See the real Zagreb on this city tour with street artists

After an hour with Krešimir, one of Croatia’s leading street artists — a co-founder of the Zagreb Street Art Festival, who paints under the pseudonym Leon GSK — I’m starting to see Zagreb anew. We go down an alley, past a mosaic with ‘Nazovi svoju Mamu’ (Call your mother) set in damaged asphalt — the work of Frenchman Ememem — to find dancing skeletons, a masked girl with swirling hair, a delicately stencilled geisha and a cartoonish teenager in oversized trainers. The more I look, the more I see: a Warhol-esque Campbell soup tin labelled Media’s Fear Soup; a faded mural of a couple with turkey heads on craft brewery Medvedgrad, one of the first commercial works in the city; a ship whose wake trails across the pavement.

Author: @NatGeoTravel

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