The Voice of Dubrovnik weekly review

For the past month reconstruction works in the Rector’s Palace has been underway with the maintenance of the stone pillars and arches of the atrium. The first phase of the investment is around 10.5 million Kunas and will be funded by the City of Dubrovnik. This first phase is planned to be completed by April and the continuation of the further phases are scheduled to take place at the end of this year.

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The director of the Dubrovnik Tourist Board, Romana Vlasic, held a working meeting with the Ambassador of Albania to Croatia, Ilir Melo, and the Honorary Consul of Albania to Dubrovnik, Ivan Gjurasic, at the head office of the tourist board on Tuesday. The aim of the meeting was to encourage cooperation between Dubrovnik and Albania. It was also agreed that representatives of the Dubrovnik's tourism industry would visit Albania to present the tourist offer of Dubrovnik.

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The 1044th day of the patron saint and protector of Dubrovnik, St. Blaise, was celebrated the 3rd of February. After the mass that was held this morning at 10.00am the procession started down the Stradun in the heart of the Old City of Dubrovnik. Banners, flags, costumes and music filled the historic Old City as Dubrovnik celebrated its patron saint.

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The mayor of Dubrovnik, Andro Vlahusic, received at visit from the mayor of the German city of Bad Homburg Alexander Hetjes, one of Dubrovnik’s sister cities, on Thursday. Dubrovnik and Bad Homburg signed a memorandum on mutual cooperation in 2002 and since then the two cities have cooperated on a number of important projects. Alexander Hetjes arrived in Dubrovnik to celebrate the Day of St. Blaise and the Day of the City.

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Daily flights from Dubrovnik to Moscow could be a possibility this summer season 2016. The Russian based Red Wings Airlines recently applied to the Croatian Air Transport Agency for a licence to operate flights to Dubrovnik, Pula and Split. And according to reports by the Russian news agency RIA, and the licence has been granted opening up the possibility of daily flights from the Russian capital to Dubrovnik. The airline has been given permission to operate daily flights between Dubrovnik and Moscow and Pula and Moscow.

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The Dubrovnik-Neretva County tourist board is currently presenting the tourism attractions of the region at one of the most important travel exhibitions in the world. The Destination Holiday and Travel Show in London opened yesterday, the 4th of February, and will continue until the 7th of February. This is the UK's biggest and longest-running travel show and has hundreds of leading and independent tour operators as well as over 70 tourist boards from across the globe. The British market has long been the most important one for the Dubrovnik region. The most numerous tourists in Dubrovnik last year, in terms of nationality, were from Great Britain. In 2015 around 14 percent of all of the tourists who visited the Dubrovnik-Neretva County were British. Of course the number of flights to and from Dubrovnik and the UK is the main reason for the growth in British tourists.

What’s on?

On Monday the Dubrovnik Carnival will hold the Fancy Dress School Day on the Stradun at 11 o’clock.

On Tuesday the 9th a performance of Swan Lake by the Imperial Russian Ballet will be held in the Dubrovnik Sports Centre. The ballet starts at 7.30.

On Wednesday the 10th an exhibition by Bogdan Bogdanović will open at 6 o’clock in the Dulčić Masle Pulitika Gallery.

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