The future, for which I really worked, is mine*
Day 3 (Part 2) - Tuesday, June 26 - Zagreb
Gradec and Kaptol
St George and the [dead] Dragon. This statue is notable precisely because it shows St George after the act, instead of the more popular "imma stab you in the face!" position.
From here: "There are two equestrian statues of St George and the Dragon in Zagreb. This one is located near Stone Gate, the old entrance gate to the Gradec, an old fortified town from middle age, nucleus of modern Zagreb. This statue shows St. George after his fight with Dragon as he pays respect to the dead Dragon. The statue is on this location since 1994. Before that it was located in the garden of the Mazuranic house in Jurjevska Street 5. The original location of this St George and the Dragon statue was in Mallnitz, Austria, in front of Villa Liebermann. In 1937 the statue was given as a gift to Mr. Mazuranic and it was in Zagreb since then. The authors of the statue were Austrian sculptors Kompatscher and Winder."
Zagreb Cathedral
Zagreb Cathedral inscription in the Glagolitic alphabet
A tree stump in a church with a sign? This calls for questioning looks and google.
Google Translate, with tweaks, gives us: "When Jesus was born this was [an] oak twig. When [it] was 200 years [old] [a] flood collapsed and washed [it] away in the river basin. It remained there until yesterday. Today [it] is here, before our eyes."
Wiki has this to say about Nicola Tesla: "...a Serbian-American inventor, physicist, mechanical engineer, electrical engineer, and futurist. He was an important contributor to the use of commercial electricity, and is best known for his contributions to the modern alternating current (AC) electrical supply system. [...] Tesla's patents and theoretical work also formed the basis of wireless communication and the radio. [...] Tesla's work fell into relative obscurity after his death, but since the 1990s, his reputation has experienced a popular culture comeback.[18] [...] The SI unit measuring magnetic field B (also referred to as the magnetic flux density and magnetic induction), the tesla (T), was named in his honor (at the CGPM, Paris, 1960)."
Parliament of Croatia
Modern art, I can't.
I can't remember who she was, but folks like her.
Kamenita vrata (lit. stone gate), only remaining gate of the Gradec.
Ibid, from the other entrance.
Devout plaques of thanks to the Virgin Mary (I'm guessing - "hvala" means "thank you"). Extra points if you find the one that's upside down.
Statue of the Virgin Mary at the entrance to the Kamenita vrata. Wiki says, "the image of Virgin Mary is said to be only thing that hasn't burned in the 17th century fire."
Ban Jelačić Square (officially called Trg bana Jelačića, also called Jelačić plac)
Count Josip Jelačić of Bužim, "a member of the House of Jelačić and a noted army general, remembered for his military campaigns during the Revolutions of 1848 and for his abolition of serfdom in Croatia."
Zagreb Botanical Garden
Park's information: "Every year many pupils throughout the World, as well as pupils from Croatia (coordinated by Croatian-Japanese Sociaty) make senbadsuru - a group of thousand paper origami cranes held together by strings, and send them to Chidlren's Peace Monument in Hiroshima Memorial Park."
Other
This sculpture is awesome. There's three men who have been sentenced to death. Two are dead or dying, but the third is laughing singing in the face of death.
Marshal Tito Square
Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb
Miroslav Krleža Lexicographical Institute
King Tomislav Square, which is in front of the Zagreb Central Station
Art Pavillion
The city has a glorious park avenue.
Drawing people on trees, the usual.
Croatian National Bank
Meštrović Pavilion, which our guide book said was an architectural must-see, can't-leave-the-cty-without-it, and all those touristy adjectives. It exagerated.
"Tošo Dabac, Sheep on Ilica, 1933-1937" where Mr Dabac is the photographer and Ilica is a main street in the city. That's right, there were sheep running wild in the capital!
At Miramare, it was little boys strangling swans and storks. Here it's grown men strangling snakes. [insert joke here]
I was amused. (Well I was many things, including "Ugh, gods, this fucking shit campaign of ignorance.")
...why?
Random Facts: The ball-point pen was "a tool developed from the inventions by Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, an inventor and a citizen of Zagreb." and the term cravat, which the French use to mean "tie" (i.e. the suit accessory), is "an accessory named after Croats who wore characteristic scarves around their necks in the Thirty Years' War in the 17th century".
