In organising this year’s Discovering Dalmatia conference, the ninth in this series of annual events in research and scholarship, we were inspired by a specific question: How to explore a specifically female view of the artistic heritage of Dalmatia through books, documents (letters, manuscripts, diaries, drawings, photographs), and works of art from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries? The beginning of the answer to this question was made in the creation of a chronogeographic database of “Grand Tourism” in Dalmatia, as part of the Grand Tour Dalmatia project (Croatian Science Foundation), through which numerous travelogues about Dalmatia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were collected and classified. The range of travelogues written by women that was mapped by the database indicates that these are very relevant materials that deserve to be collected and studied in greater detail and across a wider time span. As a result, we proposed the creation of a special subcategory of women’s travel writing in the database. The significance of women’s travel narratives in this region – geographically located on the border of East and West, where Christian and Islamic cultures touched and created a rich artistic heritage – can thus become the focus of interdisciplinary travel writing research for the first time. We approach the travelogue as a genre for collecting and conveying information about other cultures, testing it as a genre of female emancipation, and exploring the scope of female expertise in this field. Focusing on trips to Dalmatia (but not exclusively so), this gathering considers the specificity of women’s views of the artistic heritage of Dalmatia through case studies.