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Neighborhoods in Brief
Old Town -- The area within Dubrovnik's walls is known as Old Town, and most of the city's main attractions are there. Besides historic buildings, Old Town is home to restaurants, cafes, shops, and services that line the Stradun -- a long (just under a quarter of a mile) and wide street that runs from the Western Gate (Pile) to the Eastern Gate (Ploce) -- and its backstreets.
Ploce -- Ploce is the neighborhood just outside Old Town's Eastern Gate. Most of the city's upscale hotels are located on beachfront property in this area, as is the city's main public beach, Banje.
Lapad -- There are no big-time historic sites in Lapad, which is just a long, leafy promenade lined with hotels and restaurants, backed by a residential area on this peninsula west of Old Town. Lapad abuts Lapad Bay, so it has some beachfront, but the neighborhood's main attraction is several moderately priced hotels -- moderate in comparison with the luxury hotels in Ploce and Old Town. The no. 6 bus connects Lapad with Old Town at the Pile Gate; the ride takes about 15 minutes.
Babin Kuk -- On the Lapad Peninsula, at some indeterminable point less than 6.4km (4 miles) from Dubrovnik's center and bordered on three sides by the sea and pebble beaches, the Lapad neighborhood ends and the Babin Kuk neighborhood begins. Babin Kuk has several hotels in various price ranges. It also has access to rocky coves with what optimists call beaches (read: major pebbles/rocks, no sand), as well as to scores of restaurants, shops, and services. Babin Kuk is connected to Dubrovnik by the city's bus system. Camp Solitudo, Dubrovnik's only close-in campground, is here.
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Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's Croatia, 2nd Edition, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.
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