If we leave out the hills in one part of the town, Zagreb is a perfect town for cycling. vid Byrne (Talking Heads) on releasing his book Cycling Diaries
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As part of the 17th International Street Festival, Cest is d’Best, which will take place between June 5th and June 12th, Zagreb’s citizens and numerous tourists will once again be entertained on the city streets by hundreds of performers from all over the world.
Until August 31st, the permanent exhibit of the Museum of Arts and Crafts will feature Caravaggio’s priceless masterpiece of Baroque art, “Supper at Emaus”. It has been borrowed from the Pinacoteca di Brera of Milan as one of the most beautiful gifts for Croatia’s accession to the EU.
At this year’s feature-length edition of Animafest Zagreb 2013, which will take place between June 4th and June 9th at Europa Cinema and the Cineplexx Centar Kaptol, fans of animation will truly come unto their own as they can look forward to a diverse programme of films as well as an array of concurrent events.
With the opening of the Educational Centre and the permanent exhibit space “Diversity of the World of Mushrooms” located on the city’s central square, Zagreb has got its first ever Mushroom Museum. The exhibit consisting of more than five thousand mushrooms will teach visitors about the world of fungi.
Take a ride around Zagreb on a rented bicycle, which can now be hired at six locations in the city centre for a price of 8 kuna per hour. Reach your destination faster or embark on a sightseeing tour on two wheels.
To the great joy of the Zagreb audience, one of the greatest orchestras in the world, the Vienna Philharmonic, will open the new season of the Zagreb Philharmonic on September 27th at the Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall.
This year’s Sava Day featured the 1st International Race “The Sava Cycling Tour 2013”. Eight experienced cyclists, representatives of bicycling associations from four countries through which the Sava River flows – Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia, took part in the tour.
The Memorial Centre of the Zagreb Rocket Attacks 1991 – 1995 has recently been opened in the city centre, on Petrićeva Street, in memory of the civilians who were killed and injured in the rocket attack which occurred on May 2nd 1995.