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Published: March 29th 2020
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Our full day tour of Dubrovnik was fascinating. For two hours, Jakica led us through the old city centre, combining facts with stories and personal memories. Most of the buildings that survived conquest, war and earthquakes are from about the sixth century, the fourteenth century, and the eighteenth century, plus twenty-first century new builds. Many of the historic buildings were damaged, some se...
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Isabel Gibson
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Lovely views of a lovely city. And eating out? Markets open? How February! It's interesting that the buildings and roofs are so similar yet the effect, to my eye at least, is appealing - quite different from the suburban developments with blocks and blocks of so-similar housing that I find ugly in many cases. Maybe it's the mix of angles and heights that make it work together. And with all those stairs, I wonder whether they have a low incidence of heart disease . . . Wellingtonians in New Zealand claim that benefit for their city, where every direction from the harbour is "up."