AKVARIJ Dubrovnik Aquarium
Adriatic marine life displayed in stone tanks built into a medieval harbor fortress.
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This guide to the Dubrovnik Aquarium follows a loggerhead turtle that spent decades circling a shallow tank inside Fort Saint John, the medieval fortress guarding the harbor since thirteen forty-six. It traces the complaints that began in two thousand, a conservation group's offer to move her to Naples, the aquarium director's refusal, and the inspections in two thousand six and two thousand ten that found nothing had changed. Along the way you will pass the fortress's centuries as a sea wall before it became a university aquarium in nineteen fifty-six, its dim corridors now home to moray eels, octopuses and motionless scorpion fish.
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