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The story behind the Festival of chamber music Julian Rachlin and friends began in 2000. when one of the world's most famous violon maestro's Julian Rachlin appeared at the Dubrovnik summer festival for the first time. Thrilled with the atmpsphere, ambience and accoustics of Knežev dvor, the Austrian violinist instantly fell in love with Dubrovnik and came to the idea of organizing a summer music festival located inside a unique historical city core, the most beautiful musical stage.

The first festival was already held the year after. Maestro Rachlin invited his friends to join him at these concerts in Dubrovnik and they were all as impressed with the city as he was. Even today, visitors of Dubrovnik include some of the world's most famous musicians – the cellist Mischa Maisky, pianist Itamar Golan, violinist Janine Jansen, cornist Radovan Vlatković and many others who take time out every September to visit Dubrovnik and the Festival. The uniqueness of this music event but also the venue it takes place at are best described by the maestro Rachlin himself : «I have never held concerts like the ones at Knežev dvor; the Festival in Dubrovnik represents an unusual combination of art and friendship, a rearly experienced synergy…».

In the past decade the Festival of chamber music Julian Rachlin and friends has become an unavoidable musical manifestation on the cultural map of Europe, that with its friendly atmosphere offers guests an ultimate musical experience.

All the chamber music concerts are held in the atrium of Knežev dvor, except when they are moved to the concert hall at Fort Revelin because of weather conditions. As a part of the Festival a free concert for the public is held at noon in the church of St. Ignacius and also interesting is the «Concert in white», at which the performers and the audience are all dressed in white.

This year the Festival will be held from the 1st to the 12th of September. Apartments Dubrovnik
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Dubrovnik, one of the most beautiful cities in the world, can after nineteen years again be seen through a bird's eye view. The cable cart, which reaches the hill Srđ in under 4 minutes, in a cabin for 30 passengers, offers a beautiful and unforgettable view of Dubrovnik, has finally been renewed.

A former symbol of Dubrovnik's tourism (built in 1969) has not been in function since the time of war in 1991., and now after about five million euros has been put in for its renewal, the cable cart is back to its former glory and well on its way to become a big tourist attraction once again.
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The Đurovića cave in Konavli, a natural phenomenon, located under the runway of the airport in Dubrovnik, since recently offers visitors not only natural beauty and «sculptures» created through millions of years but also the opportunity to enjoy the best wines from the south of Croatia. The cave offers an ideal temperature of constant 16 degrees Celsius, which makes it ideal for storing high quality wines. Because of this «Nebeski podrum» (Skycellar), was opened here, a place where visitors can try and buy the most famous and geographically protected wines from Konavli, in a unique atmosphere. The explored part of the cave is illuminated and the trails are surrounded. The cave is open every day from 10 am to 6 pm.

«Nebeski podrum» is a unique place and a world of its own worth visiting and enjoying in tasting high quality wines in a beautiful, unlikely atmosphere.
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The City of Dubrovik, the destination of numerous visitors in the summer as well as year-round, has decided on one more way of saying welcome to its visitors: by introducing the tourist card for the price of EUR 15. The card enables visitors to take a tour of the remarkable city walls, three museums, the fortress Revelin, the Dubrovnik art gallery, the home of Marin Drzi and the Dulci ­ Masle ­ Pulitika gallery with a 50% discount compared to regular ticket prices, making cultural monuments of the city more accessible to all.The daily tourist card was introduced at the beginning of August of this year, and in 2010 a weekly card will be introduced. The cards are sold at info centres of the City of Dubrovnik Tourist Board at the following locations: Siroka ulica, Gruz, Lapad, Lopud, Sipan and the Dubrovnik Airport. Dubrovnik, whose old city centre is on the UNESCO world heritage list, is visited by more than a million tourists every year, half of which stay more than one day in this city known for its high quality accommodation facilities. The rest visit the city as part of Mediterranean cruises, which always necessarily include Dubrovnik as one of their destinations.
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Dubrovnik, a city that has conquered the hearts of many visitors and world celebrities, can add one more recognition to the long list of awards it has received this year. The web page Skyscanner has ranked the Dubrovnik beach Banje among the ten most beautiful city beaches in the world. Out of the ten beaches, five are located in the USA, Canada, Israel and Australia, which makes Banje one of the top five European beaches. Though to everyone who has visited this pebble-stone beach any explanation is unnecessary, Scyscanner cites the most beautiful view of the Dubrovnik old city centre, located only 100 metres from the beach itself. Everyone has to be moved by such a view, says Skyscanner, adding the Dubrovnik beach also earned its status of a top beach with its crystal clear sea and the numerous activities and facilities offered. The old Dubrovnik city centre is one of the most attractive and well known on the Mediterranean, and is the reason why Dubrovnik has been proclaimed one of the most beautiful cities in the world in countless surveys. It is on the UNESCO world heritage list and is visited every year by many tourists, including members of the world jet set.
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The Dubrovnik hotel Uvala, operating under the Maestral Hotels company, has been proclaimed one of the best hotels in the world by Expedia, the world's leading online booking provider. Expedia awarded Uvala with the Expedia Insiders Select Hotel 2009 recognition, for its quality of service, dedication to making its visitors happy and an optimum cost to value ratio. The four-star hotel Uvala has already received much recognition. It features 51 rooms, an inside and an outside pool, and a wellness area on two floors that has also received many awards. The hotel also comprises business meeting halls and generally features a rich offering, on account of which it has repeatedly been ranked among the world's leading hotels. Recommendations for hotels Dubrovnik.
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Though it opened its doors at the beginning of June, hotel Valamar Lacroma Resort, a true conference centre judging by its facilities and offering, is already solidly booked for the autumn conference season. It already was host to the Libertas Film Festival, and by the end of the year, this hotel located on the Dubrovnik peninsula of Lapad will be host to a series of events, including the 39th annual congress of the European Association for Cognitive and Behavioural Therapy and the general assembly of the European Association of Tourism and Hotel-Management Schools, each gathering around a 1,000 participants. Also taking place in the hotel is The European Conference of the International Society of Transport Aircraft trading (ISTAT), and the MICE Europe congress, gathering participants interested in making business in the MICE industry (Meetings, Incentives, Conventions & Exhibitions). The four-star Valamar Lacroma Resort is the biggest conference and spa hotel in Dubrovnik. It features 400 rooms and suites, the wellness centre Ragusa Spa, spread over almost 400 square meters, and a rich hospitality offering. The biggest conference hall is "Elafiti", with the accommodation capacity of 1,110 people. There is also a separate business centre, with seven more halls and offices for rent. The first summer season of the hotel is dynamic. Apart from hosting the Libertas Film Festival, it has been host to the many visitors that have chosen to stay in it while vacationing in Dubrovnik. Recommendations for hotels Dubrovnik.
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As of 1 May of this year, EasyJet will carry passengers between London and Dubrovnik four times a week. Airplanes will fly between Liverpool and Dubrovnik three times a week from 2 June, while flights between Geneva and Dubrovnik will be available from 6 July, twice a week. As of 12 July, EasyJet will also carry passengers between Berlin and Dubrovnik, while Norwegian Air will introduce new flights between Warsaw and Dubrovnik at the beginning of this year’s season.

