Saturday, May 3, 2025 (continued)
Continuing our walking tour of Dubrovnik, Croatia.
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We have reached Luža Square with Church of St Blaise
(1706-1715, by Marino Gropelli in Venetian Baroque style),
dedicated to the patron saint of Dubrovnik where he is
traditionally depicted holding a model of the city
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Dubrovnik Clock Tower (totally rebuilt in
1929 including new clockworks, with bronze bell
cast in 1506); the clock has a single hand,
below a rotating ball depicts the moon phases,
then the clock winder's window in a circle,
and the blue rectangles show the hour and
minutes in Roman numerals |
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Sponza Palace (1516-1522, by Paskoje Miličević Mihov
in mixed Gothic and Renaissance styles) began as a
customs house and is now the state archive |
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Under renovation cover is Orlando's Column
(1417-1418, by Bonino di Jacopo from a
single block) with a figure of Orlando aka
Roland, a knight under Charlemagne who
came to represent the struggle for freedom
and justice; supposedly the length of the
forearm is the standard measure of a lakat/
Ragusan cubit that is also indicated accurately
with a line on the top of the pedestal |
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Marin Držic Theatre (1865) is a venue
squeezed between the clock tower and city hall |
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Sculpture (2008) of city poet Marin Držić
whose nose is shiny from rubbing for good luck |
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Another Luža Square landmark under wraps
is Onofrio's Little Fountain (1440-1442) |
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| Customs Gate |
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Woman in traditional dress with Konavle
Embroidery in strictly geometric patterns
that are part of women's garments |
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Cloister (1456-1483) of the Dominican Monastery
(founded 1315, 14-16C, survived the 1667 earthquake)
is now a museum that we visited
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| Cloister ceiling decoration and lamp |
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Well in the cloister, along with other city
fountains, provided water during the
1991 Siege of Dubrovnik |
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| Triptych (1512, by Mihajlo Hamzić) |
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| Polyptych (1448, by Lovro Marinov Dobričević) |
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Triptych (c 1500, by Nikola Božidarević) showing St Blaise
holding a model of Dubrovnik on the left |
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| Reliquaries |
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| Manuscript in Latin with illumination |
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Side window peek into the Church of
St Dominic |
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Church of St Dominic (14C) interior with the famous
Crucifix (14C) by Paolo Veneziano under cover |
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Altar of Blessed Augustin Kažotić with
a mosaic of the 14C Dominican bishop |
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| Prijeko Street is the shopping street |
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| Little Church of St Nicholas (1452) |
On our own:
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| Ship art created from found items |
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| Streets leading north of the Stradun have steps |
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| Entrance to the Dubrovnik Synagogue |
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The iconic rubber duck bath toy has
become a collectible trend in the
European Union, with ducks representing
countries along with other themes |
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| More rubber duckies |
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| Franciscan Monastery Church and Belltower |
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| Franciscan Monastery Church (c 1360) portal |
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A map on the corner of Široka and od Puča Streets details
the 1991 Serbo-Montenegrin attack on Dubrovnik,
pinpointing every bomb hit, and color-coding buildings
that were burned down, with roof and/or wall
structure damage, or with non-structural damage |
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| Bakery |
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| Back at Market Square |
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| Lavender products |
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Cathedral of the Assumption of the
Blessed Virgin Mary interior |
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| Old Port |
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| Fish nets |
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Catch of the day: Diplodus vulgaris/Two-banded Seabream,
Scorpaena scrofa/Red Scorpionfish, and others |
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| View from St John's Fortress of the three-arch Arsenal (1345) |
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View towards Lazareti (1590-1642) that was once a
medieval 40-day quarantine station |
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Edge of St John's Fortress (c 1346) view towards the
easternmost fortifications of Revelin Fortress (c 1463) |
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| St Blaise on the wall of St John's Fortress |
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| Pilot of the Viking Saturn tender |
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| St John's Fortress |
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| Panorama of the Dubrovnik Old Town to the left |
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| Completed another 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle |
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