Monday, July 2, 2018

Day 31 & 32: Zagreb

 We took a tour of the lower and upper town that was informative and enabled us to see many parts of Zagreb.  This building is the Esplanade Hotel.  In the 1920's to was used as a stop-over hotel for the Orient Express.


The guide took us up to the Mirogoj Cemetery.  It seemed weird, but it was really pretty amazing.  Catholics, Jews, Serbian Orthodox, and Muslims are all in the same cemetery.  The walls that surround it are stunning.



There was even a Star of David on one of the domes.


This sculpture of Moses is on the Holocaust Memorial.


We did a lot of walking the old town.





The old town is really charming.



There were a huge system of caves underneath the mountains of old town.


On Saturdays they have this ceremonial changing of the guards.  I wasn't expecting the horses.


The next day we went to the farmers market. 





Like we saw in Slovenia, Zagreb has it's crest on the man hole covers of old town.


The highlight of the day was going to the Museum of Naive Art.  Here are a few paintings from one of Croatia's most important naive artist, Ivan Generalic.




We've been eating dinner watching the world cup on huge screens, all around town.





This guy had enough!!









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