The Red Hot Chilli Peppers, one of the greatest rock bands of today, will hold a massive open-air show at Zagreb's Hippodrome on 29 August 2012. This is part of their world tour during which they will promote their most recent album “I’m With You”.

From 2012 onwards, Zagreb will benefit from a direct airline connection with Qatar’s capital Doha owing to Qatar Airways. The airline has announced the expansion of its route network with the addition of seven new direct airline flights – two of them to Europe, more precisely to Zagreb and Helsinki.

In mid-October, the most attractive street in Zagreb, Tkalčićeva, received yet another attractive addition to the existing host of galleries with unique products. The Area of Manufacturing Freedom (PMS) is a place where patrons will be able to view and purchase handmade products made by up-and-coming local artists.

A representative exhibition “Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese; The Great Masters of Renaissance Beauty”, will be on display at the Klovićevi Dvori Gallery until 22nd January 2012. For the first time ever, anthological works of art commissioned by Croatian clients and painted by famous renaissance artists of the 15th and 16th centuries are being displayed in one place.

As part of their world tour, the Irish – American band Dropkick Murphys will hold their first Croatian concert at Tvornica Kulture on 22nd January 2012.

Again this year, during the period leading up to the Christmas holidays, the Croatian National Theatre will stage the ballet The Nutcracker, which has been enjoyed by many generations of Zagreb’s citizens ever since it was first put on the repertoire of this theatre in 1931.

In addition to the already existing and very valuable collection of sculptures, another representative exhibition, “The Legacy of the Atelier Meštrović 1991-2011”, will be on display until 18th March 2012 and it will present previously unknown sculptures by the greatest Croatian sculptor.

Do you know why the period of socialism in Croatia was considered modern and why in the 60s of last century Zagreb was one of the most interesting centres of modern art in Europe? The answers to these and similar questions can be found at the new exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art “Socialism and Modernity: Art, Culture, Politics 1950-1974” which you can see until 5th February 2012.