In a ceremony held in Zagreb in mid-January, the great Croatian actors, Lela Margetić and Pero Kvrgić, were handed a plaque by the Guinness Book of World Records for the cult performance “Exercises in Style”. It was declared the longest running theater performance in the world that still stars the same cast. This show has been on the stage in Croatia for 41 years.

The same as the year before, Zagreb did it again in 2008 and surpassed the one million mark in the number of overnights, which were mostly realized by foreign tourist. The number of business gatherings held in the city last year was also almost twice as many as in 2007, however, with a fewer number of participants because Zagreb lacks the capacity to organize large congresses.

The charismatic musician and former frontman of the rock group “The Police” will hold a concert on February 11th at the Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall. The audience in Zagreb will hear the singer go classical and perform music from the renaissance period together with the Bosnian lute player Edin Karamazov.

About 120 documentaries from around the world will be shown at the fifth jubilee of ZagrebDox, the region's biggest international festival of documentary films. This will take place from February 23rd to March 1st at the Student Center.

The Museum of Arts and Crafts will be host to the Zagreb Wine Gourmet Festival on March 27th and 28th. Participants will be able to sample about 500 premium and select wines from around the world. The festival also includes a rich program of culinary presentations and workshops.

The Carnival festivities in Zagreb County will include the biggest such event in the region, the Samobor Fašnik, which is expected to attract 200,000 guests this year. In addition, the 100th jubilee anniversary of the Turopolje Fašnik will be celebrated in Velika Gorica.

The hotels in Zagreb are preparing romantic Valentine's Day packages which come full of surprises and guarantee exciting and unforgettable memories for couples in love.

Along with the prestigious National and University Library, which also organizes cultural events, a modernly equipped library will be opened in the second half of February at the Faculty of Philosophy as the second largest library in Croatia in terms of the number of volumes.