Pittsburgh Post Gazette/Chicago Tribune: Zagreb graduates to the first rank of European cities - by Robert Cross

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Zagreb graduates to the first rank of European cities - by Robert Cross

Over the Cold War years and again during the conflicts of the 1990s, Zagreb had filtered through my imagination mostly as a black-and-white image of a troubled and fragmented Yugoslavia.

Now, in person, the capital of an at-last independent Croatia shows off its colors and vibrancy. Maybe it always was thus, but it never came to mind as one of the must-see cities on the Continent.