The Old Synagogue was established in 1352 and gained legal status in the city in 1408. It is owned by the local Jewish community and the main floor functions as a place of worship and a city museum. The interior is a mix of styles from different eras and differs from other European synagogues.
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The Church of St. Blaise was built between 1706 and 1715 by the Venetian architect and sculptor Marino Gropelli (1662-1728) on the foundations of the badly damaged 14th century Romanesque church. The vaulted interior is richly decorated in the Baroque style. The building was damaged in the 1979 earthquake and during the Croatian war of independence (1991-1992). St. Blaise is the patron saint of the city of Dubrovnik and once the protector of the independent Republic of Ragusa.
The Serbian Orthodox Church of the Holy Annunciation was built in 1877. The church has an important collection of icons, some of them dating from the 15th and 16th centuries. The church survived damage from bombing during the Siege of Dubrovnik in 1991. Restorations were done in 2009.
St. Ignatius Church is a Jesuit church completed in 1725. It was built as a single-nave Baroque church with a representative façade, modelled on the church of St. Ignatius in Rome. The design was made by the architect Andrea Pozzo. In 1885 an artificial grotto was erected in the church, dedicated to Our Lady of Lourdes, one of the oldest in Europe.
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