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COAST / DUBROVNIK
The shores bathed in sunshine, laying next to the blue sea are the shores of your soul where you drink the wild air and breathe in life.
"First there is the drama of a climatic fault zone: a Gothic, wintry intimacy -- the work of dark oaks and cypresses - set against a glittering, summery sea. Then, as one rounds another cliff wall, Dubrovnik appears, not merely as a medieval architectural masterpiece, but almost as a philosopher's ideal of beauty: a compass of mottled sienna roofs encased within monumental fortress walls that are, in turn, embraced by the sea on one side and by vast drifts of mountains on the other, while in the background lurk ranks of islands. The interplay of water and rock creates a misty image of dizzying depth."
The New York Times (USA)
September 13, 1998
By Robert D. Kaplan