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No. 07 OCTOBER/ INSTAGRAM* NOVEMBER 2015. Fall means not the Z on Facebook end of fun in Zagreb MIDDAY agreb fall - from end of summer to Christmastime - is TAKE-OFF all fun and games. Just look at this issue of Zagreb for Find yourself Z in Zagreb You: from busy Zagreb marathons or 13 days of Halloween unprepared at (page 2), buzz on the mountain or at the noon sharp and Zagreb Festival (page 3) to the bustling Martićeva, you’ll get a fright Tomićeva and Tkalčićeva streets. The action never stops. of your life or at least a serious And it’s nowhere near Advent yet... shake-up and startle. Every day, midday is marked Talkabout by a 130dB loud cannon fire going off from the Croatia Lotrščak Tower. ZAGREB’S SPORT Though a tradi- SCENE is shaking tion since 1877, the Grič cannon with the major league still startles frenzy. Dinamo Zagreb both locals and ANJA MUTIĆ triumphed over Arsenal, visitors who think Author of Lonely Planet Croatia, writes for New and Zagreb Kiel, there’s a jet plane York Magazine and The Washington Post. taking off near Follow her at @everthenomad Cedevita and Medveščak them. Lotrščak (handball, basketball Tower was part and hockey teams of Zagreb’s me- respectively) have never dieval defense, Happy ringing the bells been stronger. If you’re each night before not at a sport court or the town gates when it stadium to share the closed. Over thrill of Zagreb’s sport time, it played multiple roles – it renaissance, check out was a chapel, rains the recently opened army arsenal, Brewdogs, a sports town winery and bar that houses 30 big fire observatory. t will soon start to rain. I’ll Climb up to Ipull out my rain boots, the flat screens and serves the top for a pile of umbrellas to color-match custom-made steak. stunning vista of my clothes, rummage through OKO (EYE) at the Mu- the city. drawers for light sweaters... I’ll seum of Contemporary Year of start to sip my morning macchiato Arts (MSU) is a construction: indoors. The air will smell of plane cutting-edge street art 13th century Height: 30m trees. Chestnut vendors will performance taking Wall thickness: roast their brown treats on street shape in real time. For 195cm corners, and each one I pass, I’ll the past month, the Grič cannon remember how my late father artist OKO has been loudness: loved them. painting a 90m-long 130dB mural covering the he skies will turn moody. western wall of the MSU TWinds will pick up. Leaves entrance. Catch her will flutter about, and get crunchy work in progress before under my feet. it’s finished on Oct 13. Find out more about oetry will sneak into my Zagreb’s best-known writing. street artist at 3oko. P blogspot.hr & about her nd as it all happens, it’ll still project at @msu.hr. Abe raining. Drop by drop. ZAGREB MAJORETTES love Zagreb when it rains. And won Europe’s In competition with I love it when sun appears gold third year Bordeaux, Lisbon, Athens, I Valletta, Riga, Ljubljana, through a crack in the clouds one running. After OPENING Innsbruck, Milan, Brussels fall afternoon, and then it hits the victory in HOURS: *2014 Zagreb was the sixth 9am-9pm best destination in Europe puddles of water collected in the , they did their baton magic TICKETS: creases of broken asphalt, and adults 20KN suddenly it’s all shining, the city at the Eurobasket open- children 10KN Easiest way is so pretty and it feels as if never ing. 600 of them, the to remember ever rained. oldest being 25 and the Zagreb youngest only 3, per- all is face time with Zagreb. It’s form 250 days a year. If you already picked Fwhen the city shows its true No city parade happens WORD up the usual suspects temperamental self. If you happen without them. New among Zagreb souve- to be around, give it time to take in graduates are currently nirs, like a licitar heart, the highs and the lows, the down- being auditioned for the Kiša a Šestine umbrella or a pours and the sun. It’s the pairing next line-up. More on (ki-sha) tie, look for the latest that will stick even after you leave, @mazoretkinje.hr. Rain, Regen, favorite: Meet Zagreb Zagreb’s yin and yang. ZAGREB’S MOST Pluie, Lluvia, - Memory Zagreb. This TALKED ANIMAL is Pioggia, Chuva pocket-size memory MY FALL FAVORITES Ante the anteater, a new board game features Cup of coffee at Blok Bar Zoo inhabitant and a 雨 Zagreb sights & attrac- Stroll through as gift from the UK. Ante tions. Grab it at any sou- leaves change color needs a proper name so venir shop, bookstore or if you want to pitch your 비 city gallery. Price: 38KN. Readings at Booksa idea, enter the contest 雨 @mcroatia.com A hike up Medvednica by Oct 18. @zoo.hr

