Dubrovnik City Walls
Good for: walking, Panoramic pictures, Photography, sightseeing, history
- Address
- Brsalje Old Town Off Put Iza Grada
- Transport
- Price
- adult/child HRK50/HRK20
- Hours
- 09:00-19:30 Apr-Oct, 10:00-15:30 Nov-Mar
Lonely Planet review for Dubrovnik City Walls
No visit to Dubrovnik would be complete without a leisurely walk around the city walls. Built between the 13th and 16th centuries and still intact today, these powerful walls are the finest in the world and Dubrovnik's main claim to fame.
The first set of walls to enclose the city were built in the 13th century. In the middle of the 14th century the 1.5m-thick walls were fortified with 15 square forts. The threat of attacks from the Turks in the 15th century prompted the city to strengthen the existing forts and add new ones so that the entire Old Town is now contained within a curtain of stone over 2km long and up to 25m high. The walls are thicker on the land side - up to 6m - but run 1.5m to 3m on the sea side. The round Minčeta Tower ( M01D8) protects the northern edge of the city from land invasion, while the western end is protected from land and sea invasion by the detached Lovrjenac Fort ( M01A4). The Pile Gate is protected by the Bokar Tower ( M01D9) and the Revelin Fort ( M01DA) protects the eastern entrance.
The views over the town and sea are great, so be sure to make this walk the high point of your visit. The entrance to the walls is immediately to the left of Pile Gate when you enter the city. You can also enjoy Shakespeare's plays, which are staged on the Lovrjenac Fort terrace during the Summer Festival.
Traveller reviews for Dubrovnik City Walls (6)
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A superb panoramic of the city
lacubanita recommends this,
The scenery was quite spectacular, as we walked The Walls of Dubrovnik, which are a series of defensive stone walls that have surrounded and protected the citizens of the city of Dubrovnik (Ragusa), situated in southern Croatia. Since the city's founding prior to the 7th century as a Byzantium castrum on a rocky island named Laus (Ragusia or Lave). With numerous additions and modifications throughout their history, The Walls of Dubrovnik have been considered to be amongst the great fortification systems of the Middle Ages, as they were never breached by a hostile army during this time period. In 1979, the old city of Dubrovnik, which includes a substantial portion of the old walls of Dubrovnik, joined the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites.
The walls run an uninterrupted course of approximately 1,940 metres (6,360 ft) in length, encircling most of the old city, and reach a maximum height of about 25 metres (82 ft). The bulk of the existing walls and fortifications were constructed during the 14th and 15th centuries, but were continually extended and strengthened up until the 17th century. It is a distance that you can cover in approximately 2h30, stopping every now and then to photograph main attractions such as the Minčeta Tower, Fort Bokar, St. John Fortress, the Adriatic Sea.
From up above, we could see the famous orange rooftops in Dubrovnik's Old City, Franciscan and the Dominican Monasteries.
We could also smell the aromas coming from the dishes local people were cooking in their traditionnal komin ovens, see the smoke coming up from their rooftop terrasses...so we would know where about to head out for dinner!Good for: walking, Panoramic pictures
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the city's most famous feature
dubrovnikguide recommends this,
Not many cities have walls like this...be sure to make the full round!
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