DUBROVNIK – Croatia 🇭🇷 [Full HD]

Video and photos in Full HD I have made during my trip to Dubrovnik (Ragusa) in Croatia in May 2018, including video footages and photos taken with my drone Dji Mavic Pro (in HD). The video includes the following highlights: walls of Dubrovnik, Minceta Tower, Pile gate, Church Sveti Spaso, Franciscan Church and Monastery, Fountain Onofrijeva, Stradun (Placa), Orlando Statue, Church Sv. Vlaho, Bell Tower and Loggia, Old Port, Tower Bokar (Lapidarij), Cavtat.
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Roberto from Switzerland (founder of the Swiss Travel Channel)

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Photocamera: Sony Cybershot DSC-RX100 IV
Drone: Dji Mavic Pro
Editing program: Magix Movie Edit Pro 16 Premium

Soundtracks:
1. Dana – Vibe Tracks (from the YouTube Audio library)
2. Riot – Blizzards (from the YouTube Audio library)

Next videos to come:
Japan (Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima and Himeji)
French Riviera (Nice, Monaco)
Hawaii (Oahu Island)

P.S.: future videos will include more amazing footages taken with my Dji Mavic drone.

DUBROVNIK (source Wikipedia):

Dubrovnik (historically Latin: Ragusa) is a Croatian city on the Adriatic Sea. It is one of the most prominent tourist destinations in the Mediterranean Sea, a seaport and the centre of Dubrovnik-Neretva County. Its total population is 42,615 (census 2011). In 1979, the city of Dubrovnik joined the UNESCO list of World Heritage sites.

The prosperity of the city was historically based on maritime trade; as the capital of the maritime Republic of Ragusa, it achieved a high level of development, particularly during the 15th and 16th centuries, as it became notable for its wealth and skilled diplomacy.

In 1991, after the break-up of Yugoslavia, Dubrovnik was besieged by Serbian and Montenegrin soldiers of the Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA) for seven months and suffered significant damage from shelling. After repair and restoration works in the 1990s and early 2000s, Dubrovnik re-emerged as one of the top tourist destinations in the Mediterranean. By 2018 however, the city had to take steps to reduce the excessive number of tourists, especially in the Old Town. One method to moderate the overcrowding was to stagger the arrival/departure times of cruise ships to spread the number of visitors more evenly during the week.

The names Dubrovnik and Ragusa co-existed for several centuries. Ragusa, recorded in various forms since at least the 10th century, remained the official name of the Republic of Ragusa until 1808, and of the city within the Kingdom of Dalmatia until 1918, while Dubrovnik, first recorded in the late 12th century, was in widespread use by the late 16th or early 17th century.

The name Dubrovnik of the Adriatic city is first recorded in the Charter of Ban Kulin (1189). It is mostly explained as “dubron”, a Celtic name for water (Gaulish dubron, Irish dobar, Welsh dubr/dwfr, Cornish dofer), akin to the toponyms Douvres, Dover, and Tauber.

The historical name Ragusa is recorded in the Greek form Ῥαούσιν (Rhaousin, Latinized Ragusium) in the 10th century. It was recorded in various forms in the medieval period, Rausia, Lavusa, Labusa, Raugia, Rachusa. Various attempts have been made to etymologize the name. Suggestions include derivation from Greek ῥάξ, ῥαγός “grape”; from Greek ῥώξ, ῥωγός “narrow passage”; Greek ῥωγάς “ragged (of rocks)”, ῥαγή (ῥαγάς) “fissure”; from the name of the Epirote tribe of the Rhogoi, from an unidentified Illyrian substrate. A connection to the name of Sicilian Ragusa has also been proposed. Putanec (1993) gives a review of etymological suggestion, and favours an explanation of the name as pre-Greek (“Pelasgian”), from a root cognate to Greek ῥαγή “fissure”, with a suffix -ussa also found in the Greek name of Brač, Elaphousa.