Kaptol
Medieval bishop's hill crowned by a twin-spired neo-Gothic cathedral and fragments of old walls.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Kaptol in Zagreb starts at a cathedral clock stopped on one particular morning in November 1880, and the photographer who documented what that morning left behind. It then goes back to the bishop's walled hill and its centuries of feuding with Gradec, the traders' town next door, including a Christmas Eve in 1391. Best heard standing in front of the cathedral, where the clock is easy to find.
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