Dubrovnik · Old Town · Croatia

Dubrovnik City Walls

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moderate

9/10

best: morning, sunset

adventurous, romantic

A local would say...

Walk the full circuit of walls that ring an entire medieval city — 2km of ancient stone above the Adriatic, with the sea on one side and 800 years of terracotta rooftops on the other.

The finest preserved medieval city walls in the world encircle the entire old town of Dubrovnik, running nearly 2km and rising to 25 metres. Walking the full circuit of the walls takes roughly two hours and offers constantly shifting panoramas — looking inward across the red-tiled rooftops and baroque church towers, and outward over the sapphire Adriatic and the forested island of Lokrum. The walls were built between the 12th and 17th centuries and never breached.