Lokrum

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  (From http://www.dubrovnik-guide.net/lokrum.htm) "Also known as the island of kings, Lokrum has its first writing mention in 1023 as the Benedictine abbey and monastery are founded. According to legend, Richard the Lion-heart shipwrecked in 1192 after returning home from the crusades and found himself cast ashore, safe on Lokrum, and he pledged to build a church on the island indebted for the salvation but at the plea of Dubrovnik citizens, the church was not built on Lokrum but in The City instead"

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