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St Mark's Church
A medieval church crowned by a famous tiled roof bearing the coats of arms of Croatia and Zagreb.
Photo: Jorge Franganillo / CC BY 2.0
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Croatian Museum of Naive Art
Vivid peasant-painter visions, painted on glass.
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Why it is worth your time
A small Upper Town gem devoted to Croatia's world-famous naïve painters: self-taught village artists, above all of the Hlebine school, who painted dreamlike rural scenes in oil on the back of glass. Bright, strange and deeply Croatian, the collection turned untrained farmers into internationally collected masters. One of the few museums of its kind anywhere.
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Look for the glass paintings by Ivan Generalić: the back-of-glass technique gives them their glow.
More places in Zagreb
A small next-step selection from the same city.
Hidden gem
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Meštrović Atelier
The home and studio of Croatia's greatest sculptor.
Photo: Bernard Gagnon / CC BY-SA 4.0
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Grič Tunnel
A WWII shelter tunnel threading under the Upper Town.
Photo: Miroslav Vajdic from Zagreb, Croatia / CC BY-SA 2.0
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