St. Saviour Church
A small votive church in Dubrovnik's Old Town that came through the catastrophic 1667 earthquake untouched and still stands in its original 1528 form.
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When the 1667 earthquake killed around 5,000 people and levelled most of the city, this small votive church came through untouched. Built by the Ragusan Senate after a 1520 quake as an act of civic gratitude, it pairs Gothic vaulting with Renaissance detailing — an unusually early hybrid for its era, completed in just eight years by architect Petar Andrijić from Korčula.
What to look for
- The monumental inscription above the main entrance, placed by the Senate to record exactly why they built the church
- Gothic cross-ribbed vault inside the single nave, alongside pointed-arch lateral windows
- The main facade's Renaissance portal and three-leaf semicircular top — while the Gothic elements belong to the vault and side windows inside, the front wall itself is purely Renaissance
Located in Dubrovnik's Old Town; it is a small church, so hours can be limited — check locally before making it the centrepiece of your visit.
St. Saviour Church is one of 12 sights worth the detour in Dubrovnik, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the Dubrovnik pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in Dubrovnik
- Walls of DubrovnikWalk an unbroken 1,940-metre circuit of medieval stone — up to 25 metres above the old city — that held Ragusa independent for centuries.
- Rector's PalaceFour disasters over two centuries — fire, a gunpowder explosion, and two earthquakes — rebuilt this palace each time in a different style and left the evidence in plain sight.
- Dubrovnik CathedralA Baroque church rebuilt from the rubble of Dubrovnik's 1667 earthquake — its foundations partly funded by Richard the Lionheart, who owed a votive for surviving a shipwreck off Lokrum on his way home from the Third Crusade.
- StradunEvery building on this 300-metre limestone street was rebuilt to a government blueprint after the 1667 earthquake — and it shows.
- Sponza PalaceA stone arch inside warns every merchant: "When I measure goods, God measures with me."
- Franciscan Church & MonasteryThe 1667 earthquake flattened the church. One portal from 1498 made it through — and carved into it is a miniature of everything that didn't.