Stone Gate | Zagreb
Medieval town gate sheltering a candlelit shrine to a fire-surviving painting of the Virgin.
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This guide to the Stone Gate in Zagreb follows a bronze young woman in a niche of the passage and the novelist who invented her, August Šenoa, whose eighteen seventy-one story of a goldsmith's daughter and a nobleman's son gave Croatia its first real historical novel. It also turns to the candlelit shrine under the arch and the fire of seventeen thirty-one that made it. Best heard standing inside the arch, between the niche and the candles.
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