Sunday, September 9, 2012

August 30, 2012

Leaving the port of Dubrovnik again..
...to visit Cavtat, some kind of village... Not so much to see there, damn, I should read about the places before visiting :))
Came back to Dubrovnik to try the Island of Lokrum, where it is said that Richard the Lionheart found sanctuary after his ship was wrecked when he returned from a crusade. In order to praise his salvation he intended to build a monastery on the island, but the construction was abandoned shortly due to citizen's claim to build it on the mainland. Few hundreds years after a duke continued it and transformed it for a while in its personal quarters.
Later on a botanical garden was founded on the island.