Don't waste paper. Use it or . . . Keep in Project . touch! Download your free copy and share: 30° zagreb-touristinfo.hr zagreb4you.com what*where*when* ZAGREB CITY Get spooked during MARATHON 13 Days of Halloween Zagreb city marathon is slated to kick off on October 24, with the kids’ race running the day before. The start and finish lines are on Ban Jelačić Square. If you’re up for it, the deadline for entering is October 7. @zagreb-marathon.com ZAGREB RESTAURANT WEEK The tastiest week in Zagreb is currently on, through Oct 11. Select restaurants around the city traditionally show- case their fall culinary delights s autumn evenings set in and without charging you a bomb. Afog creeps up the Upper Town You can enjoy a three-course streets, ancient tales of mystery meal, with a glass of wine, for bubble up. Sharing stories that as little as 100KN. Pick your featured witches, dragons and favorite place at tjedanresto- ghosts was once common enter- rana.com and let the chefs do tainment for the city dwellers. The their magic. darkest of them all was the legend of the Black Queen. This ruthless sorcerer would send her giant STREET ART 2.0 raven to peck peasants to near Street art of today has gone death or throw her lovers to the beyond using a can of spray: mercy of hungry wild boars. She Traces of old Celtic people were found think digital pens, cameras, is still among us, in the form of in the Upper Town, so Halloween projectors and QR codes. Find a snake, watchfully guarding her customs go back a long time out about its history - from cursed treasure. graffiti to light art - at Street You can hear this one and many night October 19-31, and avail- Art 2.0: Innovation more legends told by the Black able in English. Tickets: 50KN; at the Heart of Queen herself when you join the free for children under 13 (must Movement. The 13 Days of Halloween walking be accompanied). exhibition is tours. The program is on every @secret-zagreb.com on at Klovićevi "After dusk, make sure you wear your socks inside out: Dvori through- out October. @ dark forces fear silly people. We’ll keep demons away with rendez-vous.hr the light from our pumpkin," - Iva Silla, tourist guide NEW 102.5 FM - frequency for real people and real art

Head over to Lauba for the Superheroes 2.0 exhibition, unveiling bizarre and personal sides to Batman, Superman, Hulk and the rest of the comic books crew. @lauba.hr Sanjin Kaštelan auba – the self-dubbed ‘house Lfor people and art’ – is a former Austro-Hungarian riding stable turned contemporary art showroom. Tucked away in an industrial stretch of western Za- "People listen to us greb, this one-of-a-kind building tends to art in a way-out way. because we’re down Here, the showroom is called to earth. We’re playroom and visitors usually be- honest. There’s no come devoted members. Lauba’s botoxed reality at monumental open space gets you Yammat FM," up close and personal with art: Alen Balen, you can touch exhibits, and fol- Yammat FM music collection symbolically reaches the Yammat FM low dance performers. A hybrid number of their frequency: 102,500 tracks, and growing. director between a gallery and a museum, this vibrant hub gathers art-mak- from the 1990s. Even granny’s slow-cooked food.’ 102.5 ers and art-lovers, who mingle if you miss round-the-clock FM will serve you with much over coffee and wine. jokes in Croatian, their music more than the best 100s from the auba’s second-floor gallery is selection will keep you in good charts, including up-and-coming Lhome to Yammat FM, a new spirits. ‘In the world of fast- Croatian bands. Radio is art too, Zagreb radio whose hosts are food radio stations,’ says the ra- so no wonder Lauba and Yammat the legendary crew from the cult dio host Švec, ‘Yammat