Forty-one towers and seven bastions for five kilometers of walls, still almost intact today: this is the extraordinary historical heritage that the tiny village of Ston can boast, nestled between sea and hills along the road that on the Split-Dubrovnik coastal road leads to the Pelješac peninsula.
“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall,” said the US President Ronald Reagan, during his famous speech in Berlin in 1987.