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A torch-lit medieval town square: a town crier on a platform and councillors on the town hall steps.

Stop 5 of 5 · Leaders under pressure

The Council Hall

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  1. Historians agreeRagusa and the first quarantine, 1377

    Decades later, the port of Ragusa (today Dubrovnik) made new arrivals wait 30 days before entering. Other ports extended it to 40 days, quaranta giorni in Italian, which gave us the word quarantine.