* Nicola Tesla, on patent controversies regarding the invention of Radio and other things
Gradec and Kaptol
St George and the [dead] Dragon. This statue is notable precisely because it shows St George after the act, instead of the more popular "imma stab you in the face!" position.
From here: "There are two equestrian statues of St George and the Dragon in Zagreb. This one is located near Stone Gate, the old entrance gate to the Gradec, an old fortified town from middle age, nucleus of modern Zagreb. This statue shows St. George after his fight with Dragon as he pays respect to the dead Dragon. The statue is on this location since 1994. Before that it was located in the garden of the Mazuranic house in Jurjevska Street 5. The original location of this St George and the Dragon statue was in Mallnitz, Austria, in front of Villa Liebermann. In 1937 the statue was given as a gift to Mr. Mazuranic and it was in Zagreb since then. The authors of the statue were Austrian sculptors Kompatscher and Winder."
Zagreb Cathedral
Zagreb Cathedral inscription in the Glagolitic alphabet
A tree stump in a church with a sign? This calls for questioning looks and google.
Google Translate, with tweaks, gives us: "When Jesus was born this was [an] oak twig. When [it] was 200 years [old] [a] flood collapsed and washed [it] away in the river basin. It remained there until yesterday. Today [it] is here, before our eyes."
Wiki has this to say about Nicola Tesla: "...a Serbian-American inventor, physicist, mechanical engineer, electrical engineer, and futurist. He was an important contributor to the use of commercial electricity, and is best known for his contributions to the modern alternating current (AC) electrical supply system. [...] Tesla's patents and theoretical work also formed the basis of wireless communication and the radio. [...] Tesla's work fell into relative obscurity after his death, but since the 1990s, his reputation has experienced a popular culture comeback.[18] [...] The SI unit measuring magnetic field B (also referred to as the magnetic flux density and magnetic induction), the tesla (T), was named in his honor (at the CGPM, Paris, 1960)."
Parliament of Croatia
Modern art, I can't.
I can't remember who she was, but folks like her.
Kamenita vrata (lit. stone gate), only remaining gate of the Gradec.
Ibid, from the other entrance.
Devout plaques of thanks to the Virgin Mary (I'm guessing - "hvala" means "thank you"). Extra points if you find the one that's upside down.
Statue of the Virgin Mary at the entrance to the Kamenita vrata. Wiki says, "the image of Virgin Mary is said to be only thing that hasn't burned in the 17th century fire."
Ban Jelačić Square (officially called Trg bana Jelačića, also called Jelačić plac)
Count Josip Jelačić of Bužim, "a member of the House of Jelačić and a noted army general, remembered for his military campaigns during the Revolutions of 1848 and for his abolition of serfdom in Croatia."
Zagreb Botanical Garden
Park's information: "Every year many pupils throughout the World, as well as pupils from Croatia (coordinated by Croatian-Japanese Sociaty) make senbadsuru - a group of thousand paper origami cranes held together by strings, and send them to Chidlren's Peace Monument in Hiroshima Memorial Park."
Other
This sculpture is awesome. There's three men who have been sentenced to death. Two are dead or dying, but the third is laughing singing in the face of death.
Marshal Tito Square
Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb
Miroslav Krleža Lexicographical Institute
King Tomislav Square, which is in front of the Zagreb Central Station
Art Pavillion
The city has a glorious park avenue.
Drawing people on trees, the usual.
Croatian National Bank
Meštrović Pavilion, which our guide book said was an architectural must-see, can't-leave-the-cty-without-it, and all those touristy adjectives. It exagerated.
"Tošo Dabac, Sheep on Ilica, 1933-1937" where Mr Dabac is the photographer and Ilica is a main street in the city. That's right, there were sheep running wild in the capital!
At Miramare, it was little boys strangling swans and storks. Here it's grown men strangling snakes. [insert joke here]
I was amused. (Well I was many things, including "Ugh, gods, this fucking shit campaign of ignorance.")
...why?
Random Facts: The ball-point pen was "a tool developed from the inventions by Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, an inventor and a citizen of Zagreb." and the term cravat, which the French use to mean "tie" (i.e. the suit accessory), is "an accessory named after Croats who wore characteristic scarves around their necks in the Thirty Years' War in the 17th century".
* Nicola Tesla, on patent controversies regarding the invention of Radio and other things