Cavtat
Cavtat is the largest and the only urban center in Konavle that has been built up deliberately. It is located on the peninsula of Rat, which surrounds the well-protected and accessible bay together with the peninsula of Sustjepan. In its harmonious architecture, the centuries-old natural, spiritual, and material affiliation to the Dubrovnik Republic can be observed. Cavtat, the antique Epidaurus, was an important Roman colony in this region, which expires after the breakthrough of the Slavs and the Avarians into this area after the decline of the Western Roman Empire, and their inhabitants flee to the neighboring settlement Laus-Rave-Ragus, wherefrom Dubrovnik arose.
Konavle
Konavle – a place in the very south of Croatia, is the most southern part of today’s Dubrovnik Riviera, with whose purchase the Dubrovnik Republic rounded off its territory in the 15th century. Konavle is a region with particular natural beauties and contrasts: mountain and valley, green hills and naked stone, the blue and the green or, as called by the inhabitants of Konavle, “Gornja” and “Donja Banda”. Fringed by the Konavle mountains in the North, bordered by the Adriatic Sea in the South, it reaches from the entry into the Bay of Kotor. The name Konavle derives from the Latin word “canale”, “canalis”, in the local dialect “konali”, “kanali”, which is connected with the viaduct, which, in the times of the Romans, carried water from Vodovađa to Epidaurum, today’s Cavtat.
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