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Hours Mon-Sat 9am-5:30pm; Sun 11am-5:30pm
Location Poljana Marina Drzica,
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Review of Dubrovnik Cathedral (Church of the Assumption)

A gold-plated skull, arm, and leg that once were part of St. Blaise are reason enough to visit this restored cathedral built on the remains of two earlier churches. According to legend, the first church on the spot was financed by King Richard the Lion-Hearted, who was shipwrecked and rescued in Dubrovnik. He donated the funds to build a church on the ruins of a 7th-century basilica as a thank-you for his rescue. The legend probably isn't true, but historians say the original cathedral was an elaborate Romanesque affair so severely damaged in the 1667 earthquake that it had to be rebuilt. The cathedral was restored following the quake in the au courant Baroque style, and it thus became the third church to be constructed on that site. In fact, remnants of both earlier churches still are visible. Tip: Don't miss Titian's polyptych The Assumption of the Virgin (1552) in the church's apse.

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