Benedictine Monastery Dubrovnik

... the water but will tomorrow. The first mention of Lokrum in writing was in 1023 in connection with the founding of a Benedictine monastery although there is evidence that the island was inhabited around 900 AD. The word Lokrum comes from the Latin for ...

... over to Lokrum Island (a small island ~600m off the main land), where he visited the botanical gardens, the ruins of a medieval Benedictine monastery and had a swim from one of the island beaches. Meanwhile... I headed back down the Stradun towards the ...