From Zagreb's Harmica to Upper Town - Zagreb photography

It's nearing autumn. 

If you've been in Zagreb in the summer, you'll know how the city is pretty barren at this time of year. Especially its city centre.

In the previous posts I've mentioned the earthquake being the primary reason for this - Zagreb people leaving the old part of town, as the buildings there are no longer safe. It's like a wound that gets deeper each time, widening, and there's no antidote to that.

Either demolish the buildings which bear the scars from the earthquake or make adaptations to them, secure them better.

People chose to leave everything alltogether, and it's now a good moment to take possesion of these spaces at a much lower cost.

And hope that the times are going to get better.

So, in the next few lines I'll show you some great vistas and photos I took on many of my walks from Trg Bana Jelacica, the main square in Zagreb to Upper Town (Gornji Grad), from Tuškanac to right below Sljeme, the suburb called Šestine.

A stroll from Zagreb's Harmica to Gornji grad

The above photo is from an elevation that looks down onto Zagreb's Lower town. You'll find many sights there, just like this building right across this view located in Ilica street, its other side on the Petar Preradović Square, which the Zagreb people name "Cvjetni trg". "Trg" means square.

It's called "Cvjetni trg" because there are flower stalls on the square and it stands for a small market. Events are very often held here, mostly on weekends.

The place is most crowded on Saturdays, when the people of Zagreb, those who want to be seen, walk in their best clothes, just aching to be spotted by lurking news reporters and photographers. The fashionable people will appear on Instagram and Facebook accounts of daily Croatia newspapers, some even inside most read newspapers.

But were on the Upper Town of Zagreb now, where some of the oldest architectural gems await tourists.

In the photo below you can see the Zagreb Cathedral, its spires hidden behind the scaffolding which many claim should be left there, because the sight seems aesthetically pleasing to the eye of locals.

And the place I shot the photo from is called "Popov toranj". It's a tower-like structure which houses the Astronomical Society in Zagreb, where you can come up on a clear day and gaze at the sky, even look at the stars through a telescope.