Park Maksimir
Historic English-style landscape park with oak woods, a chain of lakes and nineteenth-century pavilions.
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This guide to Park Maksimir in Zagreb follows the chain of lakes dug into an old bishop's forest, and a count that refuses to come out even. It turns on Archbishop Juraj Haulik and the work crews of eighteen thirty-nine, and on Bishop Maksimilijan Vrhovac, whose name the park still carries. Along the way you'll hear about a lake that stood dry for decades and a cottage rebuilt from nothing. Best heard walking the path beside the water.
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