• 1. What was hidden under the Museum
• 2. Before Zagreb
• 3. Finds at the Site of Discovery
• 4. First Recorded Use of the Name of Zagreb
• 5. The Royal Free Town on Gradec
• 6. Conflict, Punishment, Prejudice
• 7. Medvedgrad
• 8. The Ottoman Threat
• 9. The Emblems of the City
• 10. Laška Ves and Nova Ves
• 11. Kaptol
• 12. The Building of the Cathedral
• 13. The Main Portal of the Cathedral
• 14. The Interior of the Cathedral
• 15. The Restoration of the Cathedral by Bollé
• 16. The Parish and the Parish Church of St. Mark at Gradec
• 17. The Baroque Altars of St. Mark’s
• 18. The Guilds of Gradec and Kaptol
• 19. Master Craftsmen of Gradec and Kaptol
• 20. The New System of Municipal Government
• 21. Religious Orders Encourage Piety and Education
• 22. The Poor Clares of Zagreb
• 23. Veneration for the Blessed Virgin Mary
• 24. Magnates at Gradec
• 25. Parks and Walks
• 26. Life in the Lower Town
• 27. The Time of the Croatian National Revival
• 28. Ban Josip Jelačić
• 29. From the Homes of Zagreb People during the Biedermeier Period
• 30. Civic Societies and Clubs
• 31. The Foundations of the Modern City
• 32. Ilica Becomes the Main Commercial Street
• 33. From the Photographic Studio
• 34. The Lower Town
• 35. Theatre Life
• 36. Public Utilities
• 37. Life in Associations
• 38. Sensations from the Beginning of the 20th Century
• 39. Echoes from the Battlefield
• 40. House and Life
• 41. The Second World War
• 42. In Socialist Reality
• 43. The Zagreb School of Animated Film
• 44. Zagreb in Independent Croatia
• 46. The Study of Ivan pl. Zajc
• 45. Echoes of Events in Zagreb
• 47. August Šenoa and Zagreb
• 48. Tilla Durieux and her Art Collection
• 49. The Collection of Mechanical Musical Automata of Ivan Gerersdorfer
• 50. Dr Ante Rodin''s Collection of Old Packaging

Permanent Display 16. The Parish and the Parish Church of St. Mark at Gradec

The citizens of the free royal city at Gradec Hill had their own parish with the church of St. Mark in the mid-thirteenth century. The parish was first under the patronage of the bishop of Zagreb; in 1261, Queen Maria, the wife of King Bela IV of Hungary, placed it under the patronage of Gradec. The territory of the parish overlapped with the land that belonged to the royal city.

In the late 17^th century, the parish comprised the town and the adjoining villages of Trnje, Horvati, Sveti Duh and some others.

The original church was a Romanesque basilica made of brick. In the last quarter of the 14^th century, a three-aisle hall church was built, partly on the Romanesque foundations. Its columns were painted with Gothic frescoes. On the west side of the church, the municipality built the votive chapel of St. Fabian and St. Sebastian to protect the town from pestilence.

The south portal is figurally the richest and only Gothic portal in the continental part of Croatia. St. Mark’s was built and decorated by the masters of one of the numerous Czech workshops of builders and carvers.




A thorough restoration, undertaken in 1866 and completed in 1882, gave the church its present-day Neo-Gothic appearance and its striking roof of multicoloured tiles with the coats-of-arms of the city of Zagreb and of the three-partite Kingdom of Croatia.

Slavko Šterk