Stradun or Placa, the main street in the Old Town, with the bell tower in the distance and 14th century Franciscan monastery on the left, Dubrovnik, Croatia. The street is 300m long and paved in limestone. The city developed as an important port in the 15th and 16th centuries and has had a multicultural history, allied to the Romans, Ostrogoths, Byzantines, Ancona, Hungary and the Ottomans. In 1979 the city was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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