Historical walks / Urban layers · Streets & traces

Layers of Zagreb

Read Zagreb as a city built and rebuilt over time. Streets, surviving structures and changed place names offer ways to understand what stood here before.

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St Mark's Square with a market in medieval times

An Iron Age settlement of thatched houses on a hill above the river valley

An Iron Age settlement above the valley

The walk

A closer look

Hidden waterways

The Medveščak once ran through the ravine between Gradec and Kaptol. It was covered over by the end of the nineteenth century.

The Medveščak stream flowing between old houses in winter — The Medveščak stream in winter

The changing square

Trg bana Josipa Jelačića has changed names and appearance over time. The Manduševac spring was filled in during 1898 and reconstructed as a fountain in 1987.

The Harmica square with market stalls, horse carts and townspeople in the nineteenth century — The Harmica, the square's earlier name

Reading the city

Different periods leave different kinds of evidence. On this walk, the guide distinguishes surviving structures and documented changes from interpretation.

Excavated layers beneath a Gradec street, St Mark's Church beyond — The ground beneath a Gradec street

Aerial view of Ban Jelačić Square filled with market stalls, the Sberger building at left — Ban Jelačić Square from the air, 1917

Dolac Market

A sundial on the weathered wall of an old Gradec house — A sundial on an old Gradec house

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Between Two Hills Agram Zagreb 1941–1991