Dubrovnik, Croatia

First created 5 Nov 2016. Version 1.0 - 11 Nov 2016. Jerry Tse. London.

Dubrovnik

All rights reserved. Rights belong to their respective owners. Available free for non-commercial, Educational and personal use.

UNESCO Croatian Walled City, Adriatic

Popular cruise stop off point

Dubrovnik is very popular stop for cruise ship, which bring in large group of tourists to the city everyday.

History of Ragusa

Dubrovnik was the centre of the maritime Ragusa Republic. The republic existed from 1358 to 1808, for a total of 450 years. It reached its commercial peak in the 15C and 16C. Although it was a tributary of the Ottoman Empire but it was virtually independent. Being under the ‘protection’ of the Ottoman Empire. Its merchants ship can enter the Black Sea for trade.

A painting from 1667, kept in the Dubrovnik archives.

A 1628 coin of the Republic of Ragusa.

The Fortifications

Dubrovnik is an UNESCO’s World Heritage Sites. One of the most noticeable feature is its fortification walls. The walls was constructed mainly between the 12C-17C. There were 8 sieges on the city but none was able to breach the walls.

The original moat around the walls has turned into gardens.

Fortification - Moat

Fortification – St Lawrence Fort

Right – Fort Bokar, an artillery bastion. Left - Fort St Lawrence fort, guarding the entrance to the rocky cove.

Fortification – Cavalry ram

A cavalry ram near the entrance allowing cavalry troop to get in or out of the city in a hurry.

Fortification – Bastion & Fort

A gun bastion and the St John Fort defending the harbour from enemy warships.

Fortification - Tower

The Minceta Tower was built in 1463, at the height of the Turkish threat, with the help of Pope Pius II.

The Walls

Left – Pile Gate the main entrance to the city. Right – St Blaise, the patron saint of the city. He was also a physician.

Walls – Landward Walls

The land walls are stronger than the sea walls. The main wall is 4 to 6 metres thick, but at certaint locations, the walls reach uo to 25 metres high.

Walls – Seaward Walls

The sea walls are thinner as the walls are perched on a cliff.

Walls - Fortress

St John Fortress extended to walls to prevent enemy ships from access the City Harbour.

View from the Walls

The narrow street of the walled city.

View from the Walls

On the steps of St Sebastian Church, Dubrovnik.

View from the Walls

The main street of the city connected to most well-known places and paved by marble.

View from the Walls

A view from the walls, with the cathedral in the middle, the town’s bell tower on the left and the St Blaise Church in ihe foreground.

Cathedral

The cathedral was completed in 1713, after the earthquake of 1667 destroyed the older building. Beneath the current building is a 7C cathedral, suggesting Dubrovnik was already well developed then.

The cathedral treasury is filled by precious objects, a reflection of the prosperity of its maritime trade. However, the most well-known is the painting by Titan, the “Ascension of Mary” c1550, at the altar. The painting is similar in composition to his first masterpiece, with the same title at Santa Gioriosa dei Frari, Venice.

Cathedral

Cathedral

The coloured marble and semi-precious stones inlays of a side chapel altar produced by the Opificio of Florence established in 1588, known as an ‘opera di commessi’. This is one of the best examples of Pietre Dure artwork.

Cathedral - Interior

The interior of the Assumption Cathedral. It was funded partly by the English king Richard the Lion Heart.

Cathedral - Roof

One of the several sculptures standing on the roof of the Cathedral.

St Blaise

The Church of St Blaise completed in 1717.

Rector’s Palace

The Rector’s Palace, once the administration centre of the city. First put up in mid 15C rebuilt several times due to earthquake.

Rector’s Palace

The enclosed courtyard of the Rector’s Palace, which houses the museum of Dubrovnik history.

Rector’s Palace

Carvings of an alchemist on the capital of the portico at the Rector’s Palace, by Michelozzo Michelozzi, one of the great Italian architect of Renaissance age.

Rector’s Palace

The knocker on the door of the Rector’s Palace.

Sponza Palace

It was built between 1516 and 1522 and was used as the custom house but now it houses the archive of Dubrovnik.

The Harbour

Usually, Dubrovnik has a harbour protected by its walls and dykes. On the far side is the St John protecting the harbour against approaching enemy ships.

The old harbour

The jetty in the old harbour, used to ferry tourists from off-shore cruise ships and tourist site seeing ships. Recently, the city saw the introduction of submarine-looking glass bottom boats for sight-seeing tourists.

The large harbour

Dubrovnik has another harbour on the west of the city. It is mainly used by large ferries, passenger cruise ships and modern fishing fleet.

The Fountains

The city has a well developed water supply system. Drinking fountains are placed at different locations in the city. This is the Big Onofrio’s Fountain, In 1436, as Aqueduct system was constructed to bring water into the city. The Big Fountain is one of the ending points of the aqueduct system.

One of the many taps on the Big Onofrio’s Fountain.

The Fountains

The Fountains

This is the Small Onofrio’s fountain by the town’s bell tower, on the other side of the town.

The Fountains

The sculptured head of the drinking fountain in Gundulic Square.

St Ignatius

This is the Baroque Jesuit staircase leading to the Jesuit St Ignatius Church. It reminds us of the Spanish staircase in Rome.

St Ignatius

One of the large church in the city. It is the Jesuit Church of Ignatius, with its Baroque fascade, built in 1725.

St Ignatius

The interior of the church.

St Ignatius

A stained glass window

St Franciscan Monastery

St Franciscan Monastery completely destroyed in the earthquake of 1667.

St Franciscan Monastery

St Franciscan Monastery possesses of a library of 30,000 book and there is a dispensing pharmacy there since 1317.

St Franciscan Monastery

The interior of the St Franciscan Church.

St Franciscan Monastery

Life-size Pieta carved by the workshop of Brothers Leonard and Petar Petrovic, above the portal, flanked by st Jerome ans St John the Baptist, 1498.

Orthodox Church

The Serbian Orthodox church.

Serbian Orthodox

The Serbian Orthodox church of the Holy Annunciation. Orthodox church does not have altar, instead it has a screen of icons.

Serbian Orthodox

An icon in the church. The Orthodox Church believe that Jesus is a real man. But they also believe that he is eternal, divine and the Son of God (but separate from God).

Serbian Orthodox

The giant candles in the Orthodox Church.

Gundulic Square

This is the Gundulic square, named after the Croatian poet Ivan Gudulic, whose statue stood in the square.

Ivan Gundulic

There are several bronze reliefs on the monument that based of his poem Osman, which contrasted between Christianity and Islam as freedom and slavery. Here is a scene when the heroine Suncanica is taken to the Sultan’s harem.

All rights reserved. Rights belong to their respective owners. Available free for non-commercial and personal use.

The End

Music – Ludo More, by a group in Korcula, Croatia, from their album Sol.

Similar Powerpoints