Dubrovnik Sights

Franciscan Monastery & Museum

#5 of 117 things to do in Dubrovnik

#537 of 49020 things to do in Europe

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  • Address
    • Placa 2
  • Phone
    • tel, info: 020 321 410
  • Price
    • adult/concession 30/15KN
  • Hours
    • 9am-6pm

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Over the doorway of this monastery is a remarkable pietà sculpted by the local masters Petar and Leonard Andrijić in 1498. Unfortunately, the portal is all that remains of the richly decorated church, which was destroyed in the 1667 earthquake. Inside the monastery complex is a mid-14th-century cloister, one of the most beautiful late-Romanesque structures in Dalmatia. Notice how each capital over the incredibly slim dual columns is topped by a different figure, portraying human heads, animals and floral arrangements. Also enjoyable is the small square garden that’s shaded by orange and palm trees.

 

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    Franciscan Monastery & Apothecary

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    This beautiful Franciscan monastery was built with a Baroque Church in a transitional Romanesque-Gothic style. It houses a Romanesque cloister and the third oldest pharmacy in the world. Its construction started in 1337. It was unfortunately completely destroyed in the Great Earthquake in 1667. The door with Pieta on the Stradun is the only thing left from the original church after it has been rebuilt.

    The Cloister is considered to be a masterpiece of architecture in Dubrovnik. It was built in Romanesque-Gothic style by the famous Mihoje Brajkov from Bara.

    The Old Pharmacy, located inside the Franciscan monastery, was opened in 1317. It is the third oldest pharmacy in Europe, but the only one still working. It holds ceramics, bowls, priceless laboratory equipment and old highly valued medical books.

    The Franciscan monastery's library possesses 30,000 volumes, 22 incunabula, 1,500 valuable handwritten documents. The well-labeled exhibits include a 15th century silver-gilt cross and silver thurible, an 18th century crucifix from Jerusalem in mother-of-pearl on olive wood, an martyrology (1541) by Bemardin Gucetiæ (Gozze) and illuminated Psalters.

    It can be a very quick visit if this is not quite your cup of tea, or you can spend more time walking around, looking at the paintings on the walls, trying to improve your Latin reading an ancient Bible.
    Or simply take it all in and spend lots of time to analyze each small detail in a precise way, this being said, only if you have an interest for Religion and its history, or need to pay a visit to the apothecary!!

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