DUBROVNIK

The famous British author George Bernard Shaw wrote in 1929: "Those who are looking for Paradise on Earth should come to Dubrovnik".

The region of Dubrovnik is the territory rich in carefully cultivated land and small places of great historical importance.

During the turbulent history, a large number of empires and maritime forces encountered here and collided: Byzantium, Saracens, Croats, Normans, Venice, small prinicipalities and kingdoms, then the Hungarian-Croat empire and then numerous other empires - Roman-Germanic, Ottoman, the Habsbourgs and Napoleon in the end.

In such circumstances the small town of Dubrovnik succeeded in obtaining, due to the political ability of its patricians, a form of the autonomy that was so great and complete that during the centuries it existed as an independent country - the Republic of Dubrovnik. Dubrovnik has transformed this independency into the universal cult of liberty, that was celebrated ever since by the politicians, messengers and poets.