City walls, Dubrovnik

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The city walls encircling Old City of Dubrovnik are famous worldwide and they are approximately 1940 metres long. The city walls consists of 12 forts including 4 prominient ones, 15 bastions, four round and corner towers. The construction of the walls go back to the Middle Ages during the 13th & 14th Centuries which protected Dubrovnik from the many attacks. The main entrance was from Pile Gate on the Western side and Ploce Gate on the Eastern side wheras entry to the Old Port was through the Port and Fish Market Gates.

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The walls of Dubrovnik completely encircle the old city, and walking round them, with their battlements and towers to be climbed and explored, is a quite exhilarating experience. There are superb views from them both over the city and over the surrounding scenery and coastline. It took us over 2 hours to make our way right round with numerous stops en-route to enjoy the views.

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The city walls give you a good view of the old town and surroundings, and a fine walk for about one hour or more. Not many cities have walls like this...be sure to make the full round! Afterwards, you deserve cold drinks at the beach bar while watching the sunset.

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The (mandatory) walk on the walls of
Dubrovnik has two different sides: the ocean side and the land side.

Most people cover only the ocean side, from where its possible to see the most beautiful points of the city. It's the easiest section with not much to go up and down. To avoid the long lines, our guide made us enter in the southern entrance to the walls. It may have been a good idea (I don't know how were the things in the other entrance), but we made our way against the normal flow of people, and, in the narrow passages, we had some trouble.

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Dubrovnik old city is all surrounding with beautiful long and high city walls. You can climb up and walk around the city by the walls have a great views and landscape as well as check some of the hidden spots, ancient guns etc.

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Easily the most impressive feature of Dubrovnik are its immense city walls. They tower over the old town, many meters thick, and fully encircle it. I don't think I've seen any city walls quite so powerfully intact in any of my travels. They are as formidable as they are impressive.

And don't they know it. At 10 euros to walk them the price is outrageous. At 10 euros I'd expect a guide, some multimedia shows, an attached museum, and maybe some light refreshments. But no. For 10 euros you just get to walk on the walls and come back down again.

As a reference, I walked the length of the amazing, intact, walls of Jerusalem, stones that have born witness to centuries of the world's most significant history, for about 1 euro. The views from Jerusalem's walls are incredible and unforgettable, and a lot cheaper.

But even at that high a price, the number of tourists walking the walls was staggering, so I guess it's all down to market forces. Again this underlines Dubrovnik's core problem: It's just too popular.

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The most recognisable feature which defines Dubrovnik and gives it its characteristic appearance are its intact city walls which run uninterrupted for 1940 metres encircling the old city. This complex structure, one of the most beautiful and strongest fort systems in the Mediterranean, consists of a series of bastions, forts, towers and walls. The walls were built to protect the city and the republic against invaders. The fortifications go back to the early Middle Ages.

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The (mandatory) walk on the walls has two different sides: the ocean side and the land side. Most of the people covers only the ocean side, from where its possible to see the most beautiful points of the city.

It's the easiest section with not much to go up and down. But I decided to follow it all, and am not sorry for it.

The interior side is harder to walk, with some steep segments, but provide a different look, with some marvelous perspectives. And, fortunately (for me, of course!), it was the only way to see signs of the recent war.