Ban Jelačić Square
Grand central plaza dominated by a bronze equestrian statue of a nineteenth-century viceroy.
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About this audio guide
This audio guide to Ban Jelačić Square in Zagreb begins on a July night in nineteen forty-seven, when the city's new communist rulers set to work on the bronze horseman at its centre. It follows the rider, the nineteenth-century viceroy Josip Jelačić, the Vienna foundry master Anton Dominik Fernkorn who cast him, and Antun Bauer, the collector whose sculpture museum enters the story. You'll also hear why Zagreb couples once said they would meet under the tail.
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