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Dark side of Zagreb's history
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The tour follows a personal story of four historical people who took part in the gruesome events that had happened in the dark streets of Zagreb. Follow their footsteps while they try to avoid the fate that mercilessly awaits them.
- a new concept of tour-guiding - the tour guide is joined by a virtual guide from the past
- a night tour that gives a new perspective of Zagreb
- crimes, torture, public executions, prostitution, witch-hunts, murder - Zagreb has a dark past
May 1st to Sep 30th every day at 8 pm
Oct 1st to Dec 15th no tours
- Guidance by a certified local guide with 500+ tours experience
- Multimedial guidance through the history of Zagreb
- Gratuities (optional)
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Ban Jelacic Monument
Join us in front of the horseman statue at Ban Jelačić (main) Square. The tour operates from Monday to Sunday. The tour starts at 6 pm from October to April, and at 8 pm from May to September. The guide will be waiting for you with an orange umbrella.
Old Cellar
A basement in the oldest part of Zagreb, where strange things happen during the night.
Main Square of the Old Town
A public torture site, where common folk were entertained.
Tuškanac Forest
An execution site with no way out.
The White Tower
Another torture site, where many innocent people ended up after failing to prove their innocence.
The Abandoned Graveyard
An almost forgotten place of burial, where the ones that no one remembers lie./p>
More about this tour
Dark Zagreb tour is a journey to the past. While the tour guide will present you with problems that bothered the people of Zagreb a couple of centuries ago, the virtual guide is going to help you experience the way those problems affected real people's lives. Kings, queens, witches, peasants and prostitutes, all real historical figures, meet their fate in a tour that combines facts with fiction.
The tour starts at Ban Jelačić Square, from where the group is taken into an old basement where dark spirits await. The route covers the exact locations of many gruesome historical events. Executions, torture, epidemics, adultery, witch-hunts, rape and murder - the city streets hide dark secrets of the past waiting to be unraveled. Will there be a happy ending? Or is the darkness of the past too pitch black? Find out on a tour which brings a new, innovative concept to Zagreb's tour guiding scene!
