Entertainment on the city’s streets

For this year’s Zagreb Time Machine, the Zagreb Tourist Board has once again prepared a diverse programme, which will be taking place on the city’s squares and streets until the end of September.

For this year’s Zagreb Time Machine, the Zagreb Tourist Board has once again prepared a diverse programme, which will be taking place on the city’s squares and streets until the end of September.

This year’s Zagreb Time Machine has begun. It is a time when Zagreb becomes a big city stage, featuring various concerts, dance performances and many other acts. The Zagreb Tourist Board has, once again this year, prepared a diversity of interesting programmes for the citizens of Zagreb and their guests.

Traditionally, promenade concerts will be taking place every Saturday between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. in the most beautiful downtown park, Zrinjevac, but also on Sundays in a new location - Maksimir Park, near the gazebo. Between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., visitors will be entertained by the salon music ensemble Strauss, while the gazebo at Zrinjevac will be the venue for various musical genres, including waltzes, marches, operetta songs, Italian canzone, jazz, rock and evergreens suitable for dancing. Each Saturday between 10 a.m. and noon, and every Sunday between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., members of folklore groups will sing and dance along the squares and streets in the city centre in order to demonstrate local customs, whilst handing out traditional treats or fruit to passersby. Concurrently, the legendary green market, Dolac, a popular tourist attraction just off the main square, will feature demonstrations of how trade once functioned. Every Friday and Saturday, between 8 a.m. and 1 p.m., by the statue of the “market-lady” (kumica), erected in honour of the thousands of kumica who have fed the citizens of Zagreb throughout the centuries, farmers wearing traditional folk costumes will be selling seasonal fruits and vegetables grown on their land in the vicinity of Zagreb.
 
Every weekend, during the morning hours, the squares and streets of the Upper Town will resonate with the sounds of old city songs and love ballads played by street musicians, while on Saturdays, between 5 and 8 p.m., visitors will have the opportunity to stroll amongst numerous costumed characters from Zagreb’s past, such as the great Croatian poet Antun Gustav Matoš or the novelist and first Croatian female journalist, Marija Jurić – Zagorka, as well as many other interesting personalities.

Tourists may also be interested in watching the Changing of the Guard of the Cravat Regiment, which will take place every Saturdays and Sundays in front of St. Mark’s Church in the Upper Town, while dance evenings at Zrinjevac will begin in late June. However, that is not all, as there will also be entertainment along Zagreb’s most popular cafe street and pedestrian zone, Tkalčićeva. Performances by various musicians and street entertainers will take place every Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
 
More information about this year’s programme of the Zagreb Time Machine can be found online at http://www.zagreb-touristinfo.hr/?id=340&l=e, or in brochures obtained at tourist info centres, or at the venues of the various events themselves.