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May 26, 2013, 9:24 am
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Croatia’s capital city is often bypassed for the coast, but stay a while and you’ll quickly discover its charm. Well connected by plane, bus, and train with cities throughout Europe, Zagreb makes for a great weekend getaway. Enjoy, relax, and revel in the sound of cafe chatter and trams whirring by as you stroll past modern storefronts and elegant Neo-Baroque facades.

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Latest Zagreb news & events

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Dance Week Festival

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DANCE WEEK FESTIVAL (Tjedan suvremenog plesa) is Croatia’s primary international festival of contemporary dance, movement theatre and mime. This annual festival, organized by Institute for Movement and Dance was founded in 1982 by its Artistic Producer Mirna Zagar. Its eclectic programming is a platform for encounters of diverse choreographic and artistic visions meet and stimulate more...

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D-Day

D-Day is design manifestation that gathers the best young and creative forces from Croatia and its neighboring countries. This year’s festival will relocate its activities to an ex-industrial zone called Gredelj whichmight just as well develop into a creative cluster, a place of thick concentration of intertwined creative industries and interdisciplinary collaborations. At the same time we more...

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From movies to miners – this week’s recommended events

Croatian beaches are slowly getting their first sunscreen-smothered visitors , fine restaurants are beginning to note an increase in reservations, and luxury hotels are hosting their first round of visitors. The season is picking up, and the choice of where to go and what to do is growing. Here’s a selection from us this for more...

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Jewish Film Festival kicks off in Zagreb

Zagreb’s increasingly popular Jewish Film Festival opens its seventh edition on May 19th. Also known as the festival of tolerance, the event gives Zagreb a full week of films promoting awareness and respect for other people’s cultures, customs and beliefs.   This year, the festival will welcome directors such as Franck Appréderis, Darko Lungulov, Daniel more...

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United Electronic Sound Closing Party

United Electronic Sound is holding its closing party on June 16th with special guest DJ Len Fakija from Berlin. Dance all night at one of this summer’s hottest parties. Tickets are 50 HRK / €6.60  before 31.5.13 and  70 HRK / 9.25 € after 1.6.13.

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Big Picture: Downtown Zagreb

Zagreb is Croatia’s liveliest city and it’s center has a lot to offer any visitor. Check in at a comfy, modern apartment and then get lost in the center’s cobblestone streets filled with shops and eateries. After, you’ll surely come down with some shutterbug fever and so snap yourself silly at the center’s various historic and cultural landmarks more...

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Zagreb’s biking scene heats up for summer

Hot off the presses this week is Zagreb’s three-month biking pilot project. Spearheaded by young entrepreneurs, Ante Gustina and Kresimira Dvorskog, the project’s long-term aim is to increase bike traffic in the city, with the hopes of spreading the idea to other Croatian towns.   During the project’s pilot run, a total of 50 bicycles more...

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Hear Oliver Stone talk in Zagreb tonight

The 6th annual Subversive Film Festival in Zagreb is in full swing.   Lectures, round tables and workshops aimed at exploring and understanding recent cultural history set this event apart from traditional competition film festivals.   Today brings the event’s final screenings with: 2. p.m. – 4 p.m. Gaigiment, Rusudan Chkonia, Georgia/France, 2012, 91′ (Kino more...

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The tree which bore witness to history in Zagorje

In the turbulent 16th century, the nobles of Europe ruled over the peasantry with an iron and greedy fist. Such behavior, naturally, led to furious uprisings against their will, and Croatia was not different. In 1573, a peasant under name of Matija Gubec became the leader of a peasant rebellion which started in a town more...

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Big Picture: Croatian National Theater

There are national theaters all over Croatia from Zadar to Rijeka to Varazdin. The largest and most famous of these is the Croatian National Theater located in Zagreb. While theater was alive and well in the city back in the 1600 and 1700s, the theater was established under its current title on Novemeber 24, 1860, a time more...