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ska Plovidba, Dubrovačka Plovidba and Jugoslavenski Lloyd. There are also various foreign lines. Its main means of communication on the mainland is the narrow gauge railway to Mostar and Sarajevo and thence, via Brod or via Uzice to Belgrade. Tourists are recommended to take the UZice line, because it is much more picturesque. From Zagreb again there is a railway connexion with Zagreb via Brod, while there is also a way with autobus combined via Banjaluka: from Sarajevo to Banjaluka by train, from Banjluka to Jajce or Okučani by omnibus, and from Jajce or Okučani again by train. It is true that this second way is longer and more strenuous, but for the tourist it is more interesting. Apart from the railway, Dubrovnik is connected with its nearer and farther surroundings by regular omnibus lines and private cars. An airway line from Prague via SuSak is also planned and this would mean a great forward in connecting Dubrovnik with the world.

Propaganda in favour of Yugoslav tourism. Various tourist institutions at Dubrovnik such as the travel bureau »Putnik«, of the Dubrovnik municipality for promoting the tourist traffic, the agencies of the Jadranska and Dubrovnik steamship companies, the hotel and sundry other smaller agencies with their well thought out propaganda arouse a great interest in the visitors to go and see the neighbourhood of Dubrovnik. Many such excursions by land and by sea have become and established institution. Among the trips by sea the most usual is the visit to Lokrum, a small island opposite Dubrovnik, to Cavtat and to Boka Kotorska. Very popular are also the excursions by omnibus and luxurious motor-cars. Half-day excursions into the closer surroundings are: to Cavtat, famous for its lovely situation and the mausoleum of the family Račić executed by the great contemporary Yugoslav sculptor MeStrovi¢, to Trsteno, with its beautiful park of the old patrician family Gozze, to Trebinje, attractive on account of its Moslem character. There are also whole day excursions to Boka Kotorska, Cetinje, and back via Budva. This can be extended as far as the lake of Skadar and in this case it lasts two days. A two-days excursion to Mostar and Sarajevo can be extended via Jajce to Split and back to Dubrovnik, and in this case it lasts three days. Mostar and Sarajevo are very interesting for the visitor on account of their completely eastern character with many mosques and minarets. Here we still see fezes and veiled women which have disappeared in Turkey owing to the reforms of Kemal. Split is world-famous for its Palace of Diocletian.

Tradition, the geographic situation, the climate, hotels and means of cammunication have made of Dubrovnik the main point of attraction of Yugoslav tourism. A well planned propaganda which is there conducted for the whole country and well organized excursions into the neighbourhood have made it our most important tourist centre. It naturally follows that it is the duty of the state to preserve, and develop further, in the interest of our country, what in the course of a thousand years history has prepared, and nature, and private initiative completed.