is your make such a good match. Food, fun & design on Martićeva street artićeva is booming. A 10-minute stroll eastbound overwhelmed by choice, chill out in their Mof the main square, this street has two brand-new newly opened and the city’s reddest café openings. An oldtimer, Divas cafe has a living room with a (literally: it’s all painted red). The coffee twist ambience, plus great coffee and homemade cakes. If brew – courtesy of Franck, Croatia’s you’re after a lunch bite, head further down the street to the oldest roaster – almost begs to be sipped recently unveiled Divas Bistro (Martićeva 14F). Less camp outside, slumped in a deckchair. The than its sister cafe, the bistro has a daily menu of simple but Design Superstore’s very own take-out delicious grub – think prawn quiche and chickpea stews. The food brand Takolako (So Easy), sorts interior is airy and artsy, light and bright, with quirky details. you out with either traditional bites or roatian Design Superstore showcases work by local de- gluten-free sandwiches. It’s easy to please Csigners. Grab ‘Croatia a la carte’ (cookbook and a game) the most discerning palate, not so easy to or Boya crayons as souvenirs from your travels. If you get leave this hip place. Sanjin Kaštelan Miljenko Bernfest "Takolako is a healthy and unusual take on the local cuisine. Try our zlevanka (cornbread with cottage cheese) or chilled beetroot soup with cream and coriander.” – Ira Payer, creative director Medvednica: A day in MONOVIEW GET YOUR nature ZEN ON & FIND YOUR Zagreb lies at the foot of the Medvednica Mountain. Sljeme, its highest peak CHILL ZONE IN ZAGREB (1033m), is a popular day trip ALEX CREVAR destination for locals and Travel writer from the United States. His work TO GET YOUR ZEN ON, WHERE visitors alike. has appeared in The New York Times, National Geographic Traveler and DO YOU GO? I get my daily Outside magazine @AlexCrevar dose of zen on the yoga mat practicing. Off There are over 70 hiking trails on Medvednica. The Homecoming the mat, I love to take most popular is Bikčevićeva long walks with my dog route (known as trail 18), love autumn generally … but I Seeta. We both love connecting the Sljeme Tunnel Ican’t wait for it in Zagreb. the woods and the Du- with the Puntijarka mountain It’s not just the weather. Though lodge. At times a bit Snježana Nina bravkin Put trail, the challenging, it’s still a favorite it is great in the Croatian Vukas Owner & Cmrok park and getting for many hikers and joggers. capital. There’s a crispness that founder of Sangha lost in Tuškanac forest. #hiking #jogging accompanies its continental lo- Yoga Studio & YOUR FALL FAVORITES IN School cation and the leafy parks scat- ZAGREB... I love fall. It’s tered across town and the men BEST SPOTS TO still warm enough to Eight cycling routes starting to roast chestnuts on spend time outside so I meander across the leafy street corners in the city leaning GET LOST IN Medvednica slopes, all have lunch at Zrno veg- eventually connecting with up and into the Dinaric Alps. NATURE etarian bistro, dinner one transverse route. They are It sure isn’t because school is at Mundoaka, a drink signposted with numbers 1–9 starting back. I couldn’t stand CMROK PARK, with friends in Melin and cleverly laid out so you school as a student. How I or Krolo bar, a slice of can choose when to hop on graduated from high school, TUŠKANAC and off to create your unique cake at Fine Torte... itinerary. #mountainbike college or anything else is a FOREST AND Medvednica, the moun- mystery. Though I have to admit MEDVEDNICA tain behind Zagreb, is I liked the first week of school. the most beautiful this Sljeme is dotted with Something like a new beginning MOUNTAIN time of year with leaves more than 20 mountain mixed with beer and girls. In turning yellow, red and lodges and huts. These are Zagreb, essentially, I have the perfect places to recharge orange. I like to hike up your used-up calories: order start of a new academic cycle and reward myself with a hearty sausage bean stew without having to attend class- a homemade walnut and sweet or savory strudel; es. Odlično. cake at Puntijarka don’t forget to wash it down t isn’t only because of the mountain