According to Dubrovnik Airport, 27 airlines will offer flights to one of the most beautiful tourist pearls in the Croatian Adriatic this year, 12 of them being low-cost airlines. According to the statistical data, they already account for 27 percent of the overall traffic in Dubrovnik Airport and the share will continue to grow. Last year, Dubrovnik registered 512,000 tourists and over 1.7 million overnights, while Dubrovnik-Neretva County registered around a million tourists with 4.6 million overnights. Most of the foreign guests came from France, UK and Germany. High growth rates were also recorded in arrivals from Russia, Spain, Scandinavia
and Japan.

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As early as the next season, Dubrovnik could have a virtual museum situated in the historical quarantine of Lazareti. A building permit for renovation of the premises has already been obtained, and the project implementation begins this autumn. The first among the ten boat-halls within Lazareti was designated to be home to the museum at this historical City entrance spot. The impressive complex of Lazareti is located at the east entrance to the city, an ideal place for a new-type City reception. The new virtual museum would make Lazareti an entrance station for most visitors to Dubrovnik, something like the walls.

The virtual museum will rely on the use of several IT technologies, the solutions of which will be used in the making of the exhibits. In the museum, the visitors would be briefly acquainted with the rich heritage and history of the City, as well as the spiritual strength it has had since the 9th century to date. In addition to standard tourists and visitors to Dubrovnik, this virtual museum will be an excellent place for a different way of learning about the City for guests coming from luxury yachts and smaller cruisers. While anchoring will be prohibited for megacruisers between the City and Lokrum, smaller yachts and boats will be allowed to anchor in front of Lokrum and the guests will disembark in front of Lazareti. Beside the cultural tourism that will make its offer larger and more attractive by this virtual museum, Dubrovnik announces the possibility of opening a big congress center in Babin Kuk soon.

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New projects are being prepared on Pelješac Peninsula in South Dalmatia that will significantly enrich the tourist offer of both the region and the entire Croatia – the reconstruction and tourist validation of the historical Napoleon Road and opening of a wine museum. Both projects were supported by the Croatian Ministry of Tourism. Although it is still not quite certain whether the tourists will be able to see them next year, the projects will certainly save this region’s past and tradition from falling into oblivion. The wine museum is merely one of the attractions that should bring tourists here. In addition to an oil mill, a winery and former wine and oil production methods, the tourist complex would present a collection of written
materials and items from the ancient times, so this museum would enable the guests to see the life and some customs of Pelješac over several centuries, even millennia. Built two centuries ago, the Napoleon Road goes through the most beautiful parts of Pelješac with several zero-category monuments alongside, which certainly increases its tourist value. In the section of the route to Ston, which many refer to as Small Dubrovnik, Ponikve, the mountain of Sveti Ilija (961 meters), and further along the peninsula, the road is mostly well preserved, which enables its tourist validation. The project should continue toward Dubrovnik, Neretva and Split. Situated in the Croatian south, Pelješac Peninsula is the second biggest Croatian peninsula, right after Istria in North Adriatic. Covered with evergreen vegetation and Mediterranean plants, the region has been known for winegrowing, olive growing and vegetable and fruit growing for centuries. Thanks to the exceptionally beautiful nature and close proximity of Dubrovnik and the island of Kor?ula, Pelješac Peninsula is very attractive for tourists. The most important tourist center is Orebi?, well known for its extensive tourist offer and as a ferry port providing the shortest connection between the mainland and the nearby island of Kor?ula.

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