From an overlooked cultural gem to a world-famous summer destination in only a small number of years, Dubrovnik is the city that best represents Croatia internationally right now: It’s become synonymous with ‘King’s Landing’ among Game of Thrones fans, and it seems to be on every Europe-bound traveler’s bucket list lately… result? The biggest crowds …

Very few countries have had such a successful trajectory in recent decades as Croatia has. Previously a part of Yugoslavia, a communist-leaning federation that also comprised Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and a number of other South Slavic states in Southeastern Europe, it re-emerged from this dark era a more open, incredibly Westernized state. Year …