Croatia Travels - DUBROVNIK

Byron’s “Pearl of the Adriatic” is a handsome aristocratic town encased in 15th-century walls. Along with Venice, Pisa and Genoa, Dubrovnik was one of the power hubs of the medieval Med, its vast wealth the reason for its Renaissance palaces, baroque towers, cloistered monasteries, churches and treasuries of art (Tintorettos, Titians and more). Although it took an almighty hammering during the war, restoration is now more or less complete and remarkably seamless, barring the glare of thousands of new roof tiles.