Our history
Captain Ćiro Carić & his Italian wife Donna Paola built this unique villa reflecting both Dubrovnik’s tradition and Austro-Hungarian architecture of the time. The villa was later purchased by an important Austrian architect who adapted it to life in the modern era while respecting its history.
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1890
Ćiro Carić gets his first taste of seamanship as an 8 year old boy on the schooner “Antun” sailing to north Africa.
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1898
Ćiro Carić sets sail on the nava “Deveron” around the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa.
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1915
Ćiro Carić completes his studies in the Nautical Academy of Trieste and becomes a professor of nautics.
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1919
Captain Carić marries Paola Bidoli in Rome and together they set sail to America, him as the captain and his new wife as his companion.
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1929
Now married, Captain Carić and donna Paola move to Dubrovnik and build the Villa Donna Paola
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2000
The Villa Donna Paola is purchased by an influential architect, at which point it undergoes its first refurbishmen.