Some thirty music performances, including concerts of classical music, jazz, fado, flamenco and traditional music from various countries, will be taking place throughout July, as part of the 25th Zagreb Summer Evenings Festival.

From the 15th to the 18th of October, Zagreb will host the participants of the International Healthy Cities Conference, organized by the WHO Regional Office for Europe. The first such conference was held twenty years ago, also in Zagreb.

Between the 16th and the 20th of July the International Folklore Festival, which was first held in 1966, will once again take place in Zagreb. This festival features presentations of authentic folklore customs from all parts of Croatia, in addition to many other cultures from countries all over the world.

The Zagreb Youth Theater has become a member of the European Theater Convention, which includes 35 theaters from all over Europe and, as of next year, it will participate in a great European project of the famous Orient-Express train aboard which numerous significant historic events took place.

The increasingly popular train travel takes excursionists from Zagreb to various destinations across Croatia. Since the beginning of the year, Croatian Railways has organized more than a hundred such trains, which have attracted a growing number of daytrip travelers.

The theater and music performers of the Amadeo Stage have once again organized a rich cultural program for this annual event. Taking place at the Museum of Arts and Crafts during the summer months, the 8th annual Amadeo Stage promises, once again, to be an impressive and interesting cultural extravaganza. The event will kickoff on the 5th July with an opening ceremony featuring the Go-Go Swing Orchestra and performances by many other well-known acts by domestic artists of the Croatian theater world.

The Histrion Theater Troupe has become almost synonymous with Zagreb. This year, they will entertain the city’s citizens, and their guests, with the play “Cardenio” by Stephen Greenblatt and Charles Mea. The world premiere of this play, inspired by a lost work of Shakespeare, will be held on the 11th of July and, from then until the 9th of August, it is scheduled to be performed almost daily.

The 3rd annual Rokaj Fest will take place this year between the 4th and the 6th of July, on the Island of Croatian Youth at Zagreb’s Jarun Lake. This exciting festival features several foreign performers of urban rock and pop music to complement the impressive lineup of numerous domestic regulars.