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Here we are. The sculpture behind us stands for Croatian history, and we are in front of the University building for the Law department.
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This shot has the statue of Tomislav, the Arts Pavilion, and the twin spires of St.Stephen's Cathedral. |
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The National Theatre - lovely building, and it has an underground passage to a large ballet school across the street, which sounds handy to my mind.
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The Mimara Museum is filled with world-class international art treasures, but I didn't go in since I was more interested in Croatian-specific things. Sometime when I'm in town for more than two days, perhaps. |
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A favorite sight - St.Mark's Church. The coat of arms on the left is for Croatia and the right one (the castle) is for Zagreb itself. Though now, the signature color for Zagreb is blue, and Zagreb has a blue flag with this castle on it.
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Zagreb's biggest outdoor daily market and the cathedral spires. Inside the cathedral is an inscription in an alphabet I never saw before, which Igor explained was used for a while in Croatian. I looked this up, and it's known as the Glagolitic alphabet (or Hrvatska Glagoljica), and no, it's not the same as Cyrillic at all. Croatian today uses the Roman alphabet. |
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One of the main squares in town. |
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The trams people use to get around - in signature Zagreb blue. |
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My souvenir - a copy of a stone fragment I saw in an archeological museum from Roman times, proclaiming something in Latin about the Croatian Prince Branimir in the year 888
(Branimir Dux Croatorum). The braided patterns are typical of Croatian stone artifacts, and I really like the writing (hvala, Igor!). | |
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Up above the city at Medvedgrad ('bear castle,' from the 13th century) they have built the Altar of the Homeland, dedicated to everyone who has died for the freedom of Croatia. It is laid out to be remniscent of the checkered field of the Croatian coat of arms.
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