Dubrovnik

This story shows how a director turned artillery rooms and stairways into the structure of a performance.

The cathedral will show how a ruined city managed a major construction project through letters, calculations, and disputes with craftsmen.

A will made on the eve of an epidemic will link personal fear, a monastic commission, and an enormous crucifix above the altar.

The fort will explain why the summit was fortified and why the expulsion of the French did not restore the Republic of Ragusa.

The finale will show why the isolated fortress was defended not only against an attack from the sea, but also against its own garrison.

This stop will show how the city accepted a complex engineering project and made contractors answer for water losses.

The inquiry into the pilgrims will show how quarantine protected health, trade, and trust at the same time.

The square is needed to see how a conversation overheard by chance became a public matter of the Republic of Ragusa.

This stop explains how a medieval tower was incorporated into a fortification for artillery warfare.

The museum will bring the battle for the fort down to the objects and decisions of the people who were inside.

A theatrical premiere will turn the former shipyard into the setting for a dispute over the status of noble and merchant families.

The terrace shows why the cable car was brought to this very edge of Mount Srđ.

Here you will see how a promise of free passage turned into the end of an independent state.

Here the route shows how the decision to open the gate proved stronger than the entire system of barriers.

The eastern entrance links the republic's border defense with the workshop where a visiting founder underwent his test.

The final stop explains why driving out the French garrison did not restore the republic to Dubrovnik.

Here, military success will collide with the right to decide who enters the liberated city.

The history of this stone ridge will show how the protection of the commercial harbor began with cargo that captains threw overboard.

Here, a single act links murder, a life sentence, and emergency rule after the earthquake.

The surviving fortress would become the place where, after the earthquake, the republic's administration was reassembled.

This section restores the geography of the early settlement on the rock and of the former strait where Stradun now lies.

Here you will see how an open trading port was turned into a closed basin in just a few steps.

The keeper’s house and the old traces of the tower explain how the city completely closed off the harbor every evening.

This stop connects the sign visible from the city with the struggle to erect it and its later restoration.

Here, the post-disaster reconstruction will appear as a series of practical decisions about shops, housing, and the city treasury.

This is where the story begins of how a tourist building became part of the battle for the summit.

The final view will show the old signal line between Mount Srđ and the islands.