The best way to get your bearings is by making a tour of the still largely intact city walls, 25m high and stretching for some 2km, completely surrounding the old town. They are encrusted with towers and bastions, and it's impossible not to be struck by the remarkable size and state of preservation. Some parts date back to the tenth century, but most of the original construction was undertaken in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, with subsequent rebuildings and reinforcements carried out in the mid-fifteenth century when fear of the Ottoman expansion was at its height.

excerpt from
The Rough Guide to Croatia

28 August - 04 September 2004

Norman and Nyah, just above Pile Gate	Poljana Paska Milicevica from above
	Minčeta Fortress
	Lokrum, from the south wall
	Nightime view of Bokar Fortress

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