Croatian cultural heritage - Business - Hrvatska turistička zajednica

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The most beautiful jewel of Croatian cultural heritage,
the Old City of Dubrovnik, is situated in the extreme
south of the sunniest tourist region of Dalmatia – the
Dubrovnik area. The region is made up of the Dubrovnik-
Neretva County, which stretches across the coastline.
This is where Dubrovnik is the most important, but by
no means the only cultural pearl.
There is the home of Marco Polo, on the island of Korčula,
the green islands of Mljet, Lastovo and Elafiti and their picturesque
villages, the Pelješac peninsula with its vineyards
and captain's homes, the magic valley of Konavle, and the
fertile delta of the Neretva river. The Dubrovnik area also
had a special historical development from the 13th to the
18th century, when Croatian culture and art particularly
flourished. It peaked in the 16th century, during which time
the famous Dubrovnik Republic was most powerful (1).
The view of the OLD TOWN OF DUBROVNIK, when
seen from high above the sea (2), from the direction of Dubrovnik
airport, is one of the most famous views of Croatia
on the Mediterranean. After all, the first sentence in the
description of Dubrovnik on the UNESCO List of World
Heritage starts with the words "The pearl of the Adriatic on
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