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lumbering up and down the hill, tethering the Old Town to Port Gruž and the Lapad resort
zone.
Carry on through the guard tower and along the wall, climbing uphill again. Looking to
the wall ahead of you, notice that—after we passed along a straighter, lower stretch—this
wall is scampering up a mighty foundation of solid rock. We've left the canal that once sep-
arated the two parts of Dubrovnik, and now we're ascending what used to be a separate,
very steep, rocky island.
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Fort of St. Lawrence,
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with these stout walls to make Dubrovnik virtually impenetrable. (That fort is also climb-