hut. with gemišt. #food #wine Ifood—white truffles, olive oil, YOUR RAINY DAY HIDEAWAYS... It’s great to hole and the excitement of the grape up for a drink at the cozy & beautiful Bliznec hiking trail is harvest. Though the regions to Black Velvet café when it’s raining out- friendly to the less-abled visi- the east (Slavonia), west (Istria), side. For great food, I love Mali Bar with tors. It’s less than 1km long, and south (Dalmatia) are better a cute interior and tasty tapas made with accessible to people in known for wine, it is in Croatia’s fresh seasonal ingredients. It’s fun to wheelchairs, the blind and main city that I have opened ideal for the parents with share different dishes with friends. Love small children in strollers. the majority of the bottles I’ve their homemade pastas and creative sal- #disabled #education emptied in the country. ads. Sometimes I’ll catch a movie in Kino #children o, it isn’t one of these things. Europa or the Kaptol Centar multiplex. NIt is all of them. And, the ZAGREB’S BEST YOGA DROP-INS... Clearly, Sangha fact that Zagreb’s residents are Yoga, just up from the main square on Horvat’s 500 Stairs, the returning with stories of the sea most impressive sight beautiful Radićeva street. :) If you’re into on Medvednica, have and a genuine excitement to be Ashtanga, GaiaYoga or Pink Elephant been completely back—a homecoming. Sweaters are both great options. If aerial yoga is hand-built. The height on. Coffees in hand. The long au- your thing, head to Velvet Pepper studio. difference between the first tumn afternoon light stretching For Dharma yoga, Divya is a good option. and the last stair is 117m. down . Those who are into vistas, precipices and caves will love the Dwarf’s Cave along Tip: this hiking trail. #adventure Visit restaurants, like Lari & Penati, What does with seasonal menus to enjoy the cornucopia Croatia offers. Zagreb smell Cowork & like in the fall create at Impact Hub Coolture hestnut wood scented candles, and plane trees, all inspired by OK, YOU’VE HAD FUN C CLUBBING, you've checked out with a hint of just different scents the bookstores, theaters and fallen rain... Those of Zagreb and cinemas but you still want more are the scents of infused with more culture? Zagreb in the fall. exotic hints of oud, You may just fall in amber, sandalwood NEPALESE MUSICIANS DEVA PREMAL & MITEN accompanied love with them and and frankincense. For all you digital nomads by the bansuri master Manose visit if you do, you’re The names are fun, passing through or Zagreb as part of their Songs for the in luck – there’s too, such as The spending time in Zagreb, Sangha world tour. Head to Lisinski a store that sells Witch of Grich, Se- for all you creatives and concert hall on October 15 to listen to creators, social innovators them! Notes of cret of the Bloody ancient Indian and Tibetan mantras. and entrepreneurs, we found Tickets: 200-300KN @entrio.hr Zagreb carries Bridge and the a perfect collaborative space THE MEMORABLE FINNISH home fragrances Well of Life. Grab where you can work up a CELLO QUARTET APOCALYPTI- – think diffusers, a bottle of Zagreb creative storm, test out your CA made their fame covering Metalli- room sprays, so you can sniff it ideas and meet a vibrant ca’s hits. Catch them live in Tvornica incense sticks, anytime you wish? local community: Impact Hub on October 15 when they’ll be pro- Zagreb. Inside a sprawling textile sprays, Skalinska 2; moting their new album Shadowmake. apartment a stroll east of the Tickets: 150KN @eventim.hr @notesofzagreb.com dog perfumes and city center, it offers various ETHNOGRAPHIC MUSEUM IS Sanjin Kaštelan coworking options, from day CURRENTLY SHOWING ‘PEOPLE rates to 24/7 unlimited AND THE SEA’ - stories about the membership. You get coffee role of traditional fishery in Croatia & tea for free, access to fun told through material objects, such as events and an instant tools and boats. Exhibition is on until community of local peers, the end of October. @emz.hr and international ones – EKO LIMACH FEST is a children’s there are 70 Impact Hub fest dedicated to ecology and de- spaces around the world! signed for kids age 3-12. Head over @zagreb.impacthub.net with