Cemetery, skating, and tunnels
Mirogoj Cemetery is actually near the top of the lists of things to do in Zagreb, but we would have visited anyway: My grandfather is buried there.
It was an atmospheric morning to visit a cemetery, a warm front moving through has pushed the temperatures above freezing and there was a nice mist shrouding everything. Finding my grandfather’s grave was easy – his is one part of a shrine to the leaders of the Croatian Peasant’s Party. So we paid our respects.
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We went on to visit the Stone Gate – the only surviving mediaeval gate and now a small chapel. Ultimately there’s not a lot to it, beyond a painting of the Madonna and votive candles glowing in the dark.
As part of Zagreb’s Winter festivities one of the parks is turned into an ice-park. It’s not really an ice-rink because in addition to an open area there is a long path you can follow around the edge of the park. The path made the whole experience that much more interesting.
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After all that we deserved some more food and drink from the Christmas Market. Zagreb technically has 25 markets and we fond one with food a cut above the others we have visited and had lovely fresh bread rolls filled with cevapi.
The food went on with a Birthday dinner at a traditional Croatian restaurant complete with arched white-washed walls. Then Jennifer and I took a stroll through the old town and through the air-raid tunnels from the civil war that now serve to connect various bits of central Zagreb together.
Declan guarding a table. Ice park. Zagreb Street. Mulled wine. Cemetery. Mirogoj Cemetery.
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