It is an island of true Adriatic summer feel, full of Mediterannean and subtropic vegetation, amazing cypress and pine parks and citrus gardens. Throughout history Lopud has been an island of sea - captains providing the Dubrovnik Republic with many highly reputed seamen among them the illustrious captain Miho Pracat.

The island itself is 4,6 square km large and has only one settlement, located in a bay, named Lopud on the far side of the island towards Šipan. A small path leads out of Lopud and leads across the island to a miraculous beach in the Bay of Šunj, the Šunj beach

Šunj beach is one of the kind on the Adriatic, maybe even the whole Mediterranean. It is a sandy beach spreading across the whole bay with knee deep water reaching as far as 100 meters of the beach, ideal for children and for playing all sorts of watersports, mainly picigin, Dubrovnik's favoruite summer sport. The sea in Šunj bay and other Lopud beaches, like in the whole of Dubrovnik Riviera, is Mediterrannean warm and crystal clear, except on Šunj where it's a bit warmer because it is a shallow sandy beach.

If you dislike the long stroll across the island there is also a nice sandy beach in the Lopud settlement.

According to the Dubrovnik historian Razzi, in 16th. century Lopud had 30 churches, a vast number of Dubrovnik aristocracy summer manors, several monasteries and greater population. Today on Lopud you can see numerous remains of early-medieval churches, summer manors and fortifications.

You can also visit a Francisian monastery from 1483 with a cloister and a defence tower with walls. The monastery holds many valuable art works in its church of St. Mary of Spilica, with works of Pietra da Giovanni, Nikola Božidarević, Girolama da Santacroce, Bassana and many others. You can also visit the church of Our Lady of Šunj which is a cultural monument with many valuable paintings.

Lopud next to Lokrum is Dubrovnik's most treasured tourist excursion point and is very conveniant to visit as ferry boats have a dense schedule to Lopud leaving out of, Port of Gruz, Dubrovnik.

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