Dubrovnik Private History of Local Women Walking Tour

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In 2 hr walking tour through the Old Town of Dubrovnik you'll evoke the lives of women in this medieval town. They were considered second grade citizens, imprisoned in their homes. Let's find traces of their existence.In the seven hundred years of the recorded history of Dubrovnik Republic it’s difficult to find written records of the existence of women in this town. Poets glorified their beauty, but at the same time they were invisible. Scholars dedicated their discoveries to mothers and sisters, but their wives were supposed to be silent and obedient. It was important to have many sons, but at the same time daughters were burden, financially and otherwise. Who were the ones who gave birth to well known scholars, poets, writers? Who their wives were and how did they live?
This tour includes sightseeing of the Old Town of Dubrovnik concentrated on the position of woman (aristocrats and commoners) in the Dubrovnik Republic (13 – 19th c). A forcible ordination of daughters in nunneries, a treatment of illegitimate children and orphans, physical abuse on the one hand, and glorifying of women by numerous poets on the other hand was their reality. The tour includes a visit to the Museum of the Convent Od Sigurate, the last existing women convent within the city walls and a visit to the Od Sigurate Church, one of oldest existing buildings within the Walls, built probably at the end of the 8th or beginning of the 9th c. The additional attraction is the meeting with one of 5 nuns who live in this convent today.