the wee ones to Maksimir on October 4 and have fun at interactive and educational workshops. Free en- QuiZG try. @park-maksimir.hr REGIONAL POP STAR BAJAGA Samobor - a town 1 Green or Lenuzzi Horseshoe in and his band Instruktori are doing a Zagreb’s city center consists of: big live gig on October 24 at Dom where foodies feast a) 7 squares & the Botanical Sportova. Tickets: 90KN Garden N @eventim.hr guilt-free b) 5 squares & the Botanical Garden Orson Welles in Zagreb: A pretty medieval town c) 9 squares & the Botanical Garden in spirit and in motion a mere 20-minute drive 90 min west from Zagreb, Samo- from Zagreb 2 Zagreb trams come with Festival bor is a foodie mecca with numbers 1 to 17. How many tram showcases features the tradition of both regal lines are there? and documentaries by a) 13 and humble dishes. Before b) 15 young up-and-coming you dig in, stroll around its postcard-per- c) 17 filmmakers. Some will fect streets or go hiking to nearby rolling continue in the steps hills, home to famous wineries and 3 Which Oscar-winning movie of past laureates, such as was shot in Zagreb and romantic castle ruins. It’s a perfect way produced by Branko Lustig Steve McQueen, Radu Jude and to enjoy a guilt-free kremšnita (custard (producer of Schindler’s List and Uberto Pasolini. The new genre cream cake) at the central Cafe Livadić the Gladiator)? on the program is ‘The Making or a hearty meat dish in Pri Staroj Vuri a) The Tin Drum Of,’ featuring behind-the-scenes b) Fiddler on the Roof restaurant. Wash your food down with c) Sophie’s Choice documentaries. True cinephiles

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Abrakadabra! Night at the ONE YEAR TO GO BEFORE A SECRET ZAGREB At nightfall, Zagreb TUNNEL BECOMES A TOURIST THRILL Zoo transforms into Grič tunnel is among the many hidden underground tunnels that run beneath Zagreb’s an enchanted fantasy Upper Town. Few people have seen these mysterious passages but hush-hush stories about land. Only the light in them abound. This year, Zagreb’s mayor visited the Grič tunnel and publicly announced: the children’s hearts can tunnel will become a unique 21st-century walking tour showcasing a multi-sensory experience break the evil spell. using advanced digital technology. In comes the good Museum of the Senses is slated to open in 2016 and promises to be witch to protect the Grič tunnel runs parallel to Europe’s one-of-a-kind tourist little ones as they meet Ilica, connecting Radićeva attraction. It will feature permanent and Mesnička streets. nocturnal animals. This exhibitions, concerts, an alternative Opening up this 350m-long and city promenade, holograms and three-hour educational 3m-wide ‘catacomb’ will revive giving visitors a program for children the sleepy Upper Town. This spine-tingling experience. offbeat museum will be anything and parents runs Oct but a house of the dead. Upper Town 15–31, twice daily: 6pm “The chamber of & 8pm. Pumpkin carving The tunnel was secrets is now open”

built in 1943 as an says one of the graffiti workshop over muffins Radićeva air raid shelter. Mesnička in the tunnel, written and a hot drink included! It served its during a curious one-off children age original opening of the tunnel: Tickets: purpose once the Under City Rave 5-14 35KN, adults 60KN. again during the party that took place @www.zoo.hr 1990s war. It has here on October 30, been closed ever 1993. since, which Map&card created a cloud of You have just 24 mystery around it. Ban Jelačić Square hours to experience Ilica Zagreb? Or you are here for just three days and want things to be easy? Then Zagreb Card is your best friend. Like Put Zagreb's ćevapi on in other big cities, it includes a map of the your comfort food menu city and its surroundings, PIXSELL free transport and dis- counts at 150 attractions. More @zagrebcard.com

