DECEMBER/JANUARY Fooling around Zagreb Here’s your Zagreb invitation: come out and have fun. Because December in Zagreb makes you fall in love with the city. Glide across the ice-skating rink at Tomislav Square, dance at Jelačić Square, fool around at the Funicular, enjoy sausages and mulled wine... If you’re still short of ideas, the revamped Zagreb For You will sort you out. Check out the Advent map with best events and fun locations. And watch out for that snow ball! INSTAGRAM* LIMITED EDITION FREE COPY Zagreb tourist board/Julien Duval board/Julien tourist Zagreb + Advent Map * Agram German exonym its Austrian by outside Croatia known commonly more was Zagreb Keep in touch! Download your free copy and share: on Facebook on Instagram zagreb4you.com Z on Twitter infozagreb.hr TALKABOUT MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS FIRST TRADITIONAL ADVENT Down the slide to artsy heights MARQUEE at Jelačić Square is no longer on. Seven years ago, in the spot where Novi Zagreb residents planned MINUTE to work garden lots, what popped up instead was the Museum of The Zagreb Mayor has Contemporary Arts (MSU). A work of architect Igor Franić, the Zagreb in a decided against it, mak- meander-shaped Museum transformed the otherwise dull drop of coffee ing more room for the commuter city area. It showcases the works of Croatian and New Year celebrations in international artists, but also houses a library, multimedia lecture Let your first impression the open air. room, bookshop, VIP salon, cafe and a restaurant. There’s plenty to of Zagreb be over a cup of explore with sub-zero temperatures outside. When you get tired, @adventzagreb.com forget the stairs and come down on the slide, an art installation by coffee. Cozy up at Johann ONE IN TEN ZAGREB Carsten Holler. Franck, the revamped grand- LOCALS USES INSTA- The Screen covering most of the style coffee house, smack Museum’s western side is the GRAM. 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Eagles IN 2016, ZAGREB IS Božić of Death Metal, the band GETTING ITS FIRST PET (Bo-zh-i-ch) whose concert at Bataclan CREMATORY AND CEM- Christmas, Weihnachten, was interrupted by the The cornerstone ETERY. Noël, Navidad, Natale, Natal terrorist attack, was actu- has been laid in Dumo- ally scheduled to play in vac, near the well-known クリスマス Zagreb on Dec 1. animal rescue. 크리스마스 #ZagrebForParis @azilzagreb.com 圣诞 Nikola Tesla in Zagreb 1892: “As a son of my home country Croatia, I think it’s my duty to help WHAT the city of Zagreb.” MONOVIEW WHERE Zagreb is a WHEN treasurebox of unusual spaces and buildings MY MOST SUCCESSFUL INITIATIVE SO ZAGREB FAR Instead of a planned SUPERHEROES parking lot, the new public Tesla in the heart of Zagreb park was laid out in Grgu- His only encounter with Zagreb was passing ra Ninskog street in 2013. through town on his way to his mother’s It made it the ninth park , funeral. At that occasion, he said at the City Saša Šimpraga of the historical Green Council: ‘As a son of my home country Cro- writer and activist atia, I think it my duty to help Zagreb.’ Tesla Horseshoe of Zagreb and is omnipresent in Zagreb: find his inventions COME OUT its newest addition in over in the Technical Museum, or stroll down the a century. shortest but most buoyant street bearing his ON THE FIRST WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE? As of name. Track down his statue in Preradoviće- SNOWY NIGHT 2016 I am starting the GRAND PARTY ON ICE va street, work by Ivan Meštrović. Seminar for Walkers. Lovers of ice-skating TO HEAR Each month a different, and Disney characters, POETS less ordinary city walk hurry to Arena Centar PERFORM will take place, followed Dec 10–13 for the silver by initiatives for city im- anniversary of Disney OUTDOORS provements. Participants on Ice winter spectacle. will be selected by a public Music and dance liven call. It will be free, fun up the best-known fairy- ANJA MUTIĆ and mostly about visiting tales – Frozen, the Lion Author of Lonely Planet Croatia, writes for unusual places in the city King, Little Mermaid and New York Magazine and The Washington while trying to improve it Post. Follow her at @everthenomad Peter