The Lower Town is an U shape called “Lenuci’s Horseshoe” greenish area with a lot of architecture buildings and 6 squares. They are
- King Tomislav Square
- Nikola Aubic Zrinski Square
- Ban Jelacic Square (Republic Square or Main Square)
- Petar Preradović Square
- Marshal Tito Square
- Marulic Square
"Lenuci’s Horseshoe" is about 1 mile east to west and 400 meters north to south. Along the way, our local guide shown us the wonderful greenish of Nikola Subic Zrinski Square which is also refered as Zrinjevac. It has an elegant promenade with plane trees imported from Trieste, a wrought-iron bandstand, fountains and sculptures of notable figures.
The local tour guide also showed us the Meteorological Post which is a meteorological pole that you can check the temperature and air pressure which coordinated with a 24-hour dial.
Next we visited the Cathedral along with its Renaissance Walls.
We also wondered to the Dolac Market area to see the fresh fruit, vegetable, meat, fish and craft stands along with lots of shoppers.
Next, we were at the Stone Gate and the chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary which holds a painting of the Virgin that was miraculously saved from a devastating fire in the year 1731.
Then, we walked by the St Mark’s Church in the St Mark’s Square. It has roof tiles decorated with the coats of arms of the Triune Kingdom of Croatia, Dalmatia and Slavonia.
We walked by the City Hall where people can get married and the divorce museum which is only 2 minutes walking distance from the City Hall. Our tour guide joked about the closeness of these two facilities. If one is fast enough, you can get married and then get divorce within two minutes.
In the afternoon, we boarded the bus and rode to Opatija. On the way we passed by Rijeka where is birth place of both leading male and female characters of the "Sound of the Music". The Julian Andrews’ character’s grandfather is the one who invented and built the 1st torpedo. In earlier stage, Rijeka was well known for building torpedoes After Italy occupied Rijeka, they sold the pattern to others and it lost the prestige of the place building torpedoes. It was a two and half hours drive from Zagreb to Opatija.
Opatija is a well known vacation place with fresh air quality which is best for people with asthma. It is a little resort town by the Adriatic Sea. The beach here is rocky and cement built. The water is cleare and beautiful.
We stayed at Hotel Admiral which is by the water with wonderful ocean view and nice seaside walkway.
Prior to our dinner at hotel, we were able to walk along the seaside walkway to enjoy this wonderful resort town and the Adriatic Sea.
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