Stone Gate (Kamenita Vrata) Zagreb

Zagreb , Croatia
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    Religious site, Landmark/point of interest

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  • 1

    Zagreb

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    ... of town and home to many of the churches and best views of the city.  Here we found an oddly placed shrine in the old Stone Gate that lead to the town.  According to the legend, an intense fire consumed most of the gate in 1731, except for a painting ...

  • 2

    What can I say....

    ... has a cool mosaic roof which you always see in photos of Zagreb. Checked out the upper and lower town and saw the old stone gate where there is a shrine to an icon of the Virgin Mary which miraculously survived a fire. There were lots of people praying ...

  • 3

    World Record Breaker

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    ... restaurants on to the Bloody Bridge, which is in fact a road and not a bridge at all, and on towards the Stone Gate. The Stone Gate is an entrance to the upper town and has remined totally intact for centuries.  Under the gateway is a small ...

  • 4

    Sunshine in the Croatian Capital

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    ... Dali Museum we went to last summer in Catalonia. Then we made our way out of the old town through The Stone Gate, past several wonderful statues which could have been anyone, but certainly could not go unphotographed. The Cathedral was ...

  • 5

    Low Season in Croatia

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    ... to spread our luggage around and take up an entire six seat compartment for fear of making new smelly friends. As it turns out, Croatia is not in the EU, so we had to deal with border patrol on both sides of the Hungarian/Croatian border. The ...

  • 6

    Sleepy Zzzzzzagreb

    Days 19-20 July 18-19, Zagreb, Croatia Getting to the hostel seemed fairly straight forward given the directions to get off on the 4th stop. What I didn't pay attention to is that the tram is not going to stop at a regular stop if no one pushes the stop ...

  • 7

    Zagreb

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    ... . It started raining lightly so I headed down Kamenita Street (past the oldest pharmacy in Zagreb, supposedly opened by Dante’s grandson) to the Stone Gate. Apparently in 1731 a devastating fire destroyed much of the surrounding area, but the gate ...

  • 8

    Rain sucks

    ... mansions). I even snuck into one courtyard so I could take some pictures of red roses around a fountain. Then it was down to the Stone Gate which is called the entrance to the Upper Town (the part I toured). It is a little walkthrough with a chapel to ...

  • 9

    Interesting day in Zagreb

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    ... with fortified walls built when under threat from the Ottoman turks in the 1500's fortified walls           Stone Gate - a vision of the virgin Mary was seen during a fire so they burn candles and pray all day here   ...

  • 10

    Specimins, sarcophogi & pretty blue-green lakes!

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    ... Archbishop Stephanic's cathedral (very large and impressive, but some scaffolding, of course).  The tour also took us through the old stone gate and past St. Mark's Church (see tiled roof pic).  The roof has the coat of arms of Zagreb and the ...