Gradac Park

This guide to Gradac Park in Dubrovnik starts at the clifftop railing above Danče beach, looking down at the tiny domed church of Our Lady of Danče, founded in fourteen fifty-seven as a quarantine station for plague ships. It follows the small bell in its tower through the centuries, once rung by nuns to send ships safely out of harbor with a wave of white cloth. You will hear why captains learned to watch for that gesture the way they watched a lighthouse.