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DUBROVNIK, a town, port
and tourist centre of the southern Croatian coast; population 49,278. .
The climate of Dubrovnik is characterized by warm and dry summers and
mild winters. The average air temperature in the coldest month
(February) is 4.6 °C and in the warmest month (August) 26.2 °C. The
cold half of the year accounts for 68 % of the total annual rainfall;
the spring accounts for 29, the summer for 14, the autumn for 26 and the
winter for 37 rainy days out of the total number of 105 rainy days. Snow
occurs extremely rarely; with 2,554 hours of sunshine a year, Dubrovnik
ranks among the sunniest towns of southern Europe. In July it has 12.4
hours of sunshine a day, like Alexandria in Egypt. The vegetation is
subtropical and extremely luxuriant (olives, almonds, citrus fruit,
rosemary, laurel, holm oak, pine, stone pine, cypress).
Dubrovnik - the city of a
unique political and cultural history (the Dubrovnik Republic, the
Statute from 1272), of world-famous cultural heritage and beauty
(inscribed on the List of World Heritage Sites by UNESCO) - is one of
the most attractive and famous cities of the Mediterranean.
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