Trips To Zagreb is an independent guide to the city, written and maintained by Samer Alqaisi. It is part of a network that includes Trips To The World and separate guides to Istanbul, Madrid, New York, Dublin, Prague, Budapest, Vienna, Edinburgh, Dubai, Cairo, Sydney, Toronto, Hong Kong, Mexico City and Manchester.
What this site is trying to be
Zagreb is usually written up as a stopover on the way to the coast, given a day, and described as “charming”. That is not wrong and it is not much use.
What Zagreb actually is: two medieval towns that fought each other for six centuries, a nineteenth-century capital built almost entirely in the thirty years after an earthquake, and a city currently repairing itself from two more. So this site gives that its own article — The Two Hills and the Two Earthquakes — and a page explaining why so much of the centre is under scaffolding, because that is the first thing a visitor notices and almost nothing explains it.
It also takes špica seriously, because sitting outside for three hours on a Saturday morning is more characteristic of this city than any building in it.
How it is researched
Opening times and access come from the venue’s own source and are dated on the page. Where a price is not shown, it has not been checked recently enough to print.
Zagreb needs that caution more than most cities right now. The Mimara, the Museum of Arts and Crafts and several others have had long, repeated closures since March 2020, the cathedral’s access has changed many times, and the Sljeme cable car varies by season. This site says check rather than printing a schedule that will be wrong.
Corrections are made quickly and acknowledged.
How it is funded
Advertising and some affiliate links, mainly hotel and flight search. If you book through one, the site may earn a commission at no additional cost to you.
What that does not buy: no hotel, restaurant, tour operator or attraction has paid for a mention or a position here. No sponsored posts, no paid placements, no press trips.
Where something is not worth the money, the page says so — which is why the Tkalčićeva entry tells you to walk two streets west, why the Mimara entry explains that a large number of its attributions are seriously disputed, and why Advent is described as good and also as crowded, expensive and no longer a secret.
Photographs
The photographs on this site are not the author’s. They come from Wikimedia Commons under licences permitting reuse, and every one is credited beside the image and again at /credits/.
Corrections and contact
If something here is wrong or out of date, please say so. Specific corrections with a date or a link are the most useful kind.
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