Zagreb travel guide

Top 10 sights in Zagreb

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   Zagreb Cathedral

   A cathedral founded in 1093 and rebuilt repeatedly, its twin neo-Gothic spires added after the 1880 earthquake. The earthquake of March 2020 snapped the top off the south spire, and the building has been under scaffolding since.

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   St. Mark's Church in Zagreb

   Church in Zagreb of the thirteenth century, on the square of the same name. Its tiled roof of 1880 carries the arms of Croatia, Dalmatia and Slavonia beside those of the city.

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   Museum of Broken Relationships

   A museum built entirely from objects that people donated after breakups, each with the donor's own note explaining it — an axe, a wedding dress, a prosthetic leg. It began as a travelling installation in 2006, won a European museum award, and has been copied worldwide.

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   Ban Jelačić Square

   The main square, named after the nineteenth-century ban who abolished serfdom in Croatia, with his equestrian statue in the middle. The Manduševac spring at one corner is the well the city grew around and is now a fountain.

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   Zagreb Zoo

   A zoo of 1925 inside Maksimir park, on seven hectares, and one of only three in Croatia. It takes part in European breeding programmes and has been rebuilt in stages away from cages.

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   St. Mark's Square

   The square at the heart of the Upper Town, with St Mark's Church and its tiled coat-of-arms roof in the middle. The Croatian government sits in the Banski dvori on one side and parliament in the Sabor palace on the other, with museums filling the streets around.

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   Medvedgrad

   A thirteenth-century fortified town on the slope of Medvednica, ten kilometres above Zagreb, excavated and partly rebuilt in the 1990s. The Altar of the Homeland, an eternal flame for the Croatian war dead, was placed below it in 1994.

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   Mimara Museum

   A museum opened in 1987 to hold some three thousand seven hundred works given to Croatia by the collector Ante Topić Mimara — Egyptian to Impressionist. The provenance of parts of the collection has been questioned, which is part of its story.

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   Croatian Museum of Naïve Art

   A museum devoted to twentieth-century naïve painting, above all the Hlebine school — Croatian peasant painters who worked in oil on the back of glass and were taken up by the international art world from the 1930s.

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    Zagreb Synagogue

    A Moorish revival synagogue of 1867, modelled on the one in Vienna's Leopoldstadt, and the largest in Croatia. The Ustaša regime demolished it in 1941; the site is still an empty lot, and what should be built there has been argued about for eighty years.

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   Meštrović Pavilion

   A cultural venue in Zagreb designed by Ivan Meštrović and built in 1938, now used by the Croatian Association of Fine Artists. It was an art gallery before the war, a mosque under the Independent State of Croatia, and the Museum of the Revolution in postwar Yugoslavia, which is why it is still called the Džamija.

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   Lotrščak Tower

   A thirteenth-century tower in the Upper Town, part of the original fortifications. A cannon has been fired from it at noon every day since 1877 — a habit that began as a time signal and now keeps the whole city's clocks honest.

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   Andautonia

   A Roman settlement at the village of Šćitarjevo on the south bank of the Sava southeast of Zagreb. It lay in the province of Pannonia on the road between Poetovio and Siscia.

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   Nikola Tesla Technical Museum

   A technical museum holding a working planetarium, a mine gallery dug under the building, and a demonstration room where Tesla's coils and alternating-current apparatus are switched on for visitors several times a day.

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   Kaptol

   A historic quarter in the upper town of Zagreb, the centre of the archdiocese and the seat of the archbishop. Zagreb Cathedral stands over it.

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   Maksimir Park

   A historic park of 316 hectares east of Zagreb, the oldest and largest green space in the city. Gardens, woodland, meadows and five artificial lakes have earned it the name of Zagreb's Hyde Park, and it is named after Bishop Maksimilijan Vrhovac, who laid it out.

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   Art Pavilion in Zagreb

   An exhibition pavilion of 1898 whose iron frame was built for the Hungarian millennial exhibition in Budapest, then dismantled and shipped to Zagreb — a prefabricated gallery moved between countries. It shows temporary exhibitions only.

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   Republic of Croatia Square

   A large square in the lower town of Zagreb with the Croatian National Theatre standing in the middle of it. It is sometimes called the most beautiful square in the city.

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   Croatian Museum of Contemporary Art

   The largest museum built in Croatia, opened in 2009 on the southern edge of the city, holding some twelve thousand works of contemporary art. Carsten Höller's steel slide runs from the top floor to the ground and visitors are encouraged to use it.

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    Croatian Natural History Museum

    The oldest and largest natural history museum in Croatia, founded in 1846, holding over two million specimens. Its most important material is from Krapina — one of the largest and earliest-studied Neanderthal assemblages in the world, excavated from 1899.

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