Budget · 3-hour walk · Dubrovnik
The city walls in three hours
Two kilometres of rampart around the old town, with the main street and the palace inside it.
The walls are the walk. Two kilometres of continuous rampart, one-way, with no shade and about a thousand steps, which is why this route does them first and leaves the flat street for afterwards. Go at opening or in the last two hours; the middle of a summer day up there is genuinely punishing and there is nowhere to escape it.
The route, stop by stop
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Pile Gate
The western entrance and where the wall circuit starts. Buy the Dubrovnik Pass rather than a walls-only ticket if you want anything else.
10 min here Walk here → -
Dubrovnik City Walls
Anticlockwise and one-way, 1940 m, unshaded. Take water; the three cafes on the circuit know they have you.
75 min here Walk here → -
Stradun
The limestone main street, polished to a shine by four centuries of feet and rebuilt to a single plan after the 1667 earthquake.
20 min here Walk here → -
Rector's Palace
The rector served one month and could not leave the building during his term. Now the city museum.
25 min here Walk here →
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