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1915) and Our Lady (Ivo Kerdic, 1926).
In the southern nave of the church, next to cannon-balls and halberds from the times of the wars with the Ottomans in 1571, is an icon from the 14th century, The Assumption (Vela Gospa) from the monastery in Badija.

Opposite of the cathedral is the deserted Arneri palace, built in the ornate Gothic style, with a nice Renaissance cloister.
Next to it is the Gabrielis palace, built in Renaissance style (16th c.), in which in 1957 the Town Museum was opened, with various exhibits related to shipbuilding, seafaring and stone-masonry of Korcula, and an art gallery.
Next to the cathedral is the Bishop's palace (Korcula was the diocesan seat from 1300 to 1828), built in the transitional Renaissance-Baroque style (17th c.), with the rich Abbey Treasury, established in 1954, which features liturgical vessels and mass vestments. Important is also the polyptych by Blaz Jurjev Trogiranin from 1431. On the small square is the Municipal Hall (ground floor with arcades from 1525, the first floor added to it in 1866).
Next to it is the chapel of Our Lady of Ploce, erected in 1531 to commemorate the battles of Aragonians and Venetians in front of Korcula in 1483. It houses the painting of Our Lady with a golden shroud from 1722 and two Venetian cannons. The tower Mali Revelin (Small Revelin) got its present aspect in 1499.
In front of the Municipal Hall is a pillar, erected in 1569, and opposite of the Hall the church of St. Michael (mentioned in 1408; restored in 1615) with a Renaissance pulpit; the painting on the Baroque marble altar is a work by Domenico Maggioto.

From the old part of the town of Korcula, the gate called Kopnena Vrata (Gate of the Mainland) (1650) leads trough Revelin, a monumental tower of a quadrangular ground-plan (1493-1496), to the bridge.
This is the beginning of the way along the former town ramparts. Following this way, one reaches the church of All Saints (beginning of the 15th c., later restored), with the coffered ceiling (painted by Tripo Kokolja around 1713), the polyptych of Our Lady the Co-redeemer by Blaz Jurjev Trogiranin (1438-1439) and the ciborium (15th c.) below which is the carved Baroque Pieta by Raphael Donner.
The church is connected with a hall which houses the Gallery of Icons, a painting of the local Renaissance school and a procession crucifix by Ivan Progonovic (15th c.).
In the northern part of the peninsula is the semicircular Tiepolo Tower, and on the western coast, at the brim of the pier, the Barbarigo Tower.

The western coastal way, along a small cove, leads to the Dominican monastery with the two-nave church of St. Nicholas the older nave was finished around 1505 and reconstructed in 1665.
The right nave features the altar palla The Martyrdom of St. Peter the Martyr (old copy of Tizian's painting), while the new nave houses the Baroque altar of St. Nicholas (1629). The monastery possesses a collection of works of art.

In the vicinity, on Cape Sveti Nikola (St. Nicholas), is the Memorial Museum of Maksimi-li-jan Vanka (1889-1963), opened in 1968 in a small summer mansion, which houses a collection of the artist's paintings, drawings, terracotta and various documents.
From the outskirts in front of the Gate of the Mainland the way leads to the Hober park and the fortress of St. Blaise, erected in 1813 by the English (Fort Wellington), on a hill which dominates above the town. In the outskirts called Biline is the classicist octagonal church of St. Justin.

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