Summary
Damir Agačić: Moj Zagreb tak imam te rad
The book contains numerous reproductions of the most beautiful postcards of the city of Zagreb and its surroundings.
In this monograph about Zagreb, old postcards are used as the main source of information about the development of the city and everyday life in it. They date from the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century and testify to the modernization and urbanization of the city, when it began to expand rapidly to the south, east and west. This is the time when many representative palaces are built in Zagreb, numerous scientific institutions are founded, new streets and squares are built, the national theater, the main station, lighting, sewage and water supply are introduced, parks and gardens are arranged.
Textual part in Croatian, German and English.
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