Amazingly blue water
My lovely wife in Croatia. It was a blistering hot day though. This was before 7:00am and it was very sunny.
We had tender service to the shore. The life boats shuttled us back and forth.
Old three mast ships
I think the devices can be locked in place to keep people from parking in the spots.
This was a huge bridge spanning the harbor.
The sign showing Split and Dubrovnik
That's our ship
Entrance area to the botanical gardens. We had to stop the bus in the road and dash across.
This is the sign for the Trsteno gardens.
Looking down the road we had to stop on.
Grapes growing on the columns
The columns were set to act as drapes and screens from the sun. That way the ladies of the area could be in the garden and not get tanned.
This was on the summer house of the local noble when they stayed in the garden.
We wanted to escape down to this swimming dock.
The water looked so cool and inviting.
The details were all over. We kept finding little things that were carved or adorned with fine craftsmanship.
Olive oil press
It was a huge wheel inside this farm house.
Bamboo brought from Japan.
Camphor tree
It was the Castle Greyskull of fountains! Statues of Posieden and sirens with a huge skull shaped cave behind it.
Roman aqueduct brought water to the gardens.
The Pile Gate of Dubrovnik.
This fountain provided us with fresh water to cool down with.
Huge walls towered above us as we came into the city.
Yes this was truly a walled city. Not only were the walls high and very thick but there was a moat and it was on the coast.
Everything was made from limestone
The limestone streets were so polished from foot traffic that it was slick and blinding in the mid-day sun.
A central fountain. Many people were filling water bottles.
We arrived a few days after the start of the Livertas festival.
Inside the monastery and pharmacy,
The pharmacy was the oldest still running one in Europe.
Its a goat biting a mans foot. We were a bit stumped over it.
A map of the old city we were in. It depicts the fire that destroyed part of the buildings.
Fresco paintings.
Sarcophagus up high on the wall.
Tomb on the floor.
The city was filled with very narrow streets and lined with little shops.
There was one central street that cut through the middle of the town.
Inside the requiem where the nobles and government lived and worked.
Interesting "hand" rails
