Stonske zidine

This guide to the Stonske zidine walls near Dubrovnik traces back to thirteen fifty-eight, when the merchant republic of Ragusa began carving these ramparts into the ridge above Ston just as Venice ceded its claim to the coast. It follows the salt pans below, worth roughly a third of the republic's treasury and run as a tightly controlled state monopoly, and the raiders and rival ships that made them worth defending. You will hear how the walls stitch Ston to its smaller twin, Mali Ston, so no stretch of road or water went unwatched.