ZAGREB
Zagreb is a capital of Croatia. It lies on the crossroads of important routes between the Adriatic coast and Central Europe. Zagreb has it’s own airport Pleso.
Zagreb as a city has Baroque ambience of the Gornji Grad, charming markets, various shopping facilities, as well as choice of various small and larger restaurants and hotels.
Zagreb is a city of green parks and walks, with many places to visit. Zagreb still keeps its charm, and a athmosfere that makes it a unique city.
Zagreb has rich historical and cultural heritage that has roots in Central European urban culture, enriched by Mediterrean and Balkan traditions.
The city population is about one million. It has good public transport, clean streets and squares, well kept parks, twenty theatres and over forty museums and galleries Its numerous neo-classical buildings, spacious boulevards and squares reminds one of Vienna.
Zagreb city centre consists of four districts: Trg Bana Jelacica - Zagreb’s main square, Kaptol and Gornji Grad with it's hilly location in the center with cathedral and government’s buildings, Gradec with it's charming squares and leafy streets and Donji grad -a busy business centre of Zagreb.
Arrival and Departure in Zagreb: Zagreb Airport , Zagreb Tram, Bus to Airport ;
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Includes photos of Trg Josipa Bana Jelacica, Winter in Zagreb , Zagreb Airport Pleso , Flying over Zagreb, Zagreb Map, Panoramas, Tramvaj in Zagreb , Old Photos of Zagreb , Advertising Billboards in Zagreb , Donji Grad (Lower Town) , Gornji Grad (Upper Town), Graffiti , Novi Zagreb , Open Air Market , People in Zagreb , Ilica - the main street , Restaurants and Cafes and more..
Queer Zagreb Festival 2009Queer Zagreb, festival which hosted so far some of the biggest figures of contemporary dance expression, controversial video projections, motivated discussions and artistic considerations is set to take place from 5th to 10th of May in Zagreb.
‘Queer Zagreb festival contributes each year to the cultural and social diversity of Croatia, as the program attracts wide audiences [...]
Zagreb: Days of Croatian Film 2009Days of Croatian Film Festival is opened today and will last until 23rd March 2009.
The venue is Student Centre Cinemas in Croatian capital - Zagreb.
The festival promoted the latest production of cinematography from Croatia.
The selection includes feature films, documentaries, animations, experimental and short films.
Click here to see complete programme of the festival.
CroTour - 2nd International Tourism Fair, ZagrebThe International Tourism Fair Crotour 2009 will take place at Zagreb at 'Zagrebacki velesajam' from 1st to 5th of April, with intention to introduce foreign tour operators to offers of tourist services of Croatia.
The fair is intended for tour operators, owners of hotel , restaurants, marinas, campsites and other tourist facilities, as well as everyone else [...]
5th ZagrebDox Festival OpenedThe 5th ZagrebDox, an international documentary film festival, opened its door on Monday in Zagreb to all documentary fans and is still running until 01.03.09
The Festival was officially opened with the screening of Pinuccio Lovero A Midsummer Death’s Dream, a documentary about a frustrated undertaker who is having a tough time because none of his [...]
Zagreb Dox 2009 International Documentary Film FestivalZagrebDox, an international documentary film festival is taking place in Zagreb from February 23rd to March 1st.
The festival has three programs - the Regional Competition, the International Competition and the Documentary and Other program.
At the festival that is celebrating its fifth birthday, the audience will have a chance to see over 120 contemporary documentary films, among which will [...]
Flights to Zagreb, Split and Dubrovnik from Denmark, Finland and NorwayDirect flights to Croatia will be introduced to better connect Nordic countries with Croatian Adriatic resorts in the forthcoming tourist season, travel agencies said at Denmark's largest tourist fair FERIE 2009, which was closing on Sunday.
Copenhagen, Oslo and Helsinki will be connected with Split and Dubrovnik by direct flights during the summer season.
Norwegian low-budget airline [...]
Croatian Family AdventueIn today's Telegraph , Croatia is reviewed as family holiday destination for adventure holiday with teenagers. This is an excpert from the article:
.. we handcrafted a holiday that offered all the elements they (teenagers) were after, albeit not in quite the same configuration. We would be providing them with a foreign location (Croatia), sunshine (temperatures in the mid-30sC), an [...]
Adriatic closer to visitorsThe motorway network in Croatia is becoming longer and longer, so it is now safe to say that this is a country having one of the most developed road infrastructures in Europe.
The construction of the remaining 14.5-kilometer-long sections of the Zagreb-Rijeka Motorway contributed to this. Last October, the construction of the full profile of the motorway [...]
Zagreb: Snow Queen Trophy 2009 For the fifth time in a row, Zagreb will be the host to the best slalom women skiers of the world, while the competition for men skiers will be held for the second time.
The competitions will be held on Sljeme, the highest point of Mount Medvednica during the night.
Women’s slalom at the Audi FIS World [...]
Congress Centre at Hotel Antunovic ZagrebThe Hotel Antunović Zagreb, officially a four-star establishment with five-star service quality, includes a newly opened congress center with as many as 20 superbly equipped halls which extend over 2,500 square meters.
The biggest hall located on the first floor, can seat up to 1000 people. There are also some 20 newly opened smaller rooms suitable [...]
Vuglec Breg - A New Tourist Complex Within Reach of Zagreb : A tourist complex, the Vuglec Breg Hotel & Resort, is to be opened soon in the village of Škaricevo, with about forty kilometres from Zagreb and in within reach of Krapinske toplice. The overall area of the complex, scheduled for opening at the end of May of this year, extends over 130,000 square metres. It will feature eight buildings, restored in the traditional spirit and in keeping the standards of top-notch tourism. read more...
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 ZAGREB: A CULTURAL AND LITERARY HISTORY by Celia Hawkesworth, Foreword by Sonia Wild Bićanić: Situated at the foot of a range of hills on the edge of the great Pannonian Plain, for most of its history Zagreb has been a small town to which things happened. Administered from 1102 by Hungary and later absorbed into the Habsburg Monarchy, Zagreb was under threat from the advancing Ottomans until the late sixteenth century. In 1918 the Croatian lands joined their immediate South Slav neighbours in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, later renamed Yugoslavia. Following Yugoslavia’s violent collapse, in 1991 Zagreb became the capital city of the new independent Croatia... read more
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