Gruž Market
Open-air fish and produce market wrapped around a sixteenth-century noble villa's garden walls.
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This guide to Gruz Market in Dubrovnik centers on Paladin Gundulic, a nobleman who in the 1500s built the grandest private waterfront estate the Republic's aristocracy had seen, sealed off behind a sea wall nearly one hundred fifty meters long. You'll hear how that walled pleasure ground slowly lost its purpose after the Republic fell, becoming a public promenade and, in 1938, a market built directly over Gundulic's old fishpond. It follows the market's spread across his former gardens and lawns until it wrapped the whole villa. Look for the long stone wall still running behind the fish stalls.
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