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ISITORS TO DUBROVNIK (there are 90 per cent fewer of them than before the Covid pandemic) would probably have difficulty in believing that only 30 years ago, half the buildings of the city had been damaged in a violent siege during a vicious civil war. The spic-and-span-ness of is no doubt testimony to human powers of recuperation and to the prosperity, if not necessarily the charm, that mass tourism brings. In one of the narrow streets of the old city, in which tourists wander in their eternal search for sandwiches and souvenirs,