Dubrovnik: A Tourist in Croatia, Part 4
I can’t imagine being in Dubrovnik in the summer. We were there when the tourist season was winding down, but it was still crowded. Yes, Dubrovnik is very touristy and rightly so. It’s a city with an unforgettable setting of both the land and sea: nature, islands, imposing architecture, a medieval fortress, and the mighty walls. It’s like a setting from a fiction novel. Oops… that’s right, it was the setting of the popular TV series, “Game of Thrones” 5 th season. [If you were a fan of the show, you’d probably recognize the “King’s Landing”. While it was a photographer’s dream to capture the landscape of both the land and sea from a scenic lookout, the Old Town is the heart of the city. Accompanied by a local guide, we entered the old town and walked through the main promenade lined with palaces of Renaissance and Venetian gothic architecture from the 15 th – 16 th century, a reminder of its former glory. ...