Zagreb Travel Guide 2026: Upper Town, Museums & Prices

The main square, with the statue of Ban Josip Jelačić on horseback (1866). It is the meeting point of the city: "under the clock" is where locals arrange to meet.

Price: free · Time needed: 15 minutes.

The open-air market just above the main square, under red umbrellas since 1930. Fruit, vegetables, flowers and local cheese upstairs, meat and fish in the hall below.

Price: free · Hours: mornings, best before 11:00 · Tip: try sir i vrhnje (fresh cheese with cream).

The neo-Gothic Cathedral of the Assumption was rebuilt after an earthquake in 1880, with its two tall spires (108 m). The 2020 earthquake broke the top of one spire, and restoration is still ongoing, so parts of the interior may be closed.

Price: free · Time needed: 20 minutes · Tip: check opening before you go.

The old border between Kaptol and Gradec, now Zagreb's busiest street for bars and cafés, with colourful 19th-century houses.

Price: free · Tip: come back in the evening.

The only surviving gate of medieval Gradec. In a great fire in 1731 everything burned except a painting of the Virgin Mary inside the gate. Today it is a small shrine full of candles, where locals stop to pray.

Price: free · Time needed: 10 minutes.

The symbol of Zagreb: a Gothic church whose roof is covered with colourful tiles showing the coats of arms of Zagreb and of the Kingdom of Croatia, Dalmatia and Slavonia (added in 1880). Next to it are the Croatian Parliament and the Government building.

Price: free to see from outside; the interior is often closed · Time needed: 15 minutes.

A 13th-century defensive tower on the edge of the Upper Town. Every day at 12:00 a cannon is fired from the tower, a tradition since 1877. Next to it is the Strossmayer Promenade, with views over the Lower Town.

Price: tower a few euros · Tip: be there at noon; the bang is louder than you expect.

Opened in 1890, it is one of the shortest public funiculars in the world: 66 m long, a ride of about a minute between the Lower and Upper Town.

Price: about €0.66 · Tip: you can also walk up the stairs in 3 minutes, but the ride is part of the fun.

Started by two artists after their own break-up in 2006, this museum displays objects donated by people from all over the world, each with the story of a relationship that ended. It is funny, sad and very human. It won the Kenneth Hudson Award for the most innovative museum in Europe in 2011.

Price: about €7–8 · Hours: daily · Time needed: 1 hour.

One of the most beautiful cemeteries in Europe, opened in 1876, with long ivy-covered arcades and domes designed by Hermann Bollé. People of all religions are buried here.

Price: free · Time needed: 1 hour · Tip: bus 106 from the cathedral, or a 25-minute walk.

Croatia's most famous park: 16 terraced lakes connected by waterfalls, with wooden boardwalks over the water. UNESCO site since 1979.

Price: about €40 June to September, €23 in shoulder season, €10 in winter · Getting there: bus about 2 to 2.5 hours · Tip: book a timed ticket online in summer and arrive at opening.