The paper offers a historical overview of the Summer Games, respectively it shows their formation from the year of its foundation to the present day. The history of the Games is described from an organizational, conceptual and festival point of view. The festival program is usually realized in three areas: drama, music and folklore, and the works are based on Dubrovnik literature from the baroque, renaissance and modern periods. The creativity and works of Marin Držić at the Games are presented in a separate chapter, considering that they represent the main feature of the entire festival program of the Games. Another distinguishing feature that makes the Games special is the ambience. This is the practice of performing festival performances in open natural and architectural spaces in Dubrovnik. The most famous ambient play, which is also one of the most successful performances in the history of the Games, is Shakespeare's „Hamlet" performed at Lovrijenac. The mentioned performance marked the peak of the festival program of the Games and made them famous abroad. The paper also shows the changes in the organization of the Games itself in later years, and the possibilities of introducing a festival program for children of early and preschool and school age. The goal of this paper is to contribute to raising awareness of the importance of nurturing and understanding the cultural heritage of the Dubrovnik region, and the starting point of the paper is that the Summer Games are one of the most valuable cultural achievements of the Dubrovnik region.