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Location: Central Croatia
Zagreb is the capital and the largest city in Croatia in addition, it is the scientific and economic center of the Republic of Croatia. According to the municipality of the city, the population of Zagreb in 2011 was 790,017 according to the Croatian statistics office. Zagreb is located between Mount Medvednica and the river Sava. Its favorable geographic position in the southeast of Panonia, which extends towards the Alpine area, the Dinaric Alps, the Adriatic and the Pannonian regions, gives it a perfect connection with Central Europe and the Adriatic Sea. In Zagreb is the seat of government of the country and almost all the ministries of the Croatian government.
Kaptol 9
Tel. (01) 481 1125
Open: 7am- 12pm, 3- 7pm daily
Church of Saint Mark (Zagreb)Markov trg Tel. (01) 485 1611
Parliament Building (Zagreb)Markov trg Tel. (01) 456 9607
Viceroy's Palace (Zagreb)Markov trg Tel. (01) 456 9222 Open by appointment
Croatian History Museum (Zagreb)Matoseva ulica 9 Tel. (01) 485 1900 Open: 10am- 6pm Mon- Fri, 10am- 1pm Sat and Sun
City Museum (Zagreb)Opaticka ulica 20 Tel. (01) 485 1361 Open: 10am- 6pm Tue- Fri, 11am- 7pm Sat, 10am- 2pm Sun
Croatian Natural History Museum (Zagreb)Demetrova 1 Tel. (01) 485 1700 Open: 10am- 5pm Tue- Fri, 10am- 8pm Thu, 10am- 7pm Sat, 10am- 1pm Sun
Mestrovic Atelier (Zagreb)Mletacka 8 Tel. (01) 485 1123 Open: 10am- 6pm Tue- Fri, 10am- 2pm Sat and Sun
Croatian National Theatre (Zagreb)Trg Marsala Tita 15 Tel. (01) 488 8418 Open for performances Closed for public holidays
Museum of Arts and Crafts (Zagreb)Trg Marsala Tita 10 Tel. (01) 488 2111 Open: 11am- 7pm Tue- Fri, 11am- 2pm Sat and Sun
Mimara Museum (Zagreb)Rooseveltov trg 5 Tel. (01) 482 8100 Open: Oct- Jun 10am- 5pm Tue, Wed, Fri, Sat, 10am- 7pm Thu, 10am- 2pm Sun Jul- Sept: 10am- 7pm Tue- Fri, 10am- 5pm Sat, 10am- 2pm Sun Closed: Mondays
Ethnographic Museum (Zagreb)Mazuranicev trg 14 Tel. (01) 482 6220 Open: 10am- 8pm Tue- Sun Closed: Mondays, public holidays
Botanical Garden of the Faculty of Science (Zagreb)Marulicev trg 9a Tel. (01) 489 8060 Open: Apr- Oct 9am- 2:30pm Mon, Tue, 9am- 7pm Wed- Sun
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Church of Saint Mary (Zagreb)Dolac 2 Tel. (01) 481 4959 Open for mass service Gallery of Old Masters (Zagreb) Trg Nikole Subica Zrinskog 11 Tel (01) 489 5117 Open: 10am- 7pm Tue, 10am- 4pm Wed- Fri, 10am- 1pm Sat and Sun
Croatian Museum of Naive Art (Zagreb)Cirilometodska ulica 3 Tel. (01) 485 1911 Open: 10am- 6pm Tue- Fri, 10am- 1pm Sat and Sun Closed: public holidays
Church of Saint Cyril and Methodius (Zagreb)Cirilometodska ulica Tel. (01) 485 1773
Tower of Lotrscak (Zagreb)Strossmayerovo Setaliste Tel. (01) 485 1768 Open: Apr- Oct 11am- 7pm Tue- Sun
Church of Saint Catherine (Zagreb)Katarinin trg Tel. (01) 485 1950 Open: 8am- 8pm daily
Art Pavilion (Zagreb)Trg Kralja Tomislava 22 Tel. (01) 484 1070 Open: 11am- 7pm Tue- Sat, 10am- 1pm Sun
Gallery of Modern Art (Zagreb)Andrije Hebranga 1 Tel. (01) 604 1055 Open: 11am- 7pm Tue- Fri, 11am- 2pm Sat and Sun Closed for public holidays
Archaeological Museum (Zagreb)Trg Nikole Subica Zrinskog 19 Tel. (01) 487 3000 Open: 10am- 60m Tue- Sat, 10am- 8pm Thu, 10am- 1pm Sun
Museum of Contemporary Art (Zagreb)Avenija Durbovnik 17 Tel. (01) 605 2700 Open: 11am- 8pm Sat, 11am- 6pm Tue- Sun
Maksimir Park (Zagreb)Maksimirski perivoj Open: daily
Stone Gate (Zagreb)Kamenita
Mirogoj Cemetery (Zagreb)Mirogoj Open: winter 7:30am- 6pm daily summer 6am- 8pm daily
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The area of the city of Zagreb was inhabited
since the Neolithic period. In Roman times, Zagreb was a Roman city
of Andautonia. The city was mentioned for the first time in the 11th
century, more precisely in the year 1094 when the King of Hungary
Ladislaus I founded a diocese on Mount Kaptol. On the neighboring
hill of Gradec another independent community of the diocese was
developed. Both localities would suffer the invasion of the Mongols
in 1242. But once the Mongol danger had disappeared, King Bela IV
made Gradec, a city of the kingdom. That is, a city was not subject
to a feudal lordship, to attract forest artisans.
During the
fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, Gradec and Kaptol would compete
with each other economically and politically. During the long
disputes, the diocesan city could isolate Gradec, who responded by
setting fire to his rival. The two centers collaborated with each
other, only for commercial reasons, such as during the three major
fairs that lasted two weeks disguised during the year.
In
1851 the two localities became a single city, Zagreb. Together they
are now the cultural center of the Croatian capital (the old city),
while the commercial and business hub is further south. The diocese
of Kaptol was the one that gave birth to the current archdiocese of
Zagreb. During the time when the Croatian territory was dominated by
the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the city took the name of Agram, its
name in German. The railroad was built in 1860. The neighborhoods of
the working class were located between the train track and the river
Sava, while the construction of residential neighborhoods around
southern Medvednica were completed between the two world wars.
The area between the railway line and the river Sava has been
filled with new buildings after the Second World War. In the
mid-1950s, the construction of new residences south of the Sava
River began in what was called the New Zagreb. The city also
expanded towards the west and towards the east, incorporating the
communities of Dubrava, Podsused, Jarun, Blato, among others.
The railway freight station and the Zagreb International Airport
were built on the south bank of the Sava River. The largest
industrial area of the city lies precisely to the southeast,
between the Sava and the Prigorje region.