Dubrovnik has been through a lot but thanks to the tourist trade, the city makes sure it looks a lot like this old picture hanging in the Franciscan Monastery. Today we still visit a superbly restored walled town (although the harbor fortifications have been lowered at right.) Cutting horizontally across the middle of this picture between two towers is a wide street moving towards the port. Once what was above it was mainland and below was the island where the Romans sheltered their colony. In the 12th century, the marsh between was filled in, making it all one town. That steep rise in back is Mount Srdj which protects Dubrovnik from the nasty north winds here nicknamed "the bura."
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