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Rates & avialability per week

Period	Price
July	486.00 €
August	486.00 €
September	413.00 €
November	413.00 €
May	413.00 €
June	413.00 €
Other	343.00 €

Rates & avialability per night

Period	Price
July	69.00 €
August	69.00 €
September	59.00 €
November	59.00 €
May	59.00 €
June	59.00 €
Other	49.00 €

Rates & avialability per month

Period	Price
July	2070.00 €
August	2070.00 €
September	1770.00 €
November	1770.00 €
May	1770.00 €
June	1770.00 €
Other	1470.00 €

If you are interested in sightseeing of the town from the sea with speed motor boat (Yamaha 25) we can provide you with that service too.

• Supplement for stay under 3 days is 30%.
• If you book, you'll pay 20% now, and the rest you'll pay while you are in apartment.
• Tourist tax is included in the price.

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Blue Romantica/Ref: 6812
Owner Name	Mr. Matko Luetic
Tel. (landline)	+385 21 218188
Tel. (mobile)	+385 98 1925613
Fax	+385 21 218 188
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Dubrovnik Old Town

The City of Dubrovnik is situated at the far south of the Republic of Croatia, from Cape Orsula in the east to Brsečine in the west. It covers an area of 143,35 sq. Kms and stretches along 20,5 km with the Elaphite Archipelago (islands of Šipan, Lopud, koločep, Olipe, Tajan i Jakljan).

The City is made up of 31 settlements, 47,004 inhabitants, with an average population density of 328 per sq. km.

average annual
16,4 °C

average coldest period (January)
9,0 °C

srednja vrijednost temperature zraka najtoplijeg mjeseca (kolovoz)
24,9 °C

average warmest period (August)
17,9 °C – 23,8 °C
Salinity
Salinity
cca. 38%
Sun
Average annual
2629,1 hours
Average daily
7,2 hours

Dubrovnik

The Dubrovnik Summer Festival presents a rich programe of classical music, theater, opera and dance on more than 70 open - air venues over 47 days in summer each year.Every story has its beginning. Great stories have many beginnings. And there is no absolutely reliable historiographic method to distinguish the truth. Or is it, maybe, impossible for great stories to start with just one beginning? I guess thats why every History has to have its Prehistory...

The history of Dubrovnik Summer Festival was - undoubtedly - conceived during thirteen nights of September 1950, when a real town persistently and uniquely transformed itself into an imaginary Town. Ten years later, French writer Claude Aveline, who had taken part, wrote how he could not surmise that he was attending "the birth of one of the most glorious festivals of our time".

The prehistory of the Festival is not as easy to reach. It seems that its rudiments go back as early ad the rudiments of the Town itself. As if they both grew out of the medieval urban matrix. They put forth leaves within humanist horizons, flowered in renaissance and baroque. In the eighteenth century they grew ripe. Then they tire in, so it seemed, inseparable co-operation in the dawning of the national epoch, when the imaginary Town irreversibly loses its nationally constructed counterpart. But a genius locus does not tire! The energy of the millennial history keeps on shining with artistic endeavors. Ever since, by command of its historical being, sharing the destiny of other Croatian lands.

The aforementioned genius loci gave power to the ideas leading to the constitution of the imaginary festival Town. Rumour has it that even Reinhardt couldn't resist them at the eve of World War I. And than in 1993, the occasion being PEN World Congress in Dubrovnik, Gundulićs "Dubravka" takes place in front of Rectors palace, for chosen international audience. It was a starry dress rehearsal of the birth of Dubrovnik Summer Festival. But it took horrid expectation in new age martyrdom before the happy moment.

Both history and prehistory from the very first artistic steps of the newborn Festival were at the same time a precious impulse and a limitation. Controversy had been noted a long time ago. And it lasts until nowadays. Because true art will never be a copy of no matter how glorious tradition. The strategy of this obstinacy was written by no other but a sequence of happy festival nights that divined reality. Nights in which Beauty was won.

Many an artist danced the Festival reel. Domestic and foreign. Famous ones and those who will come to fame under Dubrovnik sky. In the course of the half a century names and generations followed each other. But all of them were and always will be enchanted by siren call of the ancient Njarnjas and unrepeatable Dubrovnik, holding in common with its audience, creating at least temporary imaginary Town.

This is history without names or numbers. There is just too many of them, and they are all equally important. For the Festival is nothing but an imaginary parade. And a dream that rounds up that little life of ours.

