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The square is located below Zagreb's old city cores Gradec and Kaptol, just directly south of the Dolac Market on the intersection of Ilica from the west. Radićeva Street is from the northwest, the small streets Splavnica and Harmica from the north, Bakačeva Street from the northeast, Jurišićeva Street from the east, Praška Street from the ...
Zagreb / ˈ z ɑː ɡ r ɛ b / is the capital city of Croatia. A city of approaching a million inhabitants, it lies on the River Sava in the southwestern part of the Pannonian Basin . The city serves as a connection for traffic between Central Europe and the Adriatic Sea , as well as possessing an international airport.
The Festival of the Zagreb Philharmonic and the flowers exhibition Floraart (end of May or beginning of June), the Old-timer Rally annual events. In the summer, theatre performances and concerts, mostly in the Upper Town, are organized either indoors or outdoors. The stage on Opatovina hosts the Zagreb Histrionic Summer theatre events.
Nikola Šubić Zrinski Square (Croatian: Trg Nikole Šubića Zrinskog, popularly referred to as Zrinjevac) is a square and park in Donji Grad, the central part of Zagreb, the capital of Croatia. It is located near the central Ban Jelačić Square , halfway towards the Main Railway Station .
Square of the Victims of Fascism (Croatian: Trg žrtava fašizma) is one of the central squares in Zagreb.It was designed in 1923 urban plan on the site of the former fairground that was east of Draškovića street as the new center of then new eastern part of the town that was deliberately and systematically built in the 1920s and 1930s.
During the 1920s Zagreb's population increased by 70 percent, the city's largest demographic boom. In 1926 Zagreb introduced the region's first radio station, and in 1947 the Zagreb Fair was the first in the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. The area between the railway and the Sava saw considerable new construction after World War II.
1964 Zagreb flood, the biggest flooding disaster in the city's history. Presidential Palace built. XV Gymnasium founded. 1967 – Golden Spin of Zagreb ice skating competition begins. 1972 Animafest Zagreb begins. [33] Dom Sportova built. 1973 Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall opens. Zagreb TV Tower built. [34] 1974 August 30: Train disaster.
The Zagreb metropolitan area is the metropolitan area of Zagreb. The metropolitan area covers three counties in the Croatia, with an area of 4,930 km 2 . The largest cities or towns within the metropolitan area are Zagreb, Velika Gorica , Samobor and Zaprešić .