Use your time in Zagreb wisely, get to know the best open and tucked away spaces, make sure you feel the real pulse of the city – join us! Take more experiences and great photos home with you, let’s enjoy Zagreb together. This photo tour can be modified to your time frame and preferences. You can choose to visit the best sightseeing photo locations, or pick a specific route such as churches, museums, hidden backyards, hearty cafes and bars, historic or modern places of interest. Specific locations include the Well of life by the renown sculptor Ivan Meštrović, the Sun And The Planets installation in several locations, the garden of the Archaeological museum, the Grič cannon in the Lotrščak tower, popular meeting places like the Bulldog pub and many more. Browse the lively Dolac open air market, climb the Upper Town area, spend time mingling with the locals and focus on Austro-Hungarian architecture. Your photographer-guide knows Zagreb intimately and is able to teach many photographic techniques. Rely on him/her to give you a feeling for the local life and a way to use photography in capturing its essence. The city of Zagreb, capital of Croatia, is on the historic and political threshold between East and West, illustrating both the continental and Mediterranean spirit of the nation it represents. The city is protected from the cold northern winds by the mountain of Medvednica and opens up to the rest of the world thanks to a spacious plain and the Sava river. Zagreb, with a population of nearly one million, contains almost a quarter of the entire population of Croatia. Over the centuries, the city was inhabited by people coming from all over Europe; and, in recent years, by people coming from different parts of Croatia, ensuring a rich cultural life. Zagreb is a safe city whose doors are always open. The façades of Zagreb’s buildings reflect the ebb and flow of history, while its streets and squares bear witness to the coming together of the many cultures that have shaped the identity of this laid-back capital. Zagreb as we know it today dates back to the Middle Ages, and the settlements on two hills: secular Gradec, today known as the Upper Town; and clerical Kaptol. A trading center below the two settlements evolved into what is now the main square of Ban Josip Jelačić.There is also a legend of how the city was named. A governor, exhausted and thirsty from battle, asked a girl named Manda to grab (zagrabi, in Croatian) him out some water from a spring. The spring is now named Manduševac and the city became Zagreb.