NATALIJA UGRINA

Me, mid grocery run, with a 1,700-year-old Roman column for company — welcome to the SPAR inside Diocletian's Palace There's a version of this story I've told at dinner parties in the US more times than I can count. It usually starts the same way: someone asks where I'm from, I say Split, Croatia, and they nod politely like they've maybe heard of it. Then I mention that there's a Diocletian's Palace grocery store — a full working supermarket tucked inside a 1,700-year-old Rom

Looking for weird museums in Zagreb ? You're in for a treat! Even though Zagreb is worldwide known for its Advent Christmas market, many people don't know this Croatian capital is home to some of the world's most unusual and quirky museums. From the world's first Museum of Broken Relationships to the original Hangover Museum , the weird museums in Zagreb have pioneered concepts that have been copied across the globe. I've visited my share of weird museums around the world—fr

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