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Gornji Grad (Upper Town) is Zagreb's medieval core, a compact network of cobblestone streets, Baroque palaces, and intimate squares perched on a hill above the modern city. It's home to many of the city's most important historical and cultural sites.
Gradec (as Gornji Grad was historically known) received its charter as a free royal town from King Béla IV in 1242 after the Mongol invasion. For centuries it competed with the neighboring ecclesiastical settlement of Kaptol before the two merged to form modern Zagreb in 1850.