Banski dvori ("Ban's Court")
Baroque-Classicist palace of the former viceroys, now the seat of government, bombed by jets in 1991.
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This guide to Banski dvori, the old palace of the bans on Zagreb's St. Mark's Square, drops you into one autumn afternoon in nineteen ninety-one, as Croatia's first president, Franjo Tuđman, sits down to lunch with Yugoslavia's two most senior federal officials. Croatia is trying to leave Yugoslavia, and the federation's army is watching. Stand facing the facade with the roofline in view, and keep the Parliament and Saint Mark's Church at your back.
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