Best of Europe 2017! No Bragging but Zagreb Is the Best in Europe! Lonely Planet Set Zagreb at the Very Top 10 Places to Visit in 2017
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JUNE 2017 Best of Europe 2017! No bragging but Zagreb is the best in Europe! Lonely Planet set Zagreb at the very top 10 places to visit in 2017. Hip yet alternative, vibrant, original and super-accessible, it’s where Austro-Hungarian squares meet brutalism, and street art and gastro scenes thrive, says Lonely Planet. Yup, tons of reasons to visit Zagreb. Check out the gems slated for June in Zagreb For You. @lonelyplanet/Zagreb INSTAGRAM* Photo: Sanjin Strukić/Pixsell Photo: LIMITED EDITION FREE COPY * 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 TESLA’S 1917 WI-FI SET UP AT JARUN FIRST A century after ruining Tesla Tower’s original at TESLA TOWER Long Island, NY, a unique replica of wi-fi to-be Long Island, sprouted up at Jarun’s Youth Island. Put 1901 - 1917* MINUTE together last summer, the domed construction Height: 57 m LET’S TALK made of steel rapidly turned into Zagreb’s Dome ABOUT THE WEATHER coolest new landmark and a symbol of Jarun. diameter: If you want to small talk During INmusic, Tesla’s wonder of tech glows 21 m about the Zagreb weather up the night for festival goers. Weight: with a local, first head to 55 tons Zrinjevac Park and check of steel out the 1884 Meteorologi- TALKABOUT Construction costs: cal Post. At the north side HENDRIX BRIDGE just got re- 150.000 USD of the park, this weather painted and so did its graffiti! Scrap iron: pillar is a vintage beauty The plan to rename Sava’s oldest 1750 USD with original instruments bridge after Jimi Hendrix is still on. that are still wound up #savskimost TESLA TOWER manually. The tape show- COFFEE HOUSE at the corner Island of Youth, ing results for humidity 2016 - of Gundulićeva and Ilica returns. Height: and pressure is replaced Hang on just a bit longer for Cor- 30 m every Monday. so’s redesign, a cult café for the Dome cultural class, opening in 2018. diameter: @zagreb.hr 12 m ZETS INFO APP by 18-year-old Weight: WORD st 25 tons Leon Tuček, 1 prize winner of of steel INOVA, is an absolute hit. Out- smart traffic jams, target your Ljeto next tram… even check out where they’re patroling. #ZETinfo (lye-to) ZAGORKA gets her own museum, finally. Well-deserved, as one of *Long Island’s Tesla Tower was Summer, Sommer, Zagreb’s most important women demolished with dynamite in Été, Verano, Estate, Verão ever. Aim to visit Zagorka’s Witch 1917, fearing German spies of Gritch at the Jelačić Palace at St Mark’s Square. #Zagorka 夏,여름, 夏季 ZAGREB WHAT SUPERHEROES MONOVIEW WHERE WHEN BEST TIME TO HIT THE STREETS Legendary street festival Cest is d’Best is back (till Jun 6). Head to Ban Jelačić Johnny left and Flower squares or but the legend lives on kids-only Zrinjevac Park for Zagreb’s famed citizen John- Zoran Marić, director, INmusic Festival crazy cool fun with acro- ny doesn’t even live in Zagreb. bats, dancers, pantomime He is in Holland where no one INmusic @Jarun! artists and clowns. Don’t calls him that anymore. Born as miss the funny school of Branimir Štulić, Johnny was the What’s a better way Croatian sign language. If lead voice of Azra, a band that you’re still not laughing, pioneered the New Wave sound to kick off summer? check into the emergency in the 70s and 80s. Hundreds of mood repair center. songs that he wrote and played in INMUSIC’S The 12th INmusic @cestisdbest.com just a decade still echo in the city. Festival is the best… FUN AT THE NICEST Even today, his popular verses PROGRAM because every year we PROMENADE are spray-painted onto Zagreb’s MATCHES THE try harder. :) A week Summer on Stross prom- facades. Johnny left and he won’t of camping, three ises 102 days of pure fun. be back, but the legend of our BIGGEST days of music & bonus Throughout the summer Dylan from Novi Zagreb remains. FESTIVALS LIKE attractions - what’s a (till Sept 5), this chest- better way to kick off nut-lined promenade hosts ROSKILDE AND summer? fab music, theater, art and SZIGET, AT AN In 12 years, Zagreb has pub quiz events. Think cab- changed… more than aret, swing, jazz and retro AFFORDABLE we can see. We get lots rock for grownups, puppet PRICE more tourists since we shows for kids & art work- joined the EU. I’d like shops. Don’t miss the cool ANJA MUTIĆ to point out our gift to Mongrel Beauty Contest Zagreb: the first-ever Author of Lonely Planet Croatia, writes