Jane’s Walk activities in Zagreb

Cultural Centre Trešnjevka and its project “Trešnjevka Mapping” is the local host for Jane’s Walk activities in Zagreb.

“Trešnjevka Mapping” participates in Jane’s Walk activities since 2015.

Please, check our articles about international seminars for organizers and walk leaders organized by “Trešnjevka Mapping” activists:

• “Jane’s Walk: A City from the Walking Perspective, Examples of Good Practice” (May 2018), with participation of organizers and walk leaders from Vienna, Ljubljana and Zagreb (link to the article)
• “Play the City Game, it’s Never the Same” (October 2019) with participation of organizers and walk leaders from Vienna, Budapest, Trieste, Split, Pula, Daruvar and Zagreb) (link to the article)

Jane’s Walk Zagreb was sporadically financially supported from year 2015 until year 2026 by The Ministry of Culture and Media of Republic of Croatia, Tourist Board of City of Zagreb and City Office for Culture and Civil society of City of Zagreb. In year 2026. Jane’s Walk Zagreb   was financialy supported by Končar – elektroindistrija d.d.

Here’s the list of all the guided walks included in Jane’s Walk activities in the years 2015 to 2026!

2026:

More detailed presentation of this year’s walks can be seen HERE (in Croatian only).

• JW1: 05.05.2026. (Tuesday), 17:00 – Novi Zagreb à la française (walk leader: Pavel Gulin Zrnić), meeting point is at plateau in front of Museum of Contemporary Art, Novi Zagreb, Avenija Dubrovnik 17
• JW2: 07.05.2026. (Thursday), 17:00 – Bulgarian travelling gardening in Zagreb (walk leaders: Ivana Perić and Ksenija Banović), meting point is at the entrance of the complex of Croatian Radio and Television (HRT), Prisavlje 3
• JW3: 09.05.2026. (Saturday), 10:00 – Along Prigorje hills (walk leader: Damir Fofić), the meeting point is at the plateau in front of the Church of St. Petar and Pavao in Kašina
• JW4: 10.05.2026. (Sunday), 16:00 – Mother’s Day with Radio Zagreb and “mothers of invention” (walk leader: Tomislav Popović), the meeting point is in front of the pharmacy shop in Kamenita ulica, near The Stone Gate.
• JW5: 12.05.2026. (Tuesday), 17:00 – South shore art walk (walk leader: Iva Silla), meeting point is at the Pyramide at the crossroads of Avenija Većeslava Holjevca and Avenija Dubrovnik (between MSU i INA office building)
• JW6: 14.05.2026. (Thursday), 17:00 – Dirty Ol’ Town (walk leader:Jelena Barišić Tihava), meeting is at Old Zagreb’s model in Ulici Augusta Cesarca
• Zagreb county JW walk 1: 15.05.2026. (Friday), 18:00 – Along the way of the forgotten wells of Vrbovec (walk leader: Sanja Prijatelj), the meeting point is at Vrbovec Railway station (train from Zagreb Main railway station to Vrbovec departs at 17.09)
• JW7: 16.05.2026. (Saturday), 17:00 – ZG stairs #5 (walk leader: Leila Filipović), meeting point is at the stairs at the entrance of Dotrščina memorial forest.
• JW8: 17.05.2026. (Sunday), 17:00 – New face of old Peščenica – with new Smogovci (walk leader: Milan Dalmacija), the meeting point is at the intersection of Kušlanove ulica and Bužanova ulice, at the car entrance to the school, near caffe bar Klinček.
• JW9: 20.05.2026. (Wednesday), 18:00 – Where Vrapčak kisses Sava (walk leader: Faruk Islamović), the meeting point is in Španskom, on bus station “Antun Šoljan” of bus line 115 (near intersection of Ulica Antuna Šoljana, Ulica Gustava Krkleca andi Ulica Jurja Šižgorića)
• Zagreb county JW walk 2: 23.05.2026. (Saturday), 10:00 – Women’s traces in Samobor – Stories of women that influenced the town (walk leader: dr.sc. Jadranka Dujić Frlan), the meeting is on Trg kralja Tomislava, Samobor (near the well)
• JW10: 24.05.2026. (Sunday), 09:50 – Springtime in Podsljeme district – antistress therapy (walk leader: Renata Tatara), the meeting is on tram/bus terminus Dubrava, platform where bus line 208 departs
• JW11: 26.05.2026. (Tuesday), 17:00 – If the trees could talk… (walk leader: Katarina Fruk), the meeting point is at Park Stara Trešnjevka – central part of the park, near the announcement board

