Three Days in Dubrovnik - A Guide, Dubrovnik, Croatia

Lots of superlatives can be used to describe Dubrovnik, Croatia. Magnificent, beautiful, gorgeous, stunning, breathtaking, jaw-dropping, fabulous, mind-blowing—all the classic positive adjectives that you often read in travel articles apply to Dubrovnik.

As I’ve used several already, I’ll try to limit them in the rest of this post. It’s hard not to use them, though, for it is a truly spectacular—oops!—city.

We spent four nights and three days in Dubrovnik last summer and got to see pretty much all highlights. I want to say that, however great the city is, it is not that big and three days in Dubrovnik is plenty of time to cover it. This will even leave time for a side trip, as you will see below.

I’m not going to bore you with the historic background of this old, once-independent city. Many online sources offer all the information you might need—a quick Google search is all it takes.

I do, however, want to give you guys a brief geographical introduction. Dubrovnik is located in the far south of the Dalmatian coast in Croatia. The area surrounding Dubrovnik forms a mainland “island” of Croatian territory surrounded by other nations. Although the city lies on the Croatian mainland, if you want to travel by car to another part of Croatia and not leave the country, you’ll have to take a ferry. You can find why that’s the case when you read the history of Dubrovnik, which, by the way—allow me to throw in just one historic fact—was known as Ragusa up until 1918. ...... (follow the instructions below for accessing the rest of this article).