...the Pile Gate which today still holds its drawbridge although the moat below is now a landscaped garden. This is still the primary land entrance into Dubrovnik, a city which takes understandable pride in its walls. Here again we have a cylindrical tower (built in 1537) providing both beauty and function. These visitors pause on a double-arched Gothic bridge (built 1471) by Paskoje Miličević Mihov, a town native famous for his work on these walls and those at a nearby area called Ston where Dubrovnik controlled the lucrative salt trade. (Stay tuned).
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