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From Luža you can head either northeast via the Dominican monastery and Ploče Gate to the Revelin Fortress, or south to the Rector's Palace (Knežev dvor), the seat of the Ragusan government. The building was effectively a prison: the rector, elected for just one month, had no real power and could on…

A narrow passageway leads from St Saviour's Church to the fourteenth-century Franciscan monastery (Franjevački samostan) complex, whose intriguing late Romanesque cloister is decorated with rows of double arches topped by a confusion of human heads and fantastic animals.The attached treasury is also…

There's no official entrance point to the Mljet National Park as such, and by the time you arrive in Polače or Pomena you're well  already weinside it. However, you're expected to buy a ticket from one of the kiosks in Pomena,

Towering above the town to the north, Mount Srd was a much-visited attraction until 1991, when Yugoslav forces destroyed the cable car that used to deliver tourists to its 412-metre-high summit. A handful of people still make the trip, either by the winding footpath (the aptly named serpentine) whic…