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FRANCISCAN MONASTERY
address: Placa 2, phone: +385 20 321 410
open: 9 am -6 pm, entrance fee: 30 kn, children 15 kn
Franciscan Monastery is built in the transitional
Romanesque-Gothic style. The construction started in 1337. In 1667
it was completely destroyed in the Great Earthquake. The door with
Pieta at Stradun is the only thing left from the original church
after it has been rebuilt. The Cluster of the Franciscan Monastery
is considered to be a masterpiece of architecture in Dubrovnik.
It was built in Romanesque-Gothic style by the famous Mihoje Brajkov
from Bara. The capitals are a true example of Romanesque style,
with bestiary motives bringing the spirit of Gothic as well.
Pieta at the church of Male braèe - gothic sculpture done by Leonard
and Petar Petroviæ (1498). The lofty interior of the monastery (reputed
once to have had ceiling paintings by Titian) was reconstructed
after the Great Earthquake of 1667.
The Old Pharmacy, located inside the Franciscan monastery, was opened
in 1317. It is the third oldest pharmacy in Europe, but the only
one still working. The inventories, ceramics, bowls, laboratory
equipment and old medical books of the old Pharmacy are kept in
the Franciscan Monastery Museum, among other highly valued and priceless
objects of Dubrovnik's historic and cultural past.
The Franciscan monastery's library possesses 30,000 volumes, 22
incunabula, 1,500 valuable handwritten documents. The well-labeled
exhibits include a 15th century silver-gilt cross and silver thurible,
an 18th century crucifix from Jerusalem in mother-of-pearl on olive
wood, an martyrology (1541) by Bemardin Gucetiæ (Gozze) and illuminated
Psalters.
Among the pictures is one of Ruðer Boškoviæ painted in London in
1760, and a painting showing the town before the earthquake. This
painting is one of the very few ones that show the Old Town before
the earthquake and is used to reconstruct and understand how Dubrovnik
was build before the catastrophe in 1667. |
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St. SPAS CHURCH
St. Spas Church is located left to Pile Gate, the
first church at the main street Stradun. The Andrijići brothers
build the church between 1520 and 1528 by the Dubrovnik Senat's
gratitude. The church has typically Dalmatian Renaissance wheel-window
front and Gothic interiors. Inside the church there is a magnificent
painting of the Ascension by Pietro Antonio da Urbino (1528). |
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STRADUN
The Old Town's main street is called STRADUN or
PLACA. It is a, approximately 300 meter long, pedestrian zone and
it runs from the Pile to Ploče gates, following the line of the
channel that once divided the town into two parts.The street came
into being in the 12th century, was paved in 1468 and reconstructed
after the earthquake of 1667. The limestone pavement, polished by
use, shines like glass after rain. The houses on each side, though
preserving an ancient ground plan, also date from the 17th century,
their elevation and style being uniform. Their shops mostly have
the characteristic "na koljeno" combined door and counter.
The "na koljeno" type consists of a door and window in
a single frame spanned by a semicircular arch. The door was kept
closed and goods handed over the sill, which served as a counter. |
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PILE GATE
At the entrance gate to the Old Town from the west
there is a stone bridge within two Gothic arches, designed by Paskoje
Milièeviæ (1471). That bridge ends at another bridge, wooden drawbridge
which used to be pulled up every evening. Above the bridges, over
the arch, the statue of city patron St. Blaise (Sv. Vlaho) is set. |
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PLOČE GATE
Entrance gate to the Old Town from the East. Outer
Gate of Ploče is built by Miho Hranjac in 1628, while wooden drawbridge
and twin-spanned stone bridge (15th C) by Paskoje Miličević are
similar to those at Pile Gate. Over the bridge there is the statue
of St. Blaise, the patron of Dubrovnik. |
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