for (June 30, 6.30pm). New York Magazine and The Washington replica of the Tesla @ljetonastrosu.com Post. Follow her at @everthenomad Tower that’s become a NEED TO ANIMATE new part of the city’s skyline and a symbol YOURSELF? of Jarun. The 27th edition of Ani- People from all over Europe visit INmu- mafest, the world-famous The secret is sic… mainly for its quality music program festival of animated film, that compares to some of Europe’s big- kicks off June 5–10. Catch out, Zagreb gest festivals: Rock Werchter, Roskilde, more than 300 films, some Sziget… for a much more affordable price! screened in Zagreb parks. is in INmusic isn’t just about concerts but This year’s focus: site-spe- also… great energy, new friendships, the cific films and the fusion nd they have arrived! I see first day of summer when we celebrate of comics and animation. Atour groups descending down the World Music Day! Beside the “festival Make sure to watch the dis- Zagreb’s “secret” stairways as island” with six stages, two more islands plays on Museum of Con- I clamber up. I see cyclists on become seven-day camps. temporary Arts’ facade. guided jaunts around town chasing I can’t wait to see… We all have our Dig into animation theory Zagreb’s solar system. I overhear faves. I’m excited to see talented but at the Animafest Scanner commentary about my city, strang- lesser-known artists — Orchestra Baobab, conference. @animafest.hr ers discussing its highs and lows. Public Service Broadcasting. here is no doubt - the secret What INmusic has done for Zagreb… Tis out: Zagreb is in. I’ve been made it a hotspot for music lovers. This writing about the city for more year we expect a record number of for- than a decade, back when it was eigners. Thanks to the INmusic, Zagreb’s just a quick stopover to the Adriatic tourism will reach over 7 million euro in coast and the islands. I’ve been revenue! watching it slowly flourish over the If INmusic didn’t exist, I’d… make a new years, becoming buzzier and more INmusic! :) alive, and blooming into this urban When there’s no INmusic, what I love beauty everyone is now making a the most is… a good book. You can never beeline for. have too much education! TAKE EATING TO THE hat selfish little part of me NEXT LEVEL Twants to protect the city from HIDDEN ZAGREB Dinner in the Sky®, one crowds. Just to make sure it doesn’t of the world’s ten most go from underrated to touristy. unusual restaurants ac- Keep it cool, keep it fresh, keep it Track down vineyards cording to Forbes, returns just right. But despite my strange at the heart of town to Zagreb (June 22–26). sense of ownership - it is my home- Choose among five dif- town, I want to scream sometimes! he famous Plešivica and Samobor wine ferent packages, from the - Zagreb is growing at its own pace. Troutes are not news to wine lovers. Za- cocktail or champagne-on- It may have taken years, but the greb county produces plenty of fine drops ly to the slap-up lunch or city has come into its own. but not many people know there is a wine dinner. You go 50 meters route in the very city of Zagreb. It stretches up into the air but your Tip: See the top sights, sample the from the eastern outskirts of Gornja Du- palate moves even closer staples, cross all from the bucket brava to Sesvete, meandering along the way to heaven, with delicacies list - and then book your second trip through the pristine Mt Medvednica. The by top Croatian chefs. to Zagreb. This, the comeback stay, indigenous sort is portugizac but merlot, @dinnerinthesky.com.hr will be the real discovery. pinot noir and sauvignon abound as well. DON'T MISS Open-air summer fests in Zagreb agreb plus open-air equals — summer! Get of tourists and a full festival camp on site. For Zready, INmusic festival takes place on sum- three days, Zagreb will turn into a rock’n’roll mer solstice, its 12th year in a row. At Jarun’s mecca of Europe. archipelago, thousands dance under starry skies There’s no stopping the party. Maybe there’s a while Tesla Tower beams. Headliners this year quiet corner in town on the weekend but soon after break beyond records (see below, Arcade Fire, another open-air spectacle pops up at a special site. Kings of Leon — what more?) There will be tons Šalata Stadium, rising above the city center, hosts SUMMER LINE-UP ... ... Arcade Fire, Darko SUN Rundek, Michael 18 Kiwanuka, Th' Legendary Shack MON 19 Shakers,... TUE 20 Kings of Leon, Alt-J, Repetitor, WED 21 The Strange, Kel Assouf, Gatuzo,..