Rising over 100 feet above the sea, St. Lawrence Fortress (Lovrijenac) appears impregnable from both land and sea. Venetians tried to build their own fort here in the 11th century. Had they succeeded, Dubrovnik would have been their colony. Dubrovnik beat them to the punch, erecting a fort in three months -- in time to greet the ships laden with construction materials arriving from the thwarted Venice. The present footprint dates from the 14th century but it was modified in subsequent centuries including after the 1667 earthquake that devastated Dubrovnik.
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