Ethnographic Museum “Rupe”
Sixteenth-century grain silos carved into bedrock, now displaying rural crafts and costume of the Dubrovnik region.
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This guide to the Ethnographic Museum Rupe in Dubrovnik starts at the mouth of a stone pit carved into the bedrock beneath the square, one of fifteen shafts cut between the fifteen forties and fifteen nineties. It traces how walled, trade-dependent Ragusa answered the fear of siege and famine with a plaster of animal hair, lime and ash that kept grain dry and cool for years at a stretch. You will hear how long the granary served the republic before it was retired, and what now fills the pits where the grain once sat.
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