Dubrovnik - jewel of the Adriatic coast in Croatia

by Cristina Nuta - Dubrovnik is a port on the Adriatic coast in Croatia. It is a very small city with only 50,000 inhabitants, but it used to be a major trading port and is now one of the region's most attractive tourist locations. The origin of Dubrovnik in unclear, but it is probably linked to the destruction of the Roman city of Epidaurum in the seventh century. Epidaurum was an important ...

Date added: 21 May '07