DAY 19, DAY 20 and DAY 21- LAST FULL DAY IN DUBROVNIK

To view a larger photo, left click on the image once or touch on a tablet.  To return to the Blog click or touch off the image.

On our last full day in Dubrovnik we used our Dubrovnik Card to take a bus ride to the nearby town of Cavtat.  This is a favourite destination of many tourists and we found a group from the cruise ship The Black Watch. 

The Black Watch in the distance in Dubrovnik

Cavtat has two harbours connected by a peninsular, we walked from one to the other around the coast.
 
The Western Bay with the Church of St Nicholas in the background

A panorama view of the Western Bay

We went into the Church of St. Nicholas on our walk around the peninsular. The church was built way back in the 15th century.
The Main Altar

A secondary Altar



There was a second church on the walk - the Church and Monastery of the Lady of the Snow. The legend says that one rich Roman patrician, who was very pious, had no children or family to leave his inheritance to. Together with his wife, he made a vow to leave all his earthly belongings to the Virgin Mary and prayed for Mary to guide him as to the concrete purpose on which he should spend the money. The Blessed Virgin answered his prayer and on August 5th, when Rome usually experiences a severe heat wave, the snow fell on the top of the Esquiline Hill. The same night, then Pope Liberius dreamt about the snow on the same hill. That’s why when the patrician came to him with the intention to build the church on the hill, the Pope acknowledged it as a sign from the Virgin herself.  

If you’re wondering what’s that legend got to do with Cavtat, the answer is that similar story happened there. Not the snow on a hill but a rich citizen who had no family to leave his inheritance to so he decided to build a church dedicated to Our Lady of the Snow.

The altar in the Church of our Lady of the Snow


A valuable icon in the church

Any time is a good time for an ice cream

We took the bus back to Dubrovnik and spent the rest of the afternoon back in the old city.  Our final piece of sight seeing was the Church of St Ignatius of Loyola, the construction of the church was completed in 1725.

Detail of one of the frescoes painted by the Sicilian Gaetano Garcia.

On the Dalmatian coast fish was always on the menu. 


Why this photograph?  

We have never been to a place where there were so many ATM's. They were everywhere. 

We returned to the apartment to collect our bags, took a taxi to the bus station and caught a bus to the airport.  We were staying near by.  Our host picked us up and took us to our last VRBO apartment.  This was another great place to stay and the host family was very kind and helpful even giving us a welcoming drink.  They drove us to a nearby restaurant, collected us and gave us a bottle of Dalmatian Merlot as a present.  They also took us to the airport the next morning where we caught an early Air Croatia flight to Frankfurt, connected with Lufthansa and we were into Vancouver in the early afternoon.  Not a good connection there but we were home by late evening after an excellent trip. 



Previous Page

 Top of Hungary and Croatia Blog



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Image
DAY 17 and 18 - LEAVING VIS FOR SPLIT AND DUBROVNIK To view a larger photo, left click on the image once or touch on a tablet.  To return to the Blog click or touch off the image. We were up early to get the ferry back to Split.  This time we were on the Valun which had taken over the route from the Petar Hektorovic.  We were then going to catch a bus to Dubrovnik which was due to leave in the early afternoon.  All the other buses were running on time but ours was an hour late coming in from Zagreb.  The bus cut inland to get on to the West-East motorway and then cut back to the coast.  Croatia runs along the coast but there is a piece where Bosnia Herzegovina has a small section on the coast.  The bus stopped here for a break and filled up with fuel, it must be cheaper than in Croatia. The refueling stop in Bosnia Herzegovina We took a taxi from the bus station to our apartment.  This was well appointed and the owners lived in the s...
Read more
Image
DAY 15 - EXPLORING THE ISLAND OF VIS We made an early start and our guide turned out to be excellent.  We spent the whole day traveling across the island and back.  He was very knowledgeable and we learnt a lot from him about the Island and the military occupation. To view a larger photo, left click on the image once or touch on a tablet.  To return to the Blog click or touch off the image. Up the hill behind the apartment with a view back to the Town of Vis and Kut On our way out we we told about the time that Tito lived on Vis.  Josip Broz, commonly known as Tito, was a Yugoslav communist revolutionary and statesman, serving in various roles from 1943 until his death in 1980. During World War II he was the leader of the Partisans often regarded as the most effective resistance movement in occupied Europe.  As the Second World War ended and the Cold War began, Vis, then part of Yugoslavia, was transformed by leader Tito into a military ...
Read more