The Dominican monastery and church are religious sites in the city of Dubrovnik.They are located in the eastern part of the old town along the city walls. The Dominicans founded a monastery in Dubrovnik in 1225. It is a complex of buildings, among which are the church of St. Dominica, bell tower, cloister and three monastery wings. It has not been determined with certainty when the construction began, some data date back to the 13th century. At the beginning it was outside the city walls, but because of its defensive importance, the Small Council in 1301 decided that the people's construction would help them financially and with their work. Inside the monastery is also the work of a Venetian master, Paolo Veneziano. The Monastery Museum contains valuable manuscripts and 217 incunabulae, paintings by 15th and 16th century painters from Dubrovnik: Lovro Dobričević, Mihajlo Hamzić and Nikola Božidarević, and the altar palace "St. Magdalena", the work of the famous Italian painter Titian from 1550. The church is one of the largest Gothic buildings on the eastern Adriatic coast. The designs were made by Michelozzo di Bartolomeo and the construction was led by the masters of Dubrovnik Utešimović, Radomanović et al.