We arrived to the cloudy rainy skies of Dubrovnik. Dubrovnik is between Albania and Split. The city is enclosed by stone walls (built between 13th and 16th c) which are about 81 feet high. The city was founded 1300 years ago by refugees from Greece and it was one of the most important cities on the Adriatic after Venice. Napoleon invaded it in 1806 and it was occupied by German and Italian in WWII. There are only 1,000 people who live in the city today. We visited the Franciscan Monastery which has the 3rd oldest pharmacy in Europe (1391), Onofrio Fountain (1438 they told us you could drink the water, but we did NOT), St Blaise's Church, and the 2nd oldest synagogue in Europe (teeny tiny).
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| Arriving in Dubrovnik |
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| Cloudy Skies |
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| Our pilot boat leads us to port |
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| Zoom to island |
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| Coming around the corner |
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| They made announcements that water tours are cancelled.... |
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| On the Bus |
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| Old Dubrovnik from our bus |
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| Top of wall of Dubrovnik |
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| On the bus |
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| View of the walled city |
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| Better view |
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| Waiting for walking tour |
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| Across from Hilton waiting for our walk |
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| Napoleon fortress |
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| When we arrived, no one was there... |
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| When we left, it was packed! |
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| Onofrio Fountain, I didn't see any "drinkers"except pigeons |
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| Nothing like wet ancient sidewalks |
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| Inside the Franciscan Monastery |
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| Walking down the quiet streets, short cut |
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| Turkish toilets, hole in ground just outside of this wall |
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| Inside Dominican Monastery |
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| Skies start to clear up! |
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| Inside the walled city |
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| Clock tower at the end of the walled city |
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| Napoleon Fortress with cable car |
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| Cathedral with gold treasury, no photos allowed |
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| Cafe around the square in front of bell tower |
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| Alex found this skull! |
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| Outside the treasury and cathedral |
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| Outside the oldest pharmacy, I tried to get some children's tylenol, but most of the pharmacies have all sorts of herbal remedies and little of our over the counter medicine. |
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| Outside the 2nd oldest synagogue, very small...it had lists of Dubrovnik residents lost in concentration camps and other memorabilia, plus some items in Hebrew which Alex read for us! |
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| Trying to navigate the old streets to find our way back to the Pile Gate (front entrance) |
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| Market time, looked good, but no time, back to the bus to the ship! |
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| Leaving Dubrovnik and Princess Cruise ship |
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| Zoom to their bridge! |
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| Nice yachts that we could see from our balcony |
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| Leaving Dubrovnik in the sunshine on our way to Venice! |
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