Dubrovnik

Ragusa (Raugia) was founded in the 7th century on a rocky island named Laus, which provided shelter for Latin refugees from the nearby city of Epidaurus, today's Cavtat also Ragusavecchia. Some time later a settlement of Slavic people grew at the foot of the forested Srđ hill. This settlement gives to the city its Slavic name "Dubrovnik". The strip of wetland between Ragusa and Dubrava was reclaimed in the 12th century, unifying the city around the newly-made plaza (today Placa or Stradun). The plaza was paved in 1468 and reconstructed after the earthquake of 1667. The city was fortified and two harbours were built on each side of the isthmus. From its establishment in the 7th century, the town was under the protection of the Byzantine Empire. After the Crusades, Ragusa/Dubrovnik came under the sovereignty of Venice (1205–1358), and by the Peace Treaty of Zadar in 1358, it became part of the Hungaro-Croatian reign. Between the 14th century and 1808 Ragusa ruled itself as a free state. The Republic had its peak in the 15th and 16th centuries, when its thalassocracy rivaled that of the Republic of Venice and other Italian maritime republics. The Republic of Ragusa received its own Statutes as early as 1272, statutes which, among other things, codified Roman practice and local customs. The Statutes included prescriptions for town planning and the regulation of quarantine (for hygienic reasons). The city was ruled by aristocracy that formed two city councils. As usual for the time, they maintained a strict system of social classes. The republic abolished the slave trade early in the 15th century and valued liberty highly. The city successfully balanced its sovereignty between the interests of Venice and the Ottoman Empire for centuries. The economic wealth of the Republic was partially the result of the land it developed, but especially of the seafaring trade it did. With the help of skilled diplomacy, Ragusa's merchants traveled lands freely, and on the sea the city had a huge fleet of merchant ships (argosy) that traveled all over the world. From these travels they founded some settlements, from India to America, and brought parts of their culture and vegetation home with them. One of the keys to success was not conquering, but trading and sailing under a white flag with the word freedom (Latin: Libertas) prominently featured on it. That flag was adopted when slave trading was abolished in 1418. Many Conversos (Marranos) — Jews from Spain and Portugal — were attracted to the city. In May, 1544, a ship landed there filled exclusively with Portuguese refugees, as Balthasar de Faria reported to King John. During this time there worked in the city one of the most famous cannon and bell founders of his time: Ivan Rabljanin (Magister Johannes Baptista Arbensis de la Tolle). The Republic gradually declined after a crisis of Mediterranean shipping — and especially a catastrophic earthquake in 1667 that killed over 5000 citizens, including the Rector, leveling most of the public buildings — ruined the well-being of the Republic. In 1699 the Republic sold two patches of its territory to the Ottomans in order to avoid terrestrial borderline, with advancing Venetian forces. In 1806 the city surrendered to French forces, as that was the only way to cut a month's long siege by the Russian-Montenegrin fleets (during which 3000 cannonballs fell on the city). At first Napoleon demanded only free passage for his troops, promising not to occupy the territory and stressing that the French were friends of the Ragusans. Later, however, French forces blockaded the harbours, forcing the government to give in and let French troops enter the city. On this day, all flags and coats of arms above the city walls were painted black as a sign of grief. In 1808, Marshal Marmont abolished the republic and integrated its territory into the Illyrian provinces. In 1815 the former Ragusan Government, i.e. its noble assembly, met for the last time in the ljetnikovac in Mokošica. Once again heavy efforts were undertaken to reestablish the Republic however this time it was all in vain. After fall of the Republic most of the aristocracy died out or emigrated overseas. Others were recognized by Austrian Empire.

Medical service was introduced in 1301
The first pharmacy (still working) was opened in 1317
A refuge for old people was opened in 1347
The first quarantine hospital (Lazarete) was opened in 1377
Slave trading was abolished in 1418
The orphanage was opened in 1432
The water supply system (20 kilometers) was constructed in 1436

Dubrovnik Riviera/Islands

If you decide to visit Dubrovnik, worldly known as the 'Pearl of Adriatic' and to meet what is truelly hidden behind that magical description, than you are at the right place. Situated under the hill Srdj, bathed in Mediterranean sun and the Adriatic sea at the warm south of Croatia, where the string of a thousand Adriatic islands finishes, Dubrovnik is a perfect combination of everyday life and the spirit of glorious past, which is impossible not to experience in every corner of a city. Its rich cultural inheritance: the literatures and the dramas happenings, the magnificent architecture, the music and the painting art, the science and the diplomacy of the ancient City - Republic is indivisible part of cultural heritage of Europe and the whole world; Dubrovnik is also listed under the UNESCO world heritage list.