Zagreb Day 2

We thought we would walk to the Dolac Markets to shop for our dinner but when we got there nothing was open except stalls selling flowers. There would have been at least 50 stalls lining the street making it quite colourful and pretty. Ruby checked and realised it was All Souls Day and it was a public holiday. We settled into Dolac Bistro for dinner freshly made Burcek and coffee instead.

We then joined our first of 2 walking tours at 11am. This tour was done by an ex school teacher who was very informative, very energetic and politically left winged. She pointed out that Zagreb did not have a museum that reflected the conflicts and issues of the mid 1900s even though there were over 30 museums in Zagreb. She also added that on one occasion, she was dobbed by a Croatian eaves dropper and had the police interrupt her tour to question her. She still gave her political views in our tour but in a place quieterz secluded and away from the main square. The Cathedral of the Assumption of Virgin Mary has been under renovation for more than 20 years as the construction was with poor materials and every 150 years, Zagreb has an earthquake. The last one was in 2020.
She then pricked our curiosity and introduced a second waking tour that would shed light on the events of the mid 1900.
As we had missed the communist tour in Budapest, we decided to join this one at 3pm. This tour was even better than the first. The guide talked us through the political events from the Austrian Hungarian Empire to the 3 times that Yugoslavia was formed and highlighted the role of Radic, Pavlich and Tito's atrocities ending in the basement museum that the tour company had started. Quite revolutionary and very sad for the innocent lives loss and the people displaced.

Distance walked 13.2kmRead more