2025: 

• 08.05.2025.: From St. Peter’s Graveyard to Peter’s Street (walk leader: Lana Bunjevac), 72 participants
• 09.05.2025.: Secrets of the Sesvete’s bunkers (walk leaders: Damir Fofić and Ivan Pavičić), 40 participants
• 10.05.2025.: Kajzerica – Past, Present, Future (walk leaders: Mirjana Sagar Muškinja and Gordana Pasanec), 60 participants
• 11.05.2025.: Get to Know Brezovica (walk leaders: Irena Borovina and Daliborka Kaurin), 41 participants
• 15.05.2025.: History and Art Walk around Špansko (walk leader: Faruk Islamović), 11 participants
• 16.05.2025.: The origin of Gajnice: Workers’ settlement for Jedinstvo factory 1949 – 1957 (walk leader: Goran Arčabić), 73 participants
• 17.05.2025.: Springtime’s Walk around Veliki Vrh (walk leader: Renata Tatara), 31 participants
• 18.05.2025.: A Musical Walk along Ilica (walk leader: Nada Bezić), 77 participants
• 21.05.2025.: ZGštenge vol. 4 (walk leader: Leila Filipović), 49 participants
• 22.05.2025.: What the Architects gave to Sesvete? – Past, Present, Future (walk leaders: Morena Želle and Višnja Kljajić), 13 participants.
• 24.05.2025.: A Manor House and its surroundings in Sesvetski Kraljevec (walk leader: Mladen Perušić), 25 participants
• 25.05.2025.: Medvednica from A to M (walk leader: Tomislav Popović), 43 participants
• 28.05.2025.: Maksimir Past-Present-Future (walk leader: Davor Domijan), 52 participants

In total 13 walks with 587 participants, in average 45.

2024: 

• 09.05.2024.: “From Western railway station towards Črnomerec: Industry in the neighbourhood” (walk leader: Ana Toth), 68 participants
• 10.05.2024.: “Željeznička kolonija, Maksimirska naselja and Ravnice neighbourhoods” (walk leader: Lana Bunjevac), 69 participants
• 11.05.2024.: “To Sljeme, to Sljeme – a visit of industrial complex Sljeme in Sesvete” (walk leader: Damir Fofić), 63 participants
• 12.05.2024.: “Taking computer paths to SRCE (“Heart”)” (walk leader: Mladen Sokele), 37 participants
• 12.05.2024.: “Feel me, remember me” (walk leader: Maja Pavičić), 33 participants
• 14.05.2024.: “Scenes of Vrbik neighbourhood – from mud to the urbanistic congestion (walk leaders: Melita Čavlović and Antun Sevšek), 57 participants
• 15.05.2024.: “ZG stairs vol. 3” (walk leader: Leila Filipović), 35 participants
• 16.05.2024.: “Everything 16” (walk leader: Saša Šimpraga), 50 participants
• 17.05.2024.: “ZG Hip Hop retro walk” (walk leader: Krunoslav Jakopanec Kac), 40 participants
• 18.05.2024.: “Along hills and valleys to Markuševec” (walk leader: Renata Tatara), 36 participants
• 19.05.2024.: “A musical walk through Novi Jelkovec (walk leader: Nada Bezić), 22 participants
• 23.05.2024.: “Malešnica, Špansko, green locations (walk leader: Mina Plančić), 30 participants
• 24.05.2024. : “Along a Roman road from Sesvete to Jelkovec, from past to future  (walk leaders: Morena Želle, Višnja Kljajić and Nives Curić), 42 participants
• 25.05.2024.: “A time machine journey around Markuševec on the trails of Branimir Gušić’s “Medvednica” (walk leader: Tomislav Popović), 34
• 26.05.2024.: “About the building of Petar Preradović square and Nikola Tesla street (walk leader: Mladen Perušić), 66 participants
• 29.05.2024.: “An adventure at the edge of the city: Abandoned quarry near Podsused!” (walk leader: Vanja Radovanović), 43 participants

