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Street-by-Street: the Upper Town (Gornji grad) 8 . Meštrović Atelier
The great Croatian sculptor
Ivan Meštrović lived in this
18th-century building Gornji
Grad
from 1922 to 1941. About
ten years before his death
he donated his home and CENTRAL
ZAGREB
all the works of art in it to
the state.
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D E M E T R O V A K A V A 0 Parliament Building
This building dates from 1910, when the
provincial administration offices were
T A Č E K O enlarged. The independence of Croatia
was proclaimed from the central window
E Č of the building in 1918.
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9 . Church of St Mark
The coloured tiles on the roof of this
K A M E N I T A
A fine Gothic church form the coats
K of arms of Croatia, Dalmatia,
S Slavonia and Zagreb.
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I Č all that remains of the
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Ć P A T constructed around
O the Gradec area in
the 13th century.
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The Klovićevi Dvori, an
important temporary
exhibition site, has
been housed since 1982
in a 17th-century
Jesuit monastery.
y Church of St Catherine
Built on the site of an ancient
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Dominican church, this is the city’s
0 yards 50 most fascinating Baroque building.

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