Tourist attraction
Clock Tower of Dubrovnik
20000, Grad, Dubrovnik
Bronze bell and mechanical soldiers still striking the hour from a rebuilt fifteenth-century tower.
This guide to the Clock Tower of Dubrovnik follows the bronze founder Ivan Rabljanin, hired by the city's Small Council to cast a bell loud enough to carry across the walled town, and the two bronze soldiers, Maro and Baro, cast around 1478 to strike the hour forever. It traces the tower's rocky history, from a dangerous lean after the 1667 earthquake to its demolition and rebuild in the 1920s. Stand below at the top of the hour to watch today's hammer-swinging replacements do the job their originals once did.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.