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Croatia’s Game of Thrones Trail: Dubrovnik to Split

8 days

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Most fans plan around a single filming location and squeeze the rest of the trip in around it. This one gives the show’s two biggest Croatian backdrops equal weight: four nights in Dubrovnik and four in Split, enough time to walk every stretch of wall and every palace corridor the cameras ever used.

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For eight seasons, Dubrovnik and Split did double duty as some of television’s most recognizable fictional settings, and both cities still carry the marks of it if you know where to look. This trip splits its eight nights evenly between them, four in each, built around the specific streets, walls, and courtyards fans travel here to see.

Dubrovnik supplied the show with its most iconic backdrop: the Old Town’s limestone streets, its mile and a quarter of ramparts, and Fort Lovrijenac perched above the sea all appear across multiple seasons, and a private guided walk retraces the exact routes the production used, cross-referenced scene by scene. Split takes over from there, where Diocletian’s Palace, a 1,700-year-old Roman structure, supplied the vaulted basement sets used throughout the series’ run, along with several of its courtyards and colonnades.

Beyond the show, both cities carry history that the production leaned on rather than invented: walls that predate the cameras by six centuries in Dubrovnik, and a palace in Split built for a Roman emperor’s retirement long before it ever housed a fictional queen’s throne room. A half-day trip from Split to Klis Fortress, another recurring filming location, closes the trip with the view the show’s own cameras used.

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Day 1: Arrive in Dubrovnik

The trip opens inside the Old Town at The Pucic Palace, steps from Stradun, the limestone-paved main street that appears in the show’s establishing shots more than almost any other location in the series.

The evening is free for a first walk down it, past the Franciscan monastery and Onofrio’s Fountain, both visible in the background of several scenes, and a stop for a drink at one of the small bars tucked into the side alleys off the main street.
Day 2: The City Walls and Fort Lovrijenac

A full day tracing the mile and a quarter of city walls that ring the Old Town, climbing the ramparts near the Pile Gate and following them past St. John’s Fortress and the Minčeta Tower, whose round profile appears repeatedly across the series.

From there, the walk continues to Fort Lovrijenac, the clifftop fortress used throughout the show as one of its most recognizable strongholds, its stone walls up to twelve feet thick in places.

From the ramparts, it’s easy to pick out the rooftops and stairwells that turn up again and again across the show’s run, and the harbor below where several of the production’s boats were moored during filming.
Day 3: A Private Walk Through the Filming Locations

A private guide leads a scene-by-scene walk through the Old Town’s filming locations, from the staircases used for some of the show’s most pivotal confrontations to the narrow lanes used for chase sequences and processions.

The route passes through Gundulić Square, where the morning produce market sets up daily much as it would have during the show’s own filming breaks, and down toward the Jesuit Staircase, instantly recognizable to fans from one of the series’ most quoted scenes.

The guide points out which shots were filmed where, how camera angles disguised how compact the Old Town actually is, and which storefronts and doorways were dressed differently for the cameras than they appear today.
Day 4: Beyond the Show

A quieter day in the Old Town’s Baroque churches, Renaissance courtyards, and the Rector’s Palace, once the seat of government for the Republic of Ragusa, centuries before any of it appeared on screen.

The palace’s Gothic arcade and inner courtyard, built in the 15th century, now house a small museum covering the city’s maritime history, largely undisturbed by the crowds that gather elsewhere in the Old Town for photos.

The afternoon leaves room for the Dominican Monastery’s cloister, another quiet corner most fans of the show walk straight past.
Day 5: On to Split

The route moves north to Split, arriving at Diocletian’s Palace, built as a retirement residence for a Roman emperor around 300 AD and later repurposed by the production as the vaulted basement sets used throughout the series.

Unlike Dubrovnik’s Old Town, the palace is still a living neighborhood, with apartments, shops, and cafés built directly into the ancient stonework, so the transition from Roman ruin to film set to everyday city block happens within a few footsteps.
Day 6: Diocletian's Palace and the Cellars

A full day inside the palace, including the underground cellars used as some of the show’s most recognizable interior sets, their vaulted brick ceilings largely unchanged since Roman times, followed by the Peristyle square above, where costumed extras and film crews were a near-permanent fixture during the show’s production years.

The Cathedral of Saint Domnius, built into what was once the emperor’s mausoleum, sits at the square’s edge, its bell tower offering a view back down over the palace’s maze of alleyways.
Day 7: Klis Fortress

A half-day trip to Klis Fortress, a recurring filming location perched on a limestone ridge above Split, its walls dating back over a thousand years and reinforced across Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman-era rule.

The fortress’s long stone ramparts and multiple courtyards were used for several of the show’s exterior battle and city scenes, and the views across the valley below appear repeatedly in the show’s wider establishing shots.

A stop in the small village at the fortress’s base rounds out the visit, with a chance to see the ridge from below before heading back to Split.
Day 8: Depart from the Riva

A final morning along the Riva promenade before departure, coffee in hand as the ferries to Hvar and the outer islands come and go from the harbor, with the palace walls and the ridge above the city in view for one last time.

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