The Austrian Arch-duke Maximilian once had a holiday home on the island. A monastery and a botanical garden survive from Maximilian's era.

The island is overlooked by a Napoleanic fort.

Lokrum island is situated ten minutes by taxi boat from the old port of red-roofed town of Dubrovnik. Lokrum is honoured as one of Croatia's national parks and home to one of the country's premier nudist beaches. naturist beach on the easternmost point of the island of Lokrum, can be reached by boat from the Dubrovnik port

The island of Lokrum is a nature park with exotic tropical and subtropical plants and a unique botanical garden.The best bet is to catch one of the boats from the old city jetty (May-Oct 9am-6pm, every 30min, journey time 10min; 15kn return). Reputedly the island where Richard the Lionheart was shipwrecked, Lokrum is crisscrossed by shady paths overhung by pines. Extensive rocky beaches run along the eastern end of the island, and there's a nudist section (FKK) at the far eastern tip.