Sponza Palace, Dubrovnik

A stone's throw from the Church of St Vlaho on the square Puddle (Luža) I admired another architectural must see Dubrovnik-Sponza Palace (Palaca are Sponza). Some researchers claim that this magnificent building as though embodies certain trade spirit of Dubrovnik, thereby underlining his wealth and culture passed by visual perception of luxurious Palace with its impressive façade. Sponza Palace built in 1516-1521 under the project of the very talented engineer and architect of the Dubrovnik Republic Most Milichevicha (Paskoje Milicevic), managed to harmoniously combine in the current construction of Gothic and early Renaissance styles. Just one look at the façade of the Palace, to come to the conclusion that the wizard still failed the successful implementation of the expressive possibilities of different styles in an extremely harmonious architecture of the building, resembling a stone lace. Throughout its history, the Palace has survived a lot of interesting and sometimes not the most cheerful events (it is enough to remember that in this building, according to some researchers, the French Marshal Auguste Frédéric Louis Viess de Marmonom, Duke of Raguzskim, it was decided to eliminate the Republican form of Government in Dubrovnik). Prince residence, Treasury, customs, education, mint, Bank, archive-through all these "hypostasis" was for a long time its existence Sponza Palace. And now it pleases our brother-tourist unswerving beauty (and the ability to escape briefly from the burning rays of the Sun dalmackogo in the shadow of its Colonnade).