Sunday in our Maksimir park- Q'ART in your neighborhood

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Zagreb Classic Open Air Festival

Classical music enthusiasts are set to be enchanted by the mesmerising melodies of renowned musicians from both Croatia and around the globe at the Zagreb Classic Open Air Festival. From the 21st of June to the 1st of July, the festival will grace the vibrant city of Zagreb, offering a unique stage beneath the twinkling stars on the magnificent King Tomislav Square. Zagreb Classic open air has been held since 2016, and among artists and music lovers it enjoys the cult status, further reinforced by this year’s edition.

 

How it is possible that this size of drone was not shot down ?

People in Croatia's capital Zagreb were rudely awakened when a military drone crashed in the city late last night.

 Zagreb's mayor Tomislav Tomasevic said "it's amazing that no-one was injured". Croatia's president said there was no sign the country had been targeted. Markings on the debris included Cyrillic lettering and a five-pointed star. Local experts said these suggested that the drone was a Soviet-era TU-141 reconnaissance aircraft.

 Croatia's government confirmed that the drone had passed over Hungary, which borders both Ukraine and Croatia, before crashing in Zagreb. 

 President Zoran Milanovic said it was a serious incident: "We need to review certain procedural issues and determine how it is possible that this size of plane was not shot down on the way from Ukraine to Zagreb." He was concerned that Croatia had received no warning of the incoming drone, even though it had spent the best part of an hour flying across Hungary - a fellow member of Nato. He was alarmed that "an unsophisticated aircraft" had apparently evaded detection. 

 There is now concern that Croatia would not be ready if the worst happened and the conflict spread. Critics point out that no air raid sirens sounded in Zagreb and that many Croatian shelters have fallen into disrepair. 

 

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Zagreb is ready to accept refugees from Ukraine

Zagreb Mayor Tomislav Tomasevic said on Friday that the city was "absolutely ready" to accept refugees from Ukraine and that it was possible to provide them with accommodation at the hostel Loda in Skradin, which is part of the Vladimir Nazor branch of the Zagreb Holding multi-utility conglomerate. 

Tomasevic said that, in consultation with the Zagreb Holding management, he approved the request of the head of the Sibenik-Knin County civil protection team, who today requested accommodation for potential refugees from Ukraine in Skradin.

 The mayor said the City of Zagreb would make a few more locations available for the accommodation of refugees, depending on the needs. 

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  Croatia was the victim of a brutal military aggression of the Slobodan Milošević regime 30 years ago, it knows best what that means and understands Ukraine.

 

Zagreb today

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The City of Zagreb has issued a statement about crow attacks on humans.

Zagreb crows usually keep themselves to themselves, rummaging around looking for food or getting into sometimes comical altercations with local pigeons.

 These highly intelligent birds tend to avoid people, but when they're nesting, they're known for their potential for aggression.

 An official warning has been issued from the City of Zagreb following numerous crow attacks on humans.

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Take a look at the cute smallest museum in the world, the Triangle.

On the International Museum Day, which took place yesterday, May 18, Zagreb's unusual, unique, unconventional, not at all specific museum Antimuseum presented and opened another special and attractive exhibition. No less and no more, the smallest museum in the world, the Triangle, was opened within it. Seven museum collections are located in an area of ​​only 0.16 square meters, while the Antimuseum (Antua Bauera 19) was created according to the concept of the late artist Vladimir Dodig Trokut, whose realization was later taken over by his close circle of friends. 

Here are the details.

 

Zagreb wakes up to snow in spring

It's officially spring , but to us in the Croatian capital, it looks like the middle of winter.😕

 

Croatia’s top street artists brighten up Zagreb

Organised by the art collective Pimp My Pump and the Zagreb Tourist Board, last week the first cycle of a new project called Street Triptych was completed.

 

The central location of the project, the Tourist Board Visitor Centre (Trg bana Jelačića 11), was painted by Boris Bare, who said about the work named Herman Gollubé: “I gladly accepted the invitation of the Zagreb Tourist Board to paint the wall of the Visitor Centre on the main Zagreb square. In his hits, Ivo Robić dedicated special verses to Zagreb pigeons, or ‘feathered pilots’, as he called them.

