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Dubrovnik, Capital of the Seven Kingdoms

The Dalmatian city of Dubrovnik is a key location in HBO’s popular fantasy series ‘Game Of Thrones’.

Dubrovnik has served as the location for the fantasy city of King’s Landing after it replaced Malta as the preferred backdrop for the capital of the Seven Kingdoms. The look of the walled city has clearly imprinted itself on the fictional King’s Landing.

Start with a stroll along Dubrovnik’s City walls. Before you try and seek out the exact spot at which your favourite ‘Thrones’ characters looked out from the battlements, you will find yourself in Game of Thrones despite the fact that the filmmakers used a lot of special effects to enhance the Dubrovnik locations, adding computer-generated graphics to the existing skyline.

Visit the House of the Undying

Visit the barrel-shaped Minčeta Fortress at the north-western corner of the Old Town. It represents the bottom of the House of the Undying, where Daenerys Targaryen goes to look for her missing dragons.

Many street scenes were filmed around Dominika street, the main street that curves into the Old Town from the east. Here many of the locally recruited persons was seen dressed in medieval-style rags, pretending to shop at market stalls or gawp at passing royalty. Svetog Dominika and Stradun formed the backdrop to Cersei Lannister’s walk of shame, a scene that met a lot of objections from the local church authorities. The Inner courtyard of the Rector’s Palace, with its stone staircase, was used for the meeting of Daenerys and the Spice King in Qarth.

One of the most archetypically Dubrovnik street scenes is when Tyrion Lannister and Oberyn Martell stroll downhill, through the narrow stepped alleys that lead from the Rupe Granary towards the Pustijerna quarter. In this part of the city, with its maze of steep lanes and lack of tourist bars and restaurants, you realise why the filmmakers chose Dubrovnik as a set location.

Good reasons to visit Dubrovnik on your holiday

Dubrovnik , also lovingly named “pearl of the Adriatic”, is an old city on the Dalmatian coast in the extreme south of Croatia. From the 13th century onwards, Dubrovnik has been an important Mediterranean sea power. In 1667 the city was severely damaged by an earthquake, but it managed to preserve its beautiful Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque churches, monasteries, palaces and fountains. Damaged again in the 1990s by armed conflict, it is now the focus of a major restoration programme co-ordinated by UNESCO.

It was an independent, merchant republic for 700 years (abolished by Napoleon in 1806), it traded with Turkey and India in the East (with a consul in Goa, India) and had trade representatives in Africa (Cape Verde Islands). The city’s wealth was based on maritime trade; in the Middle Ages, it became the only eastern Adriatic city-state to rival Venice. Supported by its wealth and skilled diplomacy, the Latin/Slavic Ragusa/Dubrovnik achieved a remarkable level of development during the 15th and 16th century.  In 1815, by the resolution of Congress of Vienna, Dubrovnik was annexed to Austria (from 1867 on Austria-Hungary), and remained in the Kingdom of Dalmatia until 1918. During that time its official name was ‘Ragusa’. Then it became part of Yugoslavia from 1929 onwards. From April 1941 until September 1943, Dubrovnik was occupied by the Italian army and after that by the Germans.  Despite the 1970s demilitarization of the old town by in an attempt to prevent it from becoming a casualty of war, Following Croatia’s independence in 1991, the Yugoslav People’s Army attacked and surrounded the city on October 1, 1991 and the siege lasted until May 1992. The heaviest artillery attack happened on December 6 with 19 people killed and 60 wounded. Total casualty in the conflict on this area according to the Croatian Red Cross were 114 killed civilians, among them the celebrated poet Milan Milisic . Following the end of the war, a major rebuilding project led by the Croatian authorities and UNESCO began.

The 13th century old town has not  changed much compared to medieval times. Tall ramparts surround it and there are only two entrances to the old town which lead to the Stradun, the city’s promenade with its cosy cafes.. In 1992 considerable damage was caused to the city centre. Local efforts and international aid, however, restored the old town  to its former beauty.