The upper part of Zagreb is a historic, cultural and entertainment area. It contains one of the most colorful streets in the city, Tkalčićeva Street. Also located uptown is the famous in Zagreb Dolac market. Among other attractions, there are several museums and churches that are known nationally and around Europe. Take this tour to explore the sights of upper Zagreb.
1) Kraš Bonbonieres
Kraš Bonbonieres is a popular candy shop that sells all sorts of chocolates, from chocolate candies to chocolate biscuits, banana chocolate, and many other chocolate delights fit to satisfy any sweet-tooth at home and abroad. If you're one of them, come and treat yourself.
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2) Flores Cafe
Flores Café is a nice place where you can rest in after a hard day of touring. It serves great chocolate pie and coffee; together they make the place's great interior particularly enjoyable. Adding to the ambiance is a lounge bar with a long list of non-alcoholic drinks and nice music, a mix of lounge and funky.
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3) Dolac Market
Dolac Market is a well-known and reportedly the best farm market in Zagreb where you can buy fresh fruits, vegetables, dairy products, meat, poultry and fish. It is very big and beautifully arranged. There are also shops selling souvenirs and Croatian handicrafts.
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4) Tkalčićeva Street
Tkalčićeva Ulica is one of the oldest streets in upper Zagreb. The street is renowned for its traditional architecture and the nightlife spots located thereon. Also adding to the street's popularity are the many restaurants, shops, art-galleries, and café-bars.
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5) Kamenita Vrata
Kamenita Vrata, or the Stone Gate, is a medieval-style tower that was built in the 18th century. It is one of the four gates to the old Gradec. The tower is also called the Chapel of the Mother of God of the Stone Gate. There is a picture of Virgin Mary holding the baby Jesus that has miraculously survived a devastating fire. Many candles have been lit there throughout years by those who have come and prayed for their relatives.
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6) Klovićevi Dvori Gallery
Klovićevi Dvori is a gallery showcasing the greatest Croatian painter and enlightener Juraj Julije Klović. The period of his work fell upon the Renaissance. The gallery also features Chagall, Van Gogh, and Mondrian.
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7) Banski Dvori (Presidential Palace)
Banski Dvori is a historic building on the west side of St. Mark's Square and is the official residence of Croatian Government. This long, two-story Baroque palace was built by Ignjat Đulaj in the first half of the 19th century. On October 7, 1991, the building was damaged by a powerful explosion, reportedly caused by a rocket fired by the Yugoslav People's Army in an attempt to simultaneously hit Franjo Tuđman, the newly elected president of Croatia, Stipe Mesić, the president of Presidency of Yugoslavia, and Ante Marković, the Yugoslav prime-minister, all of whom were lucky to survive.
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8) St. Mark's Church
St. Mark's Church is a parish church in old Zagreb. The Romanesque window on its south facade, much as the semicircular ground-plan of St. Mary's chapel, suggest that the church must have been built as early as the 13th century. In the second half of the 14th century it was radically reconstructed and turned into a late Gothic-style church of the three-nave type. The Gothic composition of the portal consists of fifteen effigies placed in eleven shallow niches. On top are the statues of Joseph and Mary with the infant Jesus, and below them one can see St. Mark and the Lion; the Twelve Apostles are placed on both sides of the portal (four wooden statues replaced the original ones which had been destroyed). In its artistic composition and the number of statues, this portal is the richest and the most valuable Gothic portal in South Eastern Europe.
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