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Historic Rector's Palace
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Rector's Palace...
Description:
The photo is the Rector's Palace. Built in Gothic and Renaissance styles
in the 15th century..
It's opened from 9 am to 2 pm, Monday to Saturday only.
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| The City Walls |
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The City Walls
Description:
Walking the walls is a great way to see the layout of the town with its four
monastries and find new perspectives over the tiled roofs of the city and the sea. The
entrance to the city walls are situated at the both ends of Stradun, near the
Pile Gate and beneath the City Bell Tower. The walls are most imposing and
well preserved, having a circumference of just over a mile aan are up to 18
feet thick. The best view is from the highest tower - Minceta - at the
northwest corner of the wall.
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| Fort Bokar |
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Fort Bokar
Description:
Fort Bokar was built after famous Renaissance architeckt Michellozi's plans,
with a beautiful stone coronet round the top. The task of the fort was to
defend the main entrance gate, the bridge and the moat at Pile. The fine inner
rooms and open spaces of the fort are used as the stage for some of the
perfomances of the Dubrovnik Summer Festival.
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| Revelin Fortress |
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Revelin Fortress
Description:
Revelin Fortress (16th century)
Revelin is a large fortress, an irregular square in a form, built outside the
city walls in the eastern part of the city, into the Plo?e Gata. It was built
in the middle of the 16th century, at the time of the newly-risen Venetian
danger threatening the Dubrovnik Republic. The building itself went on
rapidly, all other public building-enterprises and most of the private ones
were stopped in order to make the unhindered building of the fortress as quick
as possible.
The construction was made after the design of the architect Anton
Ferramollino, who was sent to Dubrovnik as a help by the Spanish admiral
Doria, a great friend of the Republic. The monumental and impressive building,
encompassed by the sea on one side and surrounded by a moat on the other three
sides, was a dignified and impregnable guard of the Dubrovnik harbour. One of
its corners entered the eastern city gate - Ploce, accomplishing a unique
defense complex together with the gate, thus guarding the eastern approach to
the city from the continental side.
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| St. John's Fortress |
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St. John's Fortress (Sveti
Ivan)
Description:
St. John's Fortress (16th century) was meant to be the main defense of the
city harbour and one of the most important defense fortifications of the city.
The first tower of the fort was built in this place in the first halh of the
14th century, and it is still one of the parts of the fortress. In the
following few decades the fortress has been reinforced, parts have been addes
to it, it has also been partly re-built, until it got its present
semi-circular form in the 16th century and so became an impressively looking
complex of buildings. Inside the ancient buildings we find the Maritime Museum
and the Aquarium
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