- Price
- £6.99
- Edition
- 1
- Frequency
- Annual
- ISBN-13
- 9781846700408
- Published
- June 2007
Time Out Shortlist Dubrovnik
DUBROVNIK HIGHLIGHTS
- Dubrovnik’s best beaches: Sveti Jakov, 20 minutes walk from the Old Town with a sunset unhindered by the city walls; Copacabana, ideal for kids, with water shutes and slides; or the simple, easy pleasures of Lapad, surrounded by bars and restaurants with an open-air public internet park alongside.
- Art itinerary: A walk around the main galleries in town, taking in some of Croatia’s most famous artists – in particular locally born Vlaho Bukovac, who exhibited at the second ever Venice Biennale.
- Away from the Old Town blighted with bland, tourist-trap restaurants and samey menus, Englishman Charles Liddle has built his own: the Barun. And superb it is too, with a swimming pool you can dip into before dining, and a garden.
- Sassy souvenirs: A small number of venues produce original goods in unusual surroundings: the ceramics and glassware at affordable prices at the Dubrovacka kuca, attached to Zagreb’s Museum of Arts and Crafts; the Art Studio Trabakul, in a replica of an Adriatic ship, with smaller maritime replicas and framed, faded photographs of old Dubrovnik; the Eminence Art Workshop, with carved figures and modern takes on iconography.
- Libertas: Dubrovnik’s unsung arts festival makes hardly a blip on a cultural radar screen dominated by the main Dubrovnik Festival – yet stars such as Owen Wilson and Christopher Walken turn up for this international cinematic event and screenings of contemporary works take place at outdoor venues on summer evenings.
- Dubrovnik’s best beaches: Sveti Jakov, 20 minutes walk from the Old Town with a sunset unhindered by the city walls; Copacabana, ideal for kids, with water shutes and slides; or the simple, easy pleasures of Lapad, surrounded by bars and restaurants with an open-air public internet park alongside.
- Art itinerary: A walk around the main galleries in town, taking in some of Croatia’s most famous artists – in particular locally born Vlaho Bukovac, who exhibited at the second ever Venice Biennale.
- Away from the Old Town blighted with bland, tourist-trap restaurants and samey menus, Englishman Charles Liddle has built his own: the Barun. And superb it is too, with a swimming pool you can dip into before dining, and a garden.
- Sassy souvenirs: A small number of venues produce original goods in unusual surroundings: the ceramics and glassware at affordable prices at the Dubrovacka kuca, attached to Zagreb’s Museum of Arts and Crafts; the Art Studio Trabakul, in a replica of an Adriatic ship, with smaller maritime replicas and framed, faded photographs of old Dubrovnik; the Eminence Art Workshop, with carved figures and modern takes on iconography.
- Libertas: Dubrovnik’s unsung arts festival makes hardly a blip on a cultural radar screen dominated by the main Dubrovnik Festival – yet stars such as Owen Wilson and Christopher Walken turn up for this international cinematic event and screenings of contemporary works take place at outdoor venues on summer evenings.