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Advantages: everything here is advantage Disadvantages: not too many places to go out after midnight
, Dubrovnik paid a lots of money to stay neutral and free. That is something that I called "a rational awareness", missed and misunderstood among many cultures for centuries.
Numerous legends and stories on peculiar manners were told about the ancient beginnings of Dubrovnik and the most complete one is the one that links the making of the city with the Laus Peninsula, a hard cliff that was began to be inhabited by refugees from Eidaurum in the 7th century A.D. The site at the foundations of which emerged in mediavle Cavtat, 16 kilometers East of Dubrovnik was a Greek-Roman colony in the 7th century. During the attack of the Slavs and the Mongolian Avars the frightened residents of Epidaurum, that had been completely devastated by the invaders' attacks, escaped towards Laus where they began to make a new settlement on forest landscape ...
barefoot777 11.07.2005 (13.02.2006)
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Dubrovnik (Croatia)
Advantages: Fascinating Walkway through Medieval Dubrovnik Disadvantages: Can be Hard Work in July and August
Dubrovnik, a Unesco World Heritage Site, has now fully recovered from the bitter Serbian and Montenegrin siege of 1991-92 and has been restored to its former splendour. This remarkable former city-state has in its historic centre perhaps the most attractive and well preserved Baroque core of any European city, its swathe of churches, palaces and old stone houses neatly contained within the stone walls that have protected it for centuries. The city is sandwiched between a sweep of limestone mountains to the north and the azure waters of the Adriatic to the south. Lord Byron named it ' the pearl in the Adriatic,' and Bernard Shaw said, " Those that seek paradise on earth should seek it in Dubrovnik." Praskipark on numerous occasions has named this city as,' the jewel in Croatia's crown.' All great cities are described using cliches but ...
Advantages: Stunning views, good exercise Disadvantages: A long, long way up
Kotor is a beautiful little town on the Montenegro coast. It's a natural harbour and is a real jewel of the Adriatic. I'm going to write another review about the town - this one is about one the main attractions of Kotor - its CityWalls.
When we arrived in the town we looked up from the hustle and bustle of the medieval cobbled streets lined with busy bars and gazed at the walls which creep up the mountainside, apparently disappearing into oblivion. Montenegro means "Black Mountain", and wherever you stand on the coast, the skyline is dominated by the gloom of the mountains just beyond the town. We contemplated the climb - the heat was intense in the middle of the day - pushing 35 or 36 degreed Celsius, and it looked a long, long way up. The walls snake along as far as the eye can see, and you can just make out the colourful little ...
