The city pentagon
The walled whole on the blue — the mother picture.
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Croatia's independence war (1991-95): the Yugoslav army besieged Dubrovnik seven months and shelled its UNESCO town, shocking the world — it held with a handful of defenders, the highest here on Srđ. The museum tells it in photographs of the burning city — then you descend to see it whole and well today: the ending that explains its people's pride.
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Srđ is Dubrovnik's sky balcony: the cable car lifts you from just above the walls 405 metres in four minutes — the summit opening the picture nowhere else gives: the complete pentagon of the walled city on the blue, Lokrum green before it, the Elaphiti islands chained to the horizon — the whole Adriatic's most famous panorama. On the top stands the Napoleonic Fort Imperial (1812), holding the Homeland War Museum: from this very fort seventy Croatian defenders held and broke the 1991 siege of the city — the summit memory before view, its great white cross rebuilt after shelling smashed it. Sunset is its imperial hour (book the Panorama restaurant's edge days ahead) — the sporting alternative the zigzag Cross path, ninety minutes' climb on foot: free, its view widening at every turn. The night's last cars strand the late: check the season's timetable.
The walled whole on the blue — the mother picture.
Napoleon built it, the Homeland War hallowed it.
Petra Krešimira IV, 20000 Dubrovnik