TIPS& TRICKS ZAGREB TAXI HELP +385 1 1777 112 EXCHANGE RATES, egetarians From posh (BUY RATE, OCTOBER 1, 2015) Vaside, restaurants to € 1 7,65; $ 1 6,81; JPY 100 5,68 eveybody likes take-out joints, ćevapi: a grilled TIPS FOR ground meat dish nothing is more STREET MUSICIANS served with a of a staple food If the music moves flatbread called than ćevapi. Use you, a 5KN coin (0.66 euro), the one with lepinja. By origin a cutlery or get the brown bear, will do the MATE JANKOVIĆ Turkish speciality, your fingers trick. it’s been slightly Chef, columnist, TV star and Anthony greasy: NO GUIDE? Bourdain's host whenever he's here. adapted to local everything goes tastes. You can NO PROBLEM! find ćevapi almost The VoiceGuide app enables Why everywhere, from 102). If you prefer everyone to tour the city central Zagreb lamb on a spit or alone yet with the help of an experienced guide. The app I love fall to the far-out veal under the bell also works offline. neighborhoods. (traditional way fter a long and hot The go-to which of roasting meat), NEED TO KNOW Asummer you get pretty guarantees the head to Trnjanka FOR SMOKERS exhausted being sweaty, taste of the (Trnjanska Many cafes, bars looking for a place in the Balkans even at Cesta 31). and clubs tolerate shade while drinking your 5am is Dolac. ot all grills smokers but where bottled water and praying Dotted around the have the same it says smoking is N prohibited, take for some rain. That time has market, a bunch of flavor. For the your smoke outside. come, my favorite time of grill places serve balanced aroma year. Believe it or not, it’s fall. ćevapi with onion of wood grill, RENT YOUR OWN I love the yellow and brown or kajmak (cheese check out Bistro TWO WHEELS leaves, the rain, sipping on spread). Out west, M&Z (Antuna Bikes can be rented a hot green tea.... Imagine a in the Črnomerec Augustinčića 8). at 13 locations around great bar with soul and funk neighborhood There’s even a the city, half of which are in the center. Just look music playing while you look (last stop on factory of grilled out for a Nextbike station or out the window watching the trams 2, 6, 11, meat, better check out nextbike.hr. The rain fall and all imaginable 12), Mitnica grill known as Kod first half an hour is free; one colors of umbrellas mixing is the place to Koste (Savska hour costs 8KN; five hours (and up to 24 hours) goes and creating a 60’s LSD-in- be: the interior 107/1) where you for 79KN. fluenced video. Cafe terraces is nothing to be get the so-called are empty and everybody is looked at but the superćevapi. The FOR RAINY DAYS... searching for hidden booths juiciness of their place is always The Šestine umbrella in packed bars. ćevapi (made from crowded but it’s is one of Zagreb's most recognizable souvenirs. Grab he concert season kicks beef shoulder) is worth the wait. If yours at one of the souvenir Toff and you get to catch legendary. Stick you want to see shops on Bakačeva street, some really interesting bands, around the area to meat being grilled below the Cathedral. shows, stand-ups and plays. sample other meat in front of you, Restaurants are full again, dishes in the more look out for the BOOK AN APARTMENT Experience the city like a suits are back in town and you recently opened family-run local and book an apartment. get to see business deals being Paulaner grill Aba grill Great choices, among many: made. Zagreb is alive! bar (Črnomerec (Heinzlova 74). ZigZag Apartments & Rooms es sure, you spend more (www.zigzag.hr), Main Ytime in your car, and you Square Apartment (www. sure dislike driving in pour- 4 am apartment-mainsquare.com) and Pisac Apartment (www. ing rain. But I am sure you honestly.hr) appreciate lazy Sundays while GOING ALL-OUT raindrops play drums on your MORE INFO window. A lot of people com- AT THE ELECTRONIC BEATS plain about the weather. But if you love life, no weather can MARATHON PARTY spoil your day. Nothing can Electronic Beats arrives to Zagreb spoil my fall in Zagreb. Zagreb - your perfect chance to join is THE place for fall. Enjoy it hundreds of thousands of dancers all before you start to miss that over Europe. Check out the main blanket of leaves beneath action in three clubs: Sirup on Novem- your feet. ber 6, Močvara on November 7 and Teatar &td on both days. No less than Tip: Slump up in a cosy 13 bands, including Talisco, Young Fa- APPS bar and do some colorful thers and DJ Koza, have been carefully umbrella-watching through selected by Pyztek for maximum fun. the window - feel the zen Meet in Zagreb Zagreb kicking in. Zagreb be There Places