Arrived in Zagreb around eight in the morning. Passed the Džamija on my walk to the hostel.
Ice cream. Hostel entrance.
Statue of Marija Jurić (pen name Zagorka), a famous Croatian writer. Couple taking wedding pictures.
The guy in the red, bending down gave me a free fritule to try, which is doughnut-esque specialty of Croatia.
The tie, or rather the cravat, is an important part of Croatian culture and several sources trace the origin of the tie to Croatia.
- Chaille, Francois(1994). Le grande histoire de la cravate. Paris: Flammarion. It explicitly confirms cravat’s Croatian origin.
- Italian monograph Miss Cravatta, published in 1996 in Como, the most famous European and world cravat-manufacturing centre, decidedly associates occurrence of the cravat with the arrival of Croatian soldiers to France during the reign of Louis XIV.
- Encyclopaedia Britannica reports that the noun cravat developed from Crabat, Cravat, Croatian and that it dates from 1656.
