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Église Saint-Marc de Zagreb

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    • TravelerCroatia
      Day 4

      Zagreb Day 3.2

      April 29 in Croatia ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C

      After a wander we headed towards the upper town going through the medieval Stone Gate which has a Virgin Mary shrine and lots of candles to light for prayer (and plenty of people praying lighting candles). Then on to Church of St Mark which was very colorful and then down to the viewpoints over the city by Lotrščak Tower. We left the house late at 10 as we didn’t have that far to wander and wanted to be at the town by noon because they fire off a cannon every day at that time…and we got there at 10:50! All the wandering and over an hour early! So we sat and had a rest and enjoyed the views, then watched the cannon go off which was so much fun! When we go there a tour group can’t just after and the guide was all make sure you hold your phone with both hands as a lot of people drop them when it goes off! It will be loud! Have fun! Raymond and I were both filming…which is good as my camera was crazy when it went off as I jerked as it was a surprise even though I was expecting it! Luckily Raymond did a much better job capturing it! (Mine is the first video, Raymond better one is the second one!) Such an odd, fun stop! We were going to take the funicular down, the worlds shortest, just for fun, but it too was closed. Oh well we wandered down the stairs instead and headed off to lunch at this vegan restaurant where they make everything themselves with stuff they or other local farmers grow and it was delicious!! We had a pesto pasta, and it was called seitan cordon blue but it was seitan filled with smoked tofu and tomato with BBQ sauce served over Swiss chard and a pickled salad and omg this was so good. And so much food!! I don’t think I could have eaten all of the seitan myself as it was too much! But we had to try some desserts as well - a hazelnut, vanilla, chocolate layered pudding and a raspberry tart - so tasty!! The food here has been so good!!Read more

    • vAUwEZagreb im Advent / Kroatien
      Day 2

      Zagreb's Oberstadt: Gornji Grad

      December 9, 2023 in Croatia ⋅ ☁️ 1 °C

      Zagreb's Oberstadt "Gronji Grad" ist der älteste Teil von Zagreb, der aus einem Netzwerk von Kopfstein gepflasterten Straßen besteht. Es liegt etwas erhöht von der Unterstadt. Hier findet man viele Restaurants, Cafés und Bars.
      Sehenswürdigkeiten gibt's ebenfalls stark gebündelt, so dass man keine weiten Wege laufen muss.
      Los geht's wieder am "Ban Jelacica Platz" in der Unterstadt. Über die Ilica Straße kommt man zur stadtbekannten Standseilbahn, die einen bequem und kostengünstig (knapp 1 €) in die Oberstadt bringt. Die Anlage ist mit einer Länge von 66 m und 33,5 Höhenmeter weltweit einer der kürzesten öffentlichen Standseilbahnen der Welt 👍.
      Alle "Sportiven" können auch die Treppe entlang der Seilbahn nutzen. Oben angekommen, befindet man sich direkt an der Strossmeyer Promenade und am "Lotrscak-Turm" mit Aussicht auf die Unterstadt und Umgebung - vorausgesetzt das Wetter ist prima, leider nicht während unseres Aufenthaltes.
      Nach ca. 200 m erreicht man die "St.-Markus-Kirche" mit ihren bunten Dachziegeln, die das Wappen der Stadt Zagreb und die des Königreichs Kroatien, Slawonien und Dalmatien abbilden. Das Innere der Kirche bleibt uns verborgen, da alles großräumig abgesperrt ist.
      Weiter geht's rechts zum mittelalterlichen "Steineren Tor", in dem ein Marienschrein zu sehen ist. Man kommt letztendlich an der "Ulica Pavla Radica" heraus, die für ihre vielen Restaurants, Cafés und Bars bekannt ist. Im Sommer muss das der Knaller sein 👍.
      Über kleine Nebenstraßen und Gassen geht es zum "Dolac-Markt", auf dem frische Ware wie Gemüse, Obst und Fisch angeboten wird. Zur imposanten "Kathedrale von Zagreb" ist es nur ein Katzensprung. Jedoch ist diese wegen Renovierungsarbeiten geschlossen und weiträumig abgeriegelt. Schuld ist ein Erdbeben aus dem Jahr 2020, das die Kathedrale stark beschädigte. Ein Turm stürzte ein und zog das Dach in Mitleidenschaft.

      Die Oberstadt hat wirklich Charm. Die verkehrsberuhigten Straßen mit den vielen Kneipen und Restaurants haben ihren Reiz. Auch die Kathedrale ist eine Augenweide. - spätestens dann, wenn alles wieder fertig renoviert ist!      Read more

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    • TravelerVienna & Croatia
      Day 38

      New Year's Day

      January 1 in Croatia ⋅ ☁️ 8 °C

      Hello first day of 2024!

      Zagreb took this day seriously with no shops open so we could not resupply our groceries. Mid morning we headed out into town to locate the attractions of note as per the guidebook in the apartment. There is a canon fired at mid day every day which we heard but didrsee as we walked into town.

      As we hit the main square we could hear marching drums, and just as we arrived we had a great view of a small group of military looking personnel with a few of them on horses. I later looked this up to find this was the Crabat Regiment which was a 17th century soldiers parade where they change the guard. These days only performed on weekends and three other days throughout the year of which New Year's Day is one of them. We found the Dolac farmers market but it was closed today.

      We then walked up to the old town to see St Mark's Church, with this old town nothing like the ones we have seen everywhere else. To enter we passed through the only remaining stone gate entrance to the old town built in 1266. There is a tiny little chapel built into it with a few church pews off to the side.

      Zagreb has been a weird mix of new construction, loads of old buildings virtually shrink wrapped as though something is happening to it, and most other buildings in a state of disrepair and in urgent need of significant maintenance, and covered in graffiti at street level. It looks drab, and grey and uninviting, not charming like the other places in Europe we have been to. Kind of like a poor man's Vienna. That said, there are so many online reviews saying how great it is and their reasons relate to aspects we are not seeing now because it is winter.

      After lunch in the main restaurant and coffee bar strip, we were so cold we all came home to warm up. There is a weather station in the park down the road which has been maintained since the 1800s. It told us it was 7° on our way home, but definitely felt a lot colder. I came home and got straight into bed under the doona to warm up, for several hours!      Read more

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