Dubrovnik
Why go?
Not all cities live up to their accolades but Dubrovnik, now a Unesco World Heritage site and christened the Pearl of the Adriatic by Byron, definitely does. Its immense walls enclose an amazingly safe-guarded jewel of history and it’s hard not to feel transported in time when you stroll the gleaming ‘Stradun', its famously smooth limestone boulevard, polished by millions of other feet through the past.