Dubrovnik in 2 days, on foot

This 2-day self-guided walking plan for Dubrovnik covers 18 narrated sights in an easy day-by-day order. Each day is split into a morning and an afternoon loop, and every stop has a two to three minute audio story in the Gingerguide app.

You set the pace: this is a suggested order, not a schedule. Walk it in 2 days, or stretch it out. Reorder freely; Dubrovnik rewards a detour.

The Dubrovnik route at a glance

Day 1

Day 1 covers 9 stops over about 2.6 km as the crow flies, from Church of St Blaise (Crkva svetog Vlaha) to Sponza Palace (Palaca Sponza). ≈ 2.6 km between stops, straight line

Morning

1. Church of St Blaise (Crkva svetog Vlaha): On the high altar of this Baroque church, a silver St Blaise holds a tiny model of Dubrovnik as it looked before the 1667 earthquake redrew the city. 0.2 km to the next stop
2. Walls of Dubrovnik: Climb the polished stone and walk the full loop of Dubrovnik's ramparts, nearly two kilometres of towers, bastions and sea-blue views, the town's single most-walked sight. 0.1 km to the next stop
3. Franciscan Monastery (Franjevacki samostan): Step off the Stradun into a serene 14th-century cloister, then meet the Little Brothers' pharmacy, dispensing remedies on this very spot since 1317, among Europe's oldest. 0 km to the next stop
4. Pile Gate: Dubrovnik's grand western entrance: cross the old drawbridge, pass through a Renaissance outer gate and a Gothic inner one, and step onto the gleaming Stradun with St Blaise watching overhead. 0 km to the next stop
5. Large Onofrio's Fountain (Velika Onofrijeva fontana): A great domed fountain with sixteen carved masks greets you just inside the Pile Gate, the grand outlet of a 15th-century aqueduct that still runs cold today. 0.2 km to the next stop

Afternoon

1. Fort Lovrijenac: Dubrovnik's Gibraltar: a triangular fortress on a sheer sea-cliff outside the walls, its seaward face twelve metres thick, its city-facing wall barely sixty centimetres, and a famous Game of Thrones Red Keep. 0.4 km to the next stop
2. Minčeta Tower: The great round tower crowning the walls' highest landward corner, Dubrovnik's emblem of defence, shaped by two Renaissance masters and later the eerie House of the Undying on screen. 0.8 km to the next stop
3. Mount Srđ (Brdo Srđ): A red cable car or a switchback climb lifts you 412 metres above the old town, to a Napoleonic fort, a war museum, and all of Dubrovnik spread below. 0.9 km to the next stop
4. Sponza Palace (Palaca Sponza): The palace that shrugged off the 1667 earthquake, still wearing Dubrovnik's true pre-quake face, once customs house and mint, now the guardian of a thousand years of records.

Day 2

Day 2 covers 9 stops over about 2.1 km as the crow flies, from Stradun (Placa) to Lokrum Island (Otok Lokrum). ≈ 2.1 km between stops, straight line

Morning

1. Stradun (Placa): Dubrovnik's gleaming main street runs arrow-straight through the Old Town, its pale limestone polished to a shine by six centuries of footsteps, and hiding a filled-in sea channel beneath. 0.1 km to the next stop
2. Luza Square & Orlando's Column (Orlandov stup): The Republic's ceremonial heart, where a stone knight named Orlando has stood since about 1418, his carved forearm the official measuring stick of old Dubrovnik. 0 km to the next stop
3. Dominican Monastery (Dominikanski samostan): A Dominican friary built into the city walls hides a serene late-Gothic cloister and a museum of Ragusan Renaissance paintings, guarded like a fortress by the Ploče Gate. 0.1 km to the next stop
4. Old Port (Stara luka / Gradska luka): Once the maritime heart of the Republic of Ragusa, this curved harbour still shelters fishing boats behind a mortarless medieval breakwater, between two great sea-facing fortresses. 0 km to the next stop
5. Fort St John: The mighty fort at the mouth of the old harbour, once closed each night by a chain across the water, now home to the Maritime Museum and Aquarium. 0.1 km to the next stop

Afternoon

1. Dubrovnik Cathedral (Cathedral of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary): Dubrovnik's Baroque cathedral rose after the 1667 earthquake, its treasury guarding a jewelled golden casket that the faithful believe holds the skull of the city's patron, St Blaise. 0 km to the next stop
2. Gundulić Square (Gundulićeva poljana): Behind the cathedral, a morning market of lavender, figs and candied orange spreads around a bronze poet, Ivan Gundulić, forever reading to a square that empties by afternoon. 0 km to the next stop
3. Rector's Palace (Knežev dvor): The head of state of the Republic of Ragusa ruled for exactly one month and could barely leave this palace, a fortress twice blown apart by its own gunpowder. 1.7 km to the next stop
4. Lokrum Island (Otok Lokrum): A ten-minute boat ride reaches this forested reserve of peacocks, monastery ruins, a saltwater 'Dead Sea' for swimming, and, thanks to Game of Thrones, a replica Iron Throne.

Distances are straight-line between stops; streets add a little.

Updated: September 6, 2026

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