Dubrovnik City Walls: Tickets, Prices, Entrances and Opening Hours

💡 The Short Version: The City Walls are €40 for an adult on visit dates from 7 to 30 November 2026 and €20 in December (DPDS webshop). They are open every day except 25 December, 09:00 to 15:00 from 1 November to 31 March (DPDS FAQ, Dubrovnik Pass), and the ticket is one tour only, with no re-entry. It also covers Fort Lovrjenac, the Western Outer Wall (closed December to February) and a coin collection on Gundulić Square. The walls are 1,940 m long, with entrances at Pile, the east end of Stradun and St John’s Fortress by the Old Port. Or book a tour: Dubrovnik: City Walls Early Morning or Sunset Walking Tourad (from €25, 4.8 stars from 1,873 reviews) puts a guide on the walls at the quietest hour of the day.

⚠️ One visit only. Once you step off the walls the ticket is finished, so decide where you will end the loop before you start. The Dubrovnik Pass has the same rule at every site.

Tickets and hours

Prices are on the Society of Friends of Dubrovnik Antiquities (DPDS) webshop, which runs the walls. Reservations are not needed, and a ticket bought online is saved on a phone or printed and activated at the entrance of the site you chose (DPDS FAQ). The price depends on the visit date you pick, not the day you buy.

Students show a valid student card at the gate (Croatian X-ica, ISIC or European Youth Card), veterans and holders of a disability card get a discount on production of the card, and residents of Dubrovnik-Neretva County show ID (DPDS FAQ).

The walls are open every day except 25 December, and the end of opening hours is also the last entry. The hours below are the ones the Dubrovnik Pass lists for the walls:

The ticket also includes free entry to:

• Fort Lovrjenac, the rock-top fortress west of Pile Gate (guide).
• The Western Outer Wall, which is closed in December, January and February.
• The Collection of Coins of the Republic of Ragusa, at Gundulić Square 6.

A fort-only Lovrjenac ticket is €15 on visit dates in November 2026 and €5 in December 2026. It gives adults a discount on a City Walls ticket bought afterwards, and all children aged 18 and under free entry to the walls on the same ticket (DPDS webshop). The reverse does not work: a Lovrjenac ticket bought first leaves you paying extra at the walls.

A bartizan on the walls by Pile Gate. Photo: Bernard Gagnon, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Tours and guided walks

The official ticket is the only way onto the walls: a guide does not replace it, so a tour is for the commentary and the timing, not the price. A guided walk makes sense when you want the story of the towers or an early start before the day’s crowds. Check each listing’s date options for what the price covers.

City walls at dawn or dusk

From €25 · 4.8 stars from 1,873 reviews · 2 hours · free cancellation

Dubrovnik: City Walls Early Morning or Sunset Walking Tourad: a two-hour guided walk timed for the early or late light, with a private option. Bookable up to 30 minutes ahead, which suits a day when you change plans.

Early-bird walls tour

From €25 · 4.9 stars from 643 reviews · 2 hours · free cancellation

Dubrovnik: City Wall Tour for Early Birds to beat the crowdsad: a two-hour walk timed to beat the crowds, per the listing’s title. A private option is available, and it needs booking 10 hours ahead.

Walls plus Old Town and Franciscan Monastery

From €28 · 4.8 stars from 2,526 reviews · 2.5 hours · free cancellation

Dubrovnik: City Walls, Old Town Walking Tour & Adriatic Viewad: the walls and the Old Town in one walk, with a visit to the Franciscan Monastery and its pharmacy and a skip-the-line entry in the listing. It suits a first morning when you want one guide for both. The pharmacy has its own guide.

Old Town and walls with an optional Dubrovnik Pass

From €27 · 4.8 stars from 83 reviews · 2.5 hours · free cancellation

Dubrovnik: Old Town and City Walls Tour with Optional DU Passad: a 2.5-hour guided Old Town and walls walk with the Dubrovnik Pass as an add-on, which makes sense if you will also use the museums. The pass itself is explained in the Dubrovnik Pass guide.

Official ticket or tour: the prices side by side

Operator prices are for an adult. A GetYourGuide “from” price is the cheapest option in the product.

The three entrances

The Dubrovnik Tourist Board lists three entrances to the walls:

1. Pile: next to the Church of St Saviour, opposite the Large Onofrio Fountain, just inside Pile Gate. This is the staircase DPDS describes as the main entrance, built in 1526 (DPDS).
2. East end of Stradun: next to St Luke’s Church, opposite the Dominican church.
3. St John’s Fortress: next to the Maritime Museum, by the Old Port.

Pick the entrance by where you want to finish: Pile is next to the bus stops and Stradun, and St John’s is beside the Old Port, where the boats to Lokrum leave. Libertas city buses end at Pile, and a single ticket on board is €2.50 (Libertas price list, details in getting around Dubrovnik).

Minčeta Tower, with Lovrjenac behind. Photo: Mariordo (Mario Roberto Durán Ortiz), Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Rules on the day

• Dogs are allowed on a lead, and larger dogs must wear a muzzle.
• Jumping, climbing, leaning over the edge and taking photos from the edge of the walls are banned, and so are fires, weapons and throwing rubbish onto the walls or into the sea.
• Children must be supervised by an adult at all times.
• DPDS advises water, a hat and sun cream, and checking the forecast before you go.
• Photography is allowed for private use only; commercial filming needs approval.
• DPDS says the sites are difficult for people with disabilities, because of the stairs, and offers a discount on presentation of a disability card.
• There is no organised transport between DPDS sites.

All of this is from the DPDS code of conduct and FAQ.

What you walk past

DPDS gives the walls as 1,940 m long, up to 25 m high in places and 4 to 6 m thick on the landward side, with sixteen towers. Their present size was set in the 13th century and the last bastion, St Stephen’s, was finished in 1660 (DPDS). The old city and its walls are on the UNESCO World Heritage List, inscribed in 1979 (UNESCO). The Tourist Board names the fortresses on the circuit:

• Minčeta: the highest fortress in the system, at the north-west corner. The Croatian flag flies on it all year.
• Bokar: at the south-west corner, facing Lovrjenac across the bay. It houses a collection of stone fragments.
• St John’s Fortress: in the south-east, guarding the harbour. The ground floor holds an aquarium and the upper floors the Maritime Museum, which has its own ticket (see the Rector’s Palace page for Dubrovnik Museums prices and days).
• Revelin: outside the east gate, joined to the city by a stone bridge. The Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra and the Summer Festival use it as a concert venue.

DPDS’s Western Outer Wall page also lists a 15th-century foundry beneath Minčeta, about 600 m², opened to the public in July 2017.

Bokar Fortress at the south-west corner. Photo: Ardfern, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Old Harbour and St John’s Fortress. Photo: Bernard Gagnon, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

For somewhere to sleep within walking distance of the gates, see where to stay in Dubrovnik.

What to see next

• Fort Lovrjenac: included in this ticket, and the walls’ neighbour on the Pile side.
• Dubrovnik Pass guide: the walls, Lovrjenac and the city museums on one pass, with the sums.
• Stradun and Old Town walk: the street the east and west entrances sit on.
• Game of Thrones locations: the walls were a King’s Landing location.
• Mount Srđ cable car: the view of the walls from above.
• Free things to do in Dubrovnik: the harbour, Porporela pier and the views that cost nothing.