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Dubrovnik Renaissance Gardens- Dubrovnik area, Croatia

The Mediterranean part of Croatia is known in the field of garden history for the Renaissance gardens of southern Dalmatia, especially in the area around Dubrovnik. The landed gentry and the rich plebeians of Dubrovnik began to build villas around Dubrovnik outside the walls of the city (at the mainland stretching from Cavtat to Orašac) and on the islands (Koločep, Lopud and Šipan) and that area was named Astarea boundaries were made at 1366). Each villa formed a complex that included a garden and the surrounding landscape. The Dubrovnik Renaissance garden was a specific type within European garden art during the Renaissance. It was not a copy of the Italian Renaissance garden, but it was the result of a fusion of Italian Renaissance ideas with the specific historical, cultural, social and natural characteristics of the Dubrovnik area. The Dubrovnik Renaissance garden is an architectural garden: it is constructed of stone and plants are secondary; the ground plan is geometrical, mostly rectangular. Peculiarity of the Dubrovnik garden is that it is a garden on the seashore, near the sea. Until today about twenty out of the three hundred gardens are preserved. Exceptional quality of a garden is a single -axis composition what is a rarity among the Dubrovnik Renaissance gardens.

Dubrovnik, Renaissance garden, Italian Renaissance garden, villa, county life, 16th century, architectural elements, single-axis composition

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