History records little about how this famous city started. Some say it was refugees from Roman Epidaurus, a city nearby, who took shelter here after the destruction of their own town. Regardless, it seems that the first name for Dubrovnik came from the cliffs that overhang the blue sea, Lau, and the people who lived on them, the Lausi. Lausi became Rausi and so the city got its name that it bore for centuries, Ragusa. But Ragusa had another name as well, a name that the Slavic settlers of Dalmatia brought with them for the dark pine forests. Hemmed in as it is on the West by the warm Adriatic sea, on the west the mountains rise up sharply and the trees stand thick just beyond the walls. So from these forests it got its second name, derived from the Slavic word for forests, Dubrovnik. So Dubrovnik has a double history, not separate but intertwined. The sea, Roman and Italic culture, and the deep forests that line the mountain passes, the heritage of the Slavs. Bring the beauty and heritage of this city home with this limited art print.