Dubrovnik – Mount Srd

Dubrovnik’s cable-car runs from the north of the city walls to the top of Mount Srd in just under four minutes. The top of the mountain is 405 metres above the city and the views from the cable-car station are stupendous, although the best views are from the roof of the Napoleonic Fort, which houses the Homeland War Museum, to the west of the cable-car station. Here the visitor can see Dubrovnik and the coastline without the paraphernalia from the cable-car system getting in the way. The museum is worth devoting time to as the exhibits clearly show the Serbs, on nearby Mount Zarkovica, targeting the old town of Dubrovnik with fly-by-wire missiles, artillery shells, and machine-gun fire. Naval vessels also shelled Dubrovnik. 56% of the buildings in the old town were damaged and 116 people died.