Dubrovnik - famous walled city. Also a World Heritage Site. See whc.unesco.org/en/list/95.Red roofs. Bombed heavily by Serbia during the wars, now restored. There can be no full recovery of the destruction of actual original heritage sites, however. There remains a botox quality to the reconstructions.
And regular people living there. Here is some street soccer, seen from the city walls.An ideal 8-day trip would be to fly into Dubrovnik, drive around the walled cities immediately up the coast and back, then do two days in Montenegro to see the spectacular mountains. Take the ferry to Korcula sometime in between. Croatia also has mountains, but they are a barer rock than in Montenegro, with all the deforestation (thank you, Venice and others, who conveniently ravaged Croatia to build your fleets with Croatian timber. Overview of Dubrovnik - see www.visit-croatia.co.uk/dubrovnik/.
Dubrovnik was heavily bombarded during the 1990's Balkan wars, but is largely and well reconstructed. It is not like Germany, where the reconstructions are easily visible because of inelasticity. In Dubrovnik, for example, they used old techniques and reusable stone. Then again, they did not have an entire country the size of Germany to rebuild.
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