Dubrovnik: Mystique and Legends

What to expect

• Boninovo Panoramic Platform. This place was once considered cursed as many Dubrovnik locals went to their deaths from here. Today, lovers hang padlocks on the metal fence.
• Cemetery. The most beautiful tomb where a young girl named Maria is buried. Her death was declared accidental, but a servant revealed it was a suicide due to unrequited love.
• Skochibuha Mansion. This house was frequented by Masons, whom locals called necromancers, believing they delved in spiritualism.
• Mata Pucic's Mansion - Nero, who built himself a sarcophagus while alive and would lead his friends to it.
• Lovrijenac Fortress. A prison for aristocrats, the Dubrovnik 'Alcatraz', where offenders of insults and attacks on the city streets served time. I will tell you about the scary monster that appeared here in the 18th century.
• Bokar Fortress. A prison for political criminals whose deaths authorities wanted to keep hidden from the public.

Program also includes Pile Square, Kukuljevich Street with the cursed house, Hotel 'Imperial' where ghosts were once seen, Villa 'Dubravka', Park Gradac!

During the tour you will learn:

• Which burial traditions are observed in Dubrovnik
• Which procession is listed in the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage
• What punishments existed in medieval Dubrovnik for different social classes
• Why witches were executed here despite the city not being affected by the inquisition
• How political prisoners were secretly disposed of
• Which story is linked to the 'cursed island' and which kings and princes suffered from the curse of the Benedictines
• What traditions emerged in the city after the plague