In addition to the tourist-information centre that has existed for years now at the main city square, the Zagreb Tourist Board has recently opened a new tourist-information centre at Pleso Airport, where specially trained informers offer their services in several languages.

A specialized agency, High Class Relocation, helps foreigners who come to live and work in Zagreb with various important aspects of life in a new country. For instance: locating suitable accommodation, having a work permit issued, finding an adequate physician, or even completing the simplest of everyday chores.

An attractive music-specific bookstore and reading room, Rockmark, was opened in mid-February in the city centre, on Berislavićeva Street. It is the first such bookstore in Croatia, where visitors can read musicians’ biographies, enjoy socializing with people of similar music interests, exchange ideas, and be informed about the latest news from the world of music.

Have you had enough of high budget films with expensive special effects and a clichéd, formulaic Hollywood plot? Once again, Zagreb will offer something different – the 9th Revue of Amateur Film, the popular RAF, which will take place between the 21st and the 27th of March, featuring more than 200 films.

In order to mark several anniversaries significant to the national education system, the Croatian School Museum will feature a large exhibition, “Teachers in Croatia 1849-2009”. Open until the end of March, it will offer a comprehensive insight into the development of the teaching profession in Croatia.

Between March 16th and April 30th the Klovićevi Dvori gallery will feature an exhibition of the latest works by renowned Croatian painter and designer, Boris Bućan. The exhibition entitled “Woman on the Moon” will consist of some one hundred works of oil as well as acrylic on canvas.

With the backing of the in-house choir and orchestra, actors from the Croatian National Theatre of Split will perform one of the best known Croatian operettas on February 13th at the Dražen Petrović Basketball Centre. After 19 years, the Zagreb audience will once again have the opportunity to enjoy famous arias of the “Split Aquarelle”, one of the most recognizable symbols of the city of Split.

Everyone is invited to the Free Carnival State, one of the oldest and largest carnival festivities in Croatia, where masks will rule until February 16th