Zagreb

Capital of Croatia, it is found at the feet of the mountainous reliefs of the Medvednica. In ancient times it was perhaps a Roman castrum. In the XI century became an archbishop on the will of the Hungarian king Ladislao the Saint. As a result of the mongol invasions, the city came to be fortified but for a long time remained a theatre of civil fights between bishops and bourgeoisie ending in XVI century.The top part of the city (Gornij Grad) is formed from the two medieval centers of Zagabria and Gradec.

Capital Zagreb View Enlarge

Its style is madieval european with a garden, a baroque, neoclassical and secessionistic palaces and frequently attended theatres between which we quote the National one.

The cultural life of Zagabria is very active so that beside the classic terms of artistic expression they have asserted also the cinematographic industry and a comic strip school.

Between monuments of greater importance, to the gothic dome of 1275 dedicated to Saint Stephan, restructured fully in the last century. Other gothic churches are those of Saint Mark, Saint Maria and Saint Francisco beyond to the archiepiscopal nail head. Monumental cemetary of Mirogoj the Zrinjevac garden and Maksimir park are also remarkable.

The most famous evening promenade is that of via Tkalciceva with many fashionable premises.
The bottom of the nineteenth-century city is rich with public buildings and is more modern as much has been reconstructed entirely after the earthquake of 1880.

Zagabria, today is the center of commercial trade with the dinarici ports of the Adriatic, Hungarian plains countries. It possesses a university and an academy of sciences and arts, with a beautiful picture gallery that contains works of the Tuscany school, umbra and veneta of the 15th & 16th centuries.