Opened in 1925 as a refuge for passengers from the Orient Express, it is considered the city's most iconic hotel.
Our trip really began with a walking tour of the Upper Town.
On the roof tiles are the coat of arms of Zagreb (white castle on red background) and the coat of arms of the Triune Kingdom of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia.
On top are the statues of Joseph and Mary with the infant Jesus, and below them St. Mark and the Lion. The Twelve Apostles are placed on both sides of the portal.
The building is composed of two baroque mansions and houses courts, archives and other government offices.
In October 1991 the palace was bombed by the federal army, in what some believe to have been an assassination attempt on President Franjo Tudjman.
The Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which seems to be mainly referred to as St. Stephen's is in the center of the picture.
Saint George (c. 275/281 � 23 April 303) was a Roman soldier from Syria and in the Guard of Diocletian. He was executed by Diocletian in 303 after refusing to renounce Christianity.
Apparently the dragon legend got attached to St. George in stories told after the Crusades.
I find these human statues to be a little creepy.
This one was good.
The cathedral was finished in 1217 and was consecrated by King Andrew II (1205 - 1235), on his way to the 5th Crusade.
As early as in 1242, Tartars destroyed the newly built cathedral, so Bishop Stephen II (1225 - 1247) had the Chapel of St. Stephen the Martyr erected for the cathedral mass services. This Romanesque and Gothic building is today incorporated in the Archbishopric's Seat.
Bishop Timotej (1263 - 1287) started building a new cathedral, integrating in it the remainders of the 'preTartaric' cathedral. He dedicated it to St. Stephen, a Hungarian king.
The building has been rebuilt and repaired numerous times most significantly after an earthquake in 1880.
Zagreb, Croatia's capital, has 23 outdoor food markets or, as they are often called, �green markets�.
Located in Zagreb�s upper town, Dolac is the largest one of them; it offers the widest selection of produce from all regions of Croatia.
The Museum was founded in 1880 to protect works of art and craft against the new predominance of industrial products. The holdings consist of 19 collections of hand crafted articles.
The same process of travertine deposition that creates the Plitvice waterfalls is at work here as well.
The falls are created by a process of travertine deposition. Essentialy calcium carbonate, dissolved as ground water moves through mountain caverns, is deposited on the surface building up barriers to the river.
This process is not unique to Plitvice but takes place at a grander scale here than anywhere else in the world.
We didn't have a group picture for the trip and I couldn't get good pictures at our restaurant dinners. I could never get far enough away from the table to take them.
So this section at least shows most of the group members.
This building is pockmarked with bullet craters.
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