Old Town Walls through time

Dubrovnik 1901–2019 16 photos of this spot

16 photographs taken at the same spot in Dubrovnik, spanning 1901–2019 — 4 of them from before 1980. Line them up and watch the place change.

The cloister of the Franciscan Monastery in Dubrovnik, Croatia, photographed in 1901. Founded in the fourteenth century, the monastery is home to a pharmacy established in 1317 that is among the oldest continuously operating pharmacies in Europe.

EU: Dubrovnik - Franciscan Monastery - Cloister (1901) 1901 The cloister of the Franciscan Monastery in Dubrovnik, Croatia, photographed in 1901. Founded in the fourteenth century, the monastery is home to a pharmacy established in 1317 that is among the oldest continuously operating pharmacies in Europe.

EU: Dubrovnik - Franciscan Monastery, cloister (1905) 1905 The Romanesque cloister of the Franciscan Monastery in Dubrovnik, photographed in 1905. The monastery is home to one of Europe's oldest continuously operating pharmacies.

EU: Dubrovnik - Pile City gate (1921) 1921 The Pile Gate, entrance to Dubrovnik's old town, photographed in 1921, a year after the city became part of the newly formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.

EU: Dubrovnik - Pile city gate (1950) 1950 The Pile Gate, main entrance to the old walled city of Dubrovnik, photographed in 1950. The fortified gateway dates to the 15th century and remains the principal approach to the historic core.

Croatie Dubrovnic Eglise Saint-Sauveur 2008 The Church of St. Saviour in Dubrovnik, Croatia, photographed on 19 August 2008. Built in the 16th century, the church survived the devastating 1667 earthquake that destroyed much of the rest of the old town.

Croatie Dubrovnic Grande Fontaine Onofrio 2008 Onofrio's Great Fountain in Dubrovnik, Croatia, photographed in 2008. Completed in 1438 as part of the city's water supply system, the fountain stands near the Pile Gate entrance to the old town.

Old Town Walls 2009 The medieval walls encircling the old town of Dubrovnik, Croatia, photographed in 2009. Built up over centuries and largely completed by the 16th century, the roughly two-kilometre fortification is one of the best-preserved city wall systems in Europe.

Dubrownik, Wieża kościoła Franciszkanów 2011 The bell tower of the Franciscan monastery in Dubrovnik's Old Town, photographed in 2011. The monastery, founded in the 14th century, houses one of Europe's oldest continuously operating pharmacies.

Panorama Dubrovnika 2012 Another 2012 panorama of Dubrovnik, showing the compact rooftops of the Old Town within its ring of medieval and Renaissance-era fortifications.

Panorama Dubrovnika 2012 A 2012 elevated view of Dubrovnik, with the Old Town's red-tiled roofs set against the surrounding hills and the Adriatic Sea.

Dubrovnik - ulica Stradun - Stradun street 2012 The Stradun, Dubrovnik's limestone-paved main street, runs the length of the walled old town between the Pile and Ploče gates, lined with shops and lit at night by lanterns. Photographed in 2012.

Dubrovnik in December01 2012 Dubrovnik photographed in December, part of a 2012 series recording the city's Old Town during the quieter winter off-season, away from the crowds of the summer tourist months.

Crkva Svetog Spasa - Dubrovnik 2013 The Church of the Holy Saviour on the Stradun in Dubrovnik, built in the 1520s and among the few buildings in the old town to survive the earthquake of 1667. Photographed in 2013.

聖薩維爾教堂 St. Saviour Church 2016 St Saviour's Church on Stradun in Dubrovnik, photographed in 2016. Built in the early 16th century, it was one of the few structures on the street to survive the 1667 earthquake largely intact.

Stari Grad in October 2018 The Stari Grad, or old town, of Dubrovnik photographed in October 2018, showing the dense arrangement of stone buildings within the medieval city walls.

Aerial view of Pile Gate in the Old Town of Dubrovnik, Croatia 2019 Pile Gate forms the main western entrance to the old town of Dubrovnik, Croatia, and is shown from above in this 2019 aerial photograph. The gate has served as the principal approach to the walled city for centuries.