Pan – sweeping at the same time. you away to a magical THE BEST SPOT IN ZAGREB TO HIDE adventure. Tickets: 90- A winter’s AWAY FROM THE COLD.... Instead 295KN. @eventim.hr of hiding, why not attend a ZAGREB AND global poetry festival that GDAŃSK ON CANVAS night I kicked off in Zagreb with Catch the third Zagreb have a confession to make: I’m a my poet friend Aleksandar Biennial of Painting until IChristmas Grinch. I’ll spare you Hut Kono? 50 Poems Dec 6 at the popular the reasons why, and go on to my for Snow is a no-budget Meštrović Pavillion (Trg next confession: I’ve secretly fallen festival taking place on the first night of Žrtava Fašizma 16). The in love with holiday time in Zagreb. heavy snow in Zagreb and other European exhibition showcases the I love the nip in the air while you sip and North American cities. Each year at best contemporary Croa- on mulled wine and munch on sau- nightfall, three different poets perform tian painting in dialogue sages and bread at one of the many outdoors, in the park behind the Tuškanac with artists from another street fairs. I love the sea of people Summer Cinema. European city. This year milling around the city streets, all TO REALLY “GET” ZAGREB... Go and see Zagreb’s the guest lineup’s theme in good spirits. I love the children’s most important modernist building from is Exporting Gdańsk. laughter at the ice rink, the alfresco the sixties: a housing estate in Laginjina Opening times: happenings all over town, the spirit street with the ‘mobile’ facade designed by Tue–Sun 11am–8pm. of joy... the architect Ivo Vitić. I also recommend vi- nd then there’s that first @hdlu.hr siting Zagreb Fair grounds and some of the snowfall, which for extra cheer BIGGEST NEW A spectacular abandoned pavilions, or parks hopefully happens at holiday time. YEAR PARTY and staircases north of Ilica street. The flakes start to fall, slowly, then faster, and faster, a nature’s crescendo... And then that first eve- HIDDEN ZAGREB ning, the ground becomes covered with a soft quilt of snow. It all turns Cult cafe tucked away so silent you can almost hear your own footsteps. behind the church On that first day of snow, wait Traditional Zagreb New until evening. Then that very first very Zagreb local knows of Kinoteka – a Year’s countdown takes evening, head out and stroll around Eone-time arthouse cinema and a name- place at the Jelačić Zagreb. For extra magic, pick a late sake cafe at the same address (Kordunska 1). Square with a live open- evening. Pick any part of town, a This Hopper-style foyer operated only three air concert. Croatian pop random street. And then start to hours before a film screening, but stirred up icon Nina Badrić and a amble. Wander aimlessly. Make enough buzz to grow into a cult artists’ hang- host of popular Croatian traces in the virgin snow. Pass out. Though the screenings relocated to the bands will liven up the under trees with trunks white and Tuškanac cinema, the cafe’s vibe lives on. It show. It’s time to dance light, like intricate lacework. wows with its worldly charm – think grand into the New Year! alk and walk, and you’ll piano and mismatched antique furniture – @adventzagreb.com Wdiscover another city than the and a cozy neighborhood feel, lovingly built one with all the colorful Christmas by the owner couple Željko and Željka Japec. hubbub. You’ll unearth another There’s no schedule of live events, but if you Zagreb, cloaked in mystery, an visit often, you’ll surely catch an impromptu enchanted winter’s tale... music or stand-up comedy gig. SILENT MOVIE BLAST IN CINEMA EUROPE. Catch silent movie classics screened to the live performance of the Zagreb Philharmonic. If you’ve never seen Nosferatu, Bat- tleship Potemkin or Chaplin’s The Kid and Keaton’s The General, get in line at Kino Europa Dec 22 and Jan 26. Tickets: 60KN and sell out quickly. @kinoeuropa.hr SLJEME The only European capital with a ski resort an’t make up your from Zagreb, Sljeme has proficiency. The easiest ljeme makes a great Cmind on this win- made it on the list of and longest is the White Sski resort provided ter’s ski destination? major skiing holidays. Descent (1110m), while there is snow around.