubrovnik, 20000, Croatia
The original cable car was installed in 1969 — the first and only cable car station on the entire Adriatic coast.
Church of St. Blaise
Luža, Grad, Dubrovnik, 20000, Croatia
Dubrovnik's devotion to its patron saint borders on the obsessive.
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.
Fort Lovrijenac
29 Od tabakarije, Pile-Kono, Dubrovnik, 20000, Croatia
This fortress exists because of pure spite.
Franciscan Monastery & Old Pharmacy
Placa 2, 20000 Dubrovnik
Tucked inside this 14th-century monastery complex is a pharmacy that has been dispensing medicine without interruption since 1317.
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.
Lokrum Island
Lokrum, Ploče iza Grada, Dubrovnik, 20000, Croatia
This island is cursed.
Old Port
Kneza Damjana Jude, Grad, Dubrovnik, 20000, Croatia
This harbour once held a fleet that rivalled Venice.
Orlando's Column
Luža Square, 20000 Dubrovnik
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
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.
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.
Stradun
Stradun, 20000 Dubrovnik
The main street of Dubrovnik's Old Town was once a shallow sea channel.
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