The main square divides the hilly Upper Town – museums, institutions of national importance, panoramic views – from the flat, grid-patterned streets of the Lower Town, with its gastronomic landmarks, designer boutiques and art galleries.
Take a tour of Mirogoj
A 15-minute journey from Kaptol, Mirogoj is also an architectural gem. Behind a series of green, onion-shaped cupolas, which cap ivy-covered brick walls, are tiled arcades, monuments to Croatia’s most prominent citizens.
Don't miss: The best time to visit is on All Souls’ Day, November 1, when everything is shrouded in a halo of candlelight.
Dander round the daily market
Farmer from surrounding village comes to sell their home-made foodstuffs, the freshest fruit and vegetables you willl ever taste.
Don't miss: In the covered market downstairs are butchers, fishmongers and old ladies selling the local speciality sir i vrhnje (cheese and cream). Flowers and lace are also widely available.
Admire great art at the MSU
What is it? The MCA – MSU in Croatian – is the most significant museum to open in Zagreb for more than a century. Its collection includes pieces from the 1920s and gathered since 1954 when Zagreb's original MCA (in Upper Town) was founded.
Why go? Croatia's exceptional 1950s era of abstract-geometric specialists (Ivan Picelj, Aleksandar Srnec, Vjenceslav Richter, Vlado Kristl) plays a featuring part within the collection, nearby photos and movies recording the more freakish tricks of incredible execution specialists like Tom Gotovac and Vlasta Delimar. The new-media and computer-art works produced by the Zagreb-based New Tendencies movement in the late '60s and early 70s reveals just how ahead-of-its-time much of Croatian art really was.
Don't miss: Of particular note are Carsten Höller's slides, similar to the 'Test Site' installation he built for Tate Modern's Turbine Hall but custom-made and site-specific for Zagreb – pieces of art patrons can ride to the parking lot.
Marvel at the Cathedral
If Zagreb has an iconic feature, it’s the twin towers of its Cathedral, created by Hermann Bollé after an earthquake struck the city in 1880.
The Cathedral is Zagreb’s most visible tourist attraction. Though much of the exterior has long been veiled behind construction sheathing, the neo-Gothic twin towers are visible over the city and are as close as Zagreb gets to a visual identity worthy of calling-card status. They were added by architect Hermann Bollé in the post-1880 rebuild, while the interior received neo-gothic altars, 19th-century stained glass, and a relief by Ivan Meštrović that marks the resting place of controversial Croatian Archbishop Alojzije Stepinac.
Don't miss: The statue of Christ by the Croatian sculptor Ivan Meštrović.
Browse Britanski trg
What is it? On Sundays the fruit and veg stalls that fill Britanski trg during the week are cleared away, and an attractive bric-a-brac and antique market is laid out.
Why go? In total, some 100 stallholders trade goods from first thing in the morning. Paintings, jewellery, old currency, badges, glass bottles, posters, crockery, silver, old farming tools and religious icons are all on display on wooden trestle tables. The morning is also a social occasion, locals gathering at nearby cafés such as Kava Tava to gossip and show off their purchases.
Don't miss: Look out for Yugoslavian film posters and original screen prints by Croatian graphic artists like Boris Bućan.
Go green at the Botanical Gardens
What is it? The Botanical Gardens form the east-west anchor of the ‘Green Horseshoe’, a U-shaped band of greenery laid out by Milan Lenuci in the 19th century. Approciate 10,000 plant species come mainly from Croatia, a few from as far as Asia.
Why go? Near but removed from the bustle of the train station, it offers a wonderfully relaxing way to escape with your travelling companion amid the plots, plants, footbridges, lakes and ponds.
Don't miss: The English-style arboretum, and containing rock gardens, lily-pad-covered ponds, symmetrical French-inspired flowerbeds and ten glasshouses.
Go underground at Grič
What is it? Opened as a tourist attraction in 2016, the 350-metre-long Grič tunnel once served the city in extremely different ways. Created as an air-raid shelter during World War II, it lay empty for decades until the earliest days of techno when hosted the seminal Under City Raves. Also in the 1990s, it again saw use as an air-raid shelter.
Why go? Accessed from Mesnička, the Grič tunnel has already put on fashion shows and exhibitions, and plans call for a Museum of the Senses to beset up here. For the time being, it provides an atmospheric however well lit 5-minute walk far below the most historic part of Zagreb.
Don't miss: The tunnel forms a part of the Advent festival when it's illuminated with swirls of sparkling Christmas lights.
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