 This time I gave one of them the role of the famous architect of Zagreb, Herman Bollé.”

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A Year After the Zagreb Earthquake

Today is a year since the earthquake that hit Zagreb and its surroundings, and most of the damaged buildings have not yet been rebuilt. That Sunday morning, March 22, will be long remembered by the citizens of Zagreb and its surroundings. At 6 hours and 24 minutes, many were awakened by a magnitude 5.5 earthquake. Two more powerful earthquakes soon followed.

 Every single person living in Zagreb can tell you their story of the potres of 2020.

 Here's a story by Iva Tatić, told through the lens of one building, on the corner of Đorđićeva and Petrinjska street.

Lakestock - For Love You Must Have Soul (Za ljubav treba imat' dušu)

Thousand days and nights Poured in to the moment There was no answer 

Because for the love you must have soul....

Merry Christmas !

Photo by Ivan Klindić

 

White Zagreb

First snow of the season.
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Zagreb’s healing heart

Zagreb’s healing heart (Voona for Okolo // Around festival, photo Borut Planinc) 

The earthquake that hit the Croatian capital last Sunday, the biggest in 140 years, amidst the coronavirus pandemic crisis has left Zagreb citizens shocked, scared and frightened.
While volunteers, authorities, civil protection, military and ordinary citizens organised to help their fellow residents in need, messages of support from Croatia and all over the world flooded social media, but one in particular stood out and quickly became the symbol of hope and healing for Zagreb residents – a patched wool heart covering a cracked facade of an old Zagreb building.
 The healing heart originally was conceived last August as a street art intervention by Zagreb based artist & designer Ivona (Voona Design) as a part of a street art project Okolo // Around.
 The heart-shaped wool piece placed on top of a wall crack was exhibited in Habdeliceva 1 on Zagreb’s Upper Town during the project and remains there until this day.
 The original idea behind the art had nothing to do with the catastrophe, the artist revealed – it was to show imperfections as something unique and not ugly but authentic and alive.
 But after Sunday, March 22 a new layer of meaning has been added to her art piece – people saw it as a message of hope for their wounded town and Ivona commented on her Instagram: Sadly, many Zagreb residents have lost their homes – the first informal estimates say around 7000 objects were struck and the reparations will last 2 to 7 years.
 Zagreb bounced back after the devastating 1880 earthquake and will bounce back again thanks to the spirit and unity of the people.
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The Morning After the Night Before

At 9 am, the National Civil Protection Headquarters held a press conference, briefing the public on the latest about the coronavirus crisis in Croatia, as well as the terrible earthquake that hit Zagreb on Sunday.
 Index.hr reports that the Headquarters is dealing with two crises, Minister Bozinovic said.
 "Our records show that 27 were injured in the quake, 18 of which were more serious. Twelve were hospitalized. The 15-year-old girl is in critical condition," he added. "According to the earthquake report, there were 37 earthquakes between 6 am Sunday and 6 am this morning, which is expected," Bozinovic added.
 He warned that citizens should be careful because Zagreb is now a seismologically active area.
 "The services have shown a high degree of organization and activity and I thank them all," Bozinovic concluded.

Coronavirus update 

Minister Beros said that as of Sunday at 4 pm, Croatia had 52 new cases, which is a total of 306 on Monday morning. "The Headquarters have decided to raise the work of epidemiological services to the highest level. All epidemiologists are on standby," Capak added. Minister Beros said that the health status of the patients had not deteriorated. Five people are on a respirator.

 

Zagreb after a series of earthquakes .

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 There were five earthquakes in all, ranging from 5.3 (the first at 06:24) to 3.0.
There has been extensive damage.

There are 254 confirmed cases of the coronavirus (COVID-19) in Croatia and 38 new cases as of yesterday. Five patients have recovered. There are currently 248 active cases in Croatia.

 

Happy New Year 2020!

Photo: T. Smoljanovic/Zagreb Tourist Board

 

New ‘spaceship’ CT scanner for Children’s Hospital in Zagreb

The room with the new CT scanner, worth about HRK 5.5 million, was adapted to make the medical procedure more pleasant for children. The ‘spaceship’ design was created by Marina Cumbo in collaboration with marketing agency Izone.
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