Zagreb Things to Do

part two of my tips with more pictures around the square. Trg bana Josipa Jelaèiæa or Ban Jelaèiæ Square is the largest Square in Zagreb and is located at the boundaries of Upper Town and Lower Town....

just a stone's throw away from my hotel Westin Zagreb is a large Austro-Hungarian Palace Like Structure which is now the Croatian National Theatre (HNK) in Zagreb. The theater was in 1985 when Croatia...

The Cathedral was first built around 1217 and destoyed by the Mongols in 1242 and a few years later restored. The Ottomans did build a fortification around the church, partly still there. In 1880 the...

Gornji Grad is also known as the medieval center of Zagreb and is the Hill and is also known as Upper Town, situated along the Gornji Grad Hill and is also known as Medvešèak in Croatian Language. It...

Jarun is Zagreb's sporting and recreational centre. Here you can rollerblade, cycle and walk along the tracks that surround around the lakes. You can also swim, row, sail, cable ski or even go fishing...

unlike the Dornji Grad (Upper town) where you can do a walking tour around the Kaptol and Gradec Areas, the Lower town or the Downtown area of Zagreb is not conducive to a walking tour as the...

The huge Mirogoj cemetery, with its shady, tree-lined pathways, was first laid out in 1876 and not completed until 1929. It provided, and provides, a burial ground for all the city's residents...

Occupying the middle part of Saint Mark Square (Trg Svetog Marka) is the Old Parish Church of Gradec which is called Saint Mark's Church ((Crkva sv. Marka) which was made in the early 13th century on...

Lying at the Boundary of the Upper Town and Lower Town and connected to the Jelacic Square is the famous Dolac Market, which is the main market of the old town and was since 1926 the main trading and...

Strossmayerovo šetalište (strossmayer promenade) connects the viewing area behind Saint Catherine Church to the Funicular Ride going down to Lower Town (or the winding footpath leading back to lower...

the Stone Gate (Kamenita vrata) the only preserved stone gate in Zagreb and leads to the entrance to Gradec Area of Upper Town and is also known for the Virgin Mary Statue. The gate was made in the...

the lower town of Zagreb has quite a number of squares and one of the ones popular for locals is the Trg kralja Tomislava (KingTomislav Square) near the Zrinjevac Park. The Square was dedicated for a...

the Kaptol area of Upper town was founded in 1094 when Hungarian and Croatian King and Saint Ladislaus I initially built a church in the upper town and the walls around it were just wooden palisades...

Zrinjevac, or Nikola Subic Zrinski Square, Zagreb's best-known public garden, is a romantic promenade and a recurring motif in the works of photographers, painters and poets. So, should you wish to...

Popular street day and night in downtown (Upper Town) is very nice attraction in Zagreb. Tkalčićeva Street (Croatian: Tkalčićeva ulica) is located in the vicinity of the central...

the former Jesuit Monastery Beside the The St. Catherine's Church (Crkva sv. Katarine) is now the Kloviæevi dvori art gallery since 1982 and is one of the many museums and art galleries found along...

along the southern end of the Gradec area of Upper Town, located along the Strossmayer promenade and beside the zakmardijeve stube going back to lower town is a famous 13th century tower that guards...

The park is some 316 hectares and has been surrounded by the city. There are woods and many other features to see; there are historic buildings and of course the zoo. It was fairly dry and the sun...

As with many of my trips outside of the UK, I make an effort to visit the local Zoo. Some are good, some not so good and some are trying very hard to make a great experience for both animals and...

I really wasn't in the mood to walk a long distance uphill in the heat (mid-30s C) so taking the funicular up to Gradec made perfect sense to me. A one-way trip cost me 5 kuna in August 2015, paying...

Only takes 15 or so minutes, Start at the statue of King Tomislav and passes through a couple of pleasant parks for a lazy few minutes, past the statue of Strossmayer and finally admire the...

like what I've said, Zagreb hosts quite a number of museums and one of the popular ones in lower town is the Art Pavilion Zagreb (Umjetnièki paviljon u Zagreb), located at the northern part of King...

Zagreb is really a City of Museums and there are lots of kinds of Museums in the City like the Museum of Contemporary Art, the City Museum, Museum of Naiive Art, Museum of Broken Relationships and the...

The other prong of the green horseshoe stretches from the state archives - a beautiful building with owls on its roof. This is on Trg Marka Marulica. The green area also covers Trg Antuna, Ivana i...

A bit of a disappointment that a capital city has such a rundown botanic garden that being mentioned it has some nice flowers in-between and a little corner that was nice providing shade and benches...