My Mother's Hometown

Some of you may not know, but my Mom was born and grew up in Zagreb, Croatia. She emigrated to the States to go to college, and eventually became a US Citizen. I've been to Zagreb once before, but I never really had the chance to explore it in my own way.

Marko was able to take some time off work and show me around the city. It was cool to see some of the places my Mom has talked about, and hear Marko's perspective about how the city is now. It's gives me a faint idea of what it might have been like growing up in a Communist city in former Yugoslavia.

City Square

Largest church in Eastern Europe

Two girls praying

Notice the dates these people were buried here, waayy before America even existed.

We ended up at a WWI museum, where I touched actual weapons used by soldiers nearly a century ago. Makes you reflect a bit.

Century-old guitar that just looked cool

Nice park near the city center

Full-gallop

I thought this guy had an interesting shape about him.

Here are some pics from the "Stone Gate," a place that once was an entrance to the city when it was fortified. Now, you can go and light a candle (for a small fee, of course), and pray for someone to get over a sickness. Apparently it works; the plaques on the walls are people thanking this place for healing a loved one.







We ventured up to above the older part of the city, with many houses probably 100+ years old. This is the part of Zagreb that's been slow to "modernize."

For hundreds of years this cannon is fired at noontime

Very cool roof on a church

My mom's old high school, now apparently a museum

I noticed this sign as we were heading home. That's just funny: