Plaža Danče / Danče Beach
Open-water rocky beach below a clifftop convent, where nuns still ring bells for passing ships.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Danče Beach in Dubrovnik opens with a question: who is the figure waving at ships from the clifftop wall, and why does a bell ring out over the rocks. It traces that ritual to the Franciscan sisters of Saint Mary's convent, built in 1457, and to the exposed, rougher water here that locals call the real sea rather than the postcard version closer to the Old Town. Long before sunbathers claimed the concrete platforms, the same convent sheltered plague-stricken sailors in quarantine here.
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