This festive weekend of Christmas 2016 brought a very high increase in the number of arrivals and overnight stays in Dubrovnik.

As a video of the old town of Dubrovnik on December 18, 2015 shows the magic of the UNESCO World Heritage Site in the less fashionable winter month's, TCN's newest writer Ivana Šepak takes a look at the changing nature of Dubrovnik in December from a local viewpoint.