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The sun, the salt, the wild: Rethinking the heritage of Dubrovnik town beaches

The beach is a place of hedonism, refuge and escape from everyday life and a "cultural arena" (Löfgren 2002), where the changes of epochs can be traced. As one of the main topoi in the global tourism market, the beach has become a "global beach" with stereotypical images of landscape that may suit any location by the sea anywhere in the world. The town of Dubrovnik is the most important historic tourist centre of Croatia and their town’s beaches are an important segment of the tourist offer during the summer, but also a part of the culture of living, places of belonging and traditional sport contests that are of significance to the local urban community. An ever growing desire of present-day tourists to be actively involved in a local culture when at a particular tourist destination, in quest of experiencing a place in a unique way, faces the local community with a constant renegotiating of boundaries when representing the local identities and traditions. In this paper, ways of determining the boundaries between extending of tourist offer and preservation of local tradition are being examined on examples of oldest Dubrovnik's public beaches, their cultures, heritage and the local, traditional, sport contest in amateur water-polo, named Divlja liga (The Wild League).

beach; Dubrovnik; beach cultures; heritage; local traditions; Wild League

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