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y Church of
St Catherine
Sv. Katarina
Katarinin trg. Tel (01) 485 19 50.
Open 8am–8pm daily.
The Jesuits built this church in
around 1630 on the site of a
Dominican building. The church
is considered to be one of
the most beautiful religious
buildings in Zagreb. The white
façade has a doorway and four
niches with statues and six
prominent pilasters. Above is
a niche with a statue of Mary.
The single-nave church is
On the hills – rainforest by Ivan Rabuzin (1960), Croatian Museum of Naive Art home to numerous Baroque
works of art. Of particular
e Croatian Museum designed by Hermann Bollé. interest are the stucco reliefs
of Naive Art The interior contains a large (1721–3) by Antonio Quadrio,
Hrvatski muzej naivne umjetnosti iconostasis that was painted the Scenes of the Life of
by the Ukrainian Epaminondas St Catherine by the Slovenian
Sv. Ćirila i Metoda, Čirilometodska Bučevski, and four large artist Franc Jelovšek (1700–64)
ulica 3. Tel (01) 485 19 11. Open May– paintings by Ivan Tišov. in the medallion on the ceiling,
Oct: 10am–6pm Mon–Sat, 10am–1pm The adjacent Greek-Catholic a beautiful Altar of St Ignatius by
Sun; Nov–Apr: 10am–6pm Tue–Fri, seminary was built in 1774 and the Venetian sculptor Francesco
10am–2pm Sat; 10am–1pm Sun. enlarged at the beginning of Robba (1698–1757) and, on the
Closed public hols. & 8 = the 20th century. main altar (1762), St Catherine
∑ hmnu.org
among the Alexandrian
Since 1967, this 19th-century t Tower of Lotrščak Philosophers by Kristof
building with its beautiful Neo- Andrej Jelovšek (1729–76).
Baroque façade has housed Kula Lotrščak In the nearby square called
works from an exhibition of Strossmayerovo šetalište 9. Tel (01) Jezuitski trg, there is a fountain
Naive painters which opened 485 17 68. Open Apr–Oct: 9am–7pm with a statue of a Fisherman
in Zagreb in 1952. The paintings Mon–Fri, 10am–7pm Sat & Sun. with a Serpent by Simeon
are char acterized by the use & = Roksandić (1908). Facing this
of vivid colour and a strong is a Jesuit monastery (17th
feeling for narrative. There are Since the middle of the 19th century) and a large building
paint ings by the founders of century, the inhabitants of from the same period which
the Naive trend, Ivan Generalić Zagreb have set their clocks was the Jesuit seminary and,
and Mirko Virius, as well as by at noon by the cannons fired later, a boarding school for
the Hlebine School (see p25), from this tower. Dating from boys of noble parentage.
where works by Ivan Večenaj the 13th century, it is one of the
and Mijo Kovačić stand out, oldest buildings in the city.
and artists from other regions At one time this square tower
(Ivan Rabuzin, Slavko Stolnik had a bell, which announced
and Matija Skurjeni). Among the closing of the city gates
the sculptures are several by each evening. Its name comes
Petar Smajič. from the latin campana
latruncolorum – bell of thieves –
r Church of SS. Cyril anyone left outside at night ran
the risk of being robbed.
and Methodius The tower originally stood
Sv. Ćiril i Metod alongside the southern side of
Sv. Ćirila i Metoda, Ćirilometodska the walls of Gradec. Even at that
ulica 1. Tel (01) 48517 73. time, the walls, nearly 2 m (6 ft)
thick, were built with chains
First built in around 1830 in inside them as an anti-
Neo-Classical style by the earthquake measure.
architect Bartol Felbinger The tower now houses a
(1785–1871), the church was gallery. It is worth climbing to
rebuilt after the earthquake of the top for spectacular views Rich Baroque interior of the Church
1880 in a Neo-Byzantine style over the city. of St Catherine

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