Upper Town (Gornji Grad)

Zagreb began as two separate medieval settlements — Gradec, granted a royal charter in 1242, and Kaptol, the cathedral town under the bishop. The two were rivals for centuries before they were joined in the 19th century as Croatia’s capital under the Habsburgs. The Stone Gate, one of the old gates of Gradec, survives with a shrine to the Virgin that is still a place of prayer, and the funicular that links the hills to the lower town has run since 1893.