Zagreb Photo Safari

King Tomislav Statue

A beautiful park in the center of the city. The place is picturesque day and night, making it an ideal location for taking photos. The square is surrounded by stunning old buildings, which create a special atmosphere.

10 Minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Art Pavilion (Umjetnicki Paviljon)

Art pavilion - the oldest gallery in South-Eastern Europe. The building is decorated with busts of Croatian and foreign artists (Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian). We will also discover the most picturesque fountain in Zagreb in the park behind the Art Pavilion.

10 Minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Zrinjevac

This is a beautiful park that can be walked through or sat in and enjoyed. The park is roughly two blocks down from King Tomislav Square. Nikola Šubić Zrinski Square is a square and park in Donji Grad, the central part of Zagreb, the capital of Croatia. It is located near the central Ban Jelačić Square, halfway towards the Main Railway Station. It is a part of the Green horseshoe or Lenuci's horseshoe, which consists of seven squares in Donji Grad.

10 Minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Meteorological Post

The Meteorological Post at Zrinjevac built in 1 884 is a public meteorological station where many citizens and visitors can obtain information about temperature, humidity and air pressure in the centre of the town.

10 Minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Ban Josip Jelacic Square

Ban Josip Jelačić Square is the most popular square in Zagreb and a favorite meeting place for locals. This city center is dominated by a statue of the 19th-century governor of Croatia.

10 Minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Cathedral of Zagreb

This is a must see while you are in Zagreb. Still very picturesque from the outside. This cathedral's twin spires – seemingly permanently under repair – soar over the city. Formerly known as St Stephen’s, the cathedral has an original Gothic structure that's been transformed many times over. However, the sacristy still contains a cycle of frescoes dating from the 13th century. An earthquake in 1880 badly damaged the building, and reconstruction in a Neo-Gothic style began around the turn of the 20th century.

10 Minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Dolac Market

Dolac is a farmers' market located in Gornji Grad. Dolac is the most visited and the best known farmer's market in Zagreb. It is It is well known for its combination of a traditional open market with stalls and a sheltered market below. It is situated only a few dozen meters away from the main city square, Ban Jelačić Square, between the oldest parts of Zagreb, Gradec and Kaptol. The Dolac market Zagreb is centrally located right behind the town’s main square. The daily market, on a raised square a set of stairs up from Jelačić, has been the city’s major trading place since 1930. Farmers from surrounding villages come to sell their home-made foodstuffs and very fresh fruit and vegetables.

10 Minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Opatovina Park

Zagreb's Opatovina Park showed its new artistic face to rare passers-by. Murals by four Croatian artists appeared along the eastern walls of one of the most beautiful green areas of the city.

10 Minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Tkalciceva Street

Tkalčićeva Street is Zagreb main hub for cafes, restaurants and casual nightlife. Also known as Tkalča (Tkalcha), it features dozens of places where you will find something to your liking. Tkalčićeva is filled with life. Numerous boutiques, traditional shops, restaurants, cafes and outdoor events will fill your day. Once it was a stream that divided two oldest Zagreb settlements, Gradec and Kaptol. Because of contamination by all the shops, the stream was diverted. In the period 1899 to 1941, almost every house in Tkalčićeva street was a brothel. Because it is in the centre, all windows had to have opaque glass and red lanterns. For this reason, Zagreb was the first city in Europe with the proper red light district. Today Tkalciceva Street continues its century-old tradition of Zagreb craftsmen and traders and is one of the most attractive streets in the city.

10 Minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Mlinarske stube (The Mill stairs) connect Kožarska Street with Radićeva Street

10 Minutes • Admission Ticket Free

St. Mark's Church

A colourfully patterned tile roof makes this Catholic church one of the most distinctive buildings in Zagreb. Fires and an earthquake in 1880 destroyed most of the original 13th-century structure, but an ornate Gothic portal survives. Devotional sculptures and frescoes by leading Croatian artists adorn the interior.

10 Minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Porta di Pietra (Kamenita Vrata)

Stone Gate is the eastern gate to the medieval town and Zagreb’s most significant shrine. The only remaining entrance to Zagreb’s old fortifications. The Stone Gate is the only gate still standing today. It was built in the 13th century as one of four main gates leading to the town. Together with St. Mark’s church, it stands as a living testimony to past times and the free royal Gric city, a predecessor to Zagreb. Within the gate, you will find a shrine and stone slabs praising the Mother of God. The shrine of our lady of the Stone Gate houses the painting of the Mother of God. Which miraculously survived the 17th-century fire and is protected by an artistically forged iron fence.

15 Minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Lotrscak Tower

A 13th-century defense tower from which a cannon is shot every day to mark noon. ​Lotrščak tower is one of the landmarks of Zagreb. It is located in Gradec, next to the old town gate Dverce on the Strossmayer promenade. Together with the Stone Gate and the Pop Tower, it is considered the best preserved object of the city's defense system.

10 Minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Funicular Railway

Zagreb Funicular is not only the shortest funicular in the world but also the oldest and first means of public transportation in Zagreb. Spanning just 66 meters. It was built at the end of the 19th century

10 Minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Ilica

Ilica is one of the longest and oldest streets in Zagreb. It stretches from Ban Jelačić Square in the east through Črnomerac in the west of the city, all the way to Vrapče and has more than 500 addresses. Ilica is also the main shopping street in the city center, where there are banks and shops of the world's leading manufacturers of clothes and shoes.

10 Minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Square of Petar Preradovic

Petar Preradović Square Square in Zagreb, named after the revivalist great Petar Preradović Square. Among the people of Zagreb, it is more commonly known as Flower Square, because of the flower kiosks that are traditionally located there. The square is located in the very center of the city, about 200 meters from Ban Jelačić Square.

10 Minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb

The Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb is a drama, opera and ballet house with 3 ensembles. It stages annually at least 12 premieres, 20 repeat performances, and around 220 performances. It is the most significant theatre institution in Croatia, with a diverse repertoire and regular visiting performances on many foreign stages. The Croatian National Theatre's repertoire includes classics from abroad and from home, as well as contemporary works through which it establishes numerous contacts between cultures.

10 Minutes • Admission Ticket Free