24. Welcome to Dubrovnik - Turistička zajednica grada Dubrovnika

Dubrovnik – The City of Olympic Gold
7Medals Arrived
from London
When a foreigner enters
the City through the
Pile Gate he has to feel
the tranquillity of beauty and power,
the mood of calm, as if everything has
finally fallen into place, and it seems
that there’s nothing else for you to do
but rest in this world famous city of
Dubrovnik. However, the Dubrovnik
Gentlemen have to do penance too.
They are always under “eternal stress”,
thrown into the sea even before they
can walk, their first experience in waterpolo
is a sort of First Communion,
and life continues accompanied by the
threatening words of the local waterpolo
club Jug’s anthem Tres, tres, trese se, tko
u Juga dirne se!. There isn’t a man from
Dubrovnik who hasn’t experienced
water-polo, to put it jokingly, as a
childhood trauma, to say the least.
- Jug deserves the status of a water-polo
metropolis and Croatia should proudly
show Jug to the world. As a journalist
from Split my sports inspiration was
Hajduk. However, I have always felt
indebted to and respect for the tradition
and bastions of water-polo in Dubrovnik
and basketball in Zadar. This fanaticism
and passion carried down from
generation to generation actually result
in the matchless brand of Dubrovnik
water-polo with its guaranteed origin.
Every country would see in this
phenomenon not only interest but also
obligation; today, however - some ten
years after Mario Garber, a long time
sports journalist from Split, wrote of
it – things are even worse. How can one
58 Dobrodošli u Dubrovnik Zima 2012./13.