In total 16 walks with 725 participants, in average 45.

2023: 

• 02.05.2023.: “Green microambients of Knežija, part 2” (walk leaders: Ana and Veljko  Armano Linta), 16 participants
• 03.05.2023.: “ZG stairs 2.0” (walk leader: Leila Filipović), 45 participants
• 10.05.2023.: “Around the wasteland (a round of the Prudinec – Jakuševec waste repository” (walk leader: Saša Šimpraga), 23 participants
• 12.05.2023.: “Tin buildings of Borongaj” (walk leader: Lana Bunjevac), 46 participants
• 14.05.2023.: “Following the traces of mills of Medveščak creek” (walk leader: Mladen Sokele), 52 participants
• 17.05.2023.: “A musical walk around Maksimir” (walk leader: Nada Bezić), 72 participants
• 19.05.2023.: “Orchards of Jarun” (walk leader: Vesna Janković), 41 participants
• 25.05.2023.: “From Klara Horvat to Ban Sarajeva and back – a walk over, beneath and along the thin lines that make the borders between the City and countryside” (walk leader: Vanja Radovanović), 37 participants
• 27.05.2023.: “Maksimirska road – the craftsmen avenue (about old and new crafts at the Maksimirska road)” (walk leader: Rosana Ratkovčić), 42 participants
• 28.05.2023.: “Beautiful vistas and protected landscapes of Čučerje” (walk leader: Renata Tatara), 58 participants

In total 10 walks with 432 participants, in average 43.

2022: 

• 06.05.2022.: “Sava and its lakes on Zagreb’s ‘Wild west'” (walk leader: Vanja Radovanović), 39 participants
• 07.05.2022.: “From mountain mills to Sovinjak and Park of the newlyweds” (walk leader: Renata Tatara), 22 participants
• 07.05.2022.: “Wires and bunkers of Varoško rebro hill” (walk leader: Tomislav Popović), 11 participants
• 08.05.2022.: “Zagreb, in times when it still didn’t exist – before the year 1094” (walk leader: Mislav Gregl), 42 participants
• 08.05.2022.: “Forgotten gardens and promenades of the old Zagreb” (walk leader: Ana Toth), 139 participants
• 13.05.2022.: “90 years of Volovčica district” (walk leader: Lana Bunjevac), 53 participants
• 14.05.2022.: “All faces of Dubravica creek” (walk leader: Mladen Sokele), 45 participants
• 20.05.2022.: “A round around Maksimir” (walk leader: Saša Šimpraga), 55 participants
• 21.05.2022.: “Pastoral motifs of Zagreb – an urban landscape walk along Kustošak and Črnomerec creeks” (walk leader: Sara Stojaković), 36 participants
• 21.05.2022.: “Čulinec – as it was once …” (walk leader: Domagoj Augusta), 20 participants
• 22.05.2022.: “A musical walk along Green horseshoe” (walk leader: Nada Bezić), 78 participants
• 22.05.2022.: “About construction of Prilaz Gjure Deželića, from 1860. to 1960.” (walk leader: Mladen Perušić), 55 participants
• 25.05.2022.: “Are you playing gumi-gumi?” (walk leaders: Petra Bilić Križan and Anet Bilić), 11 participants
• 27.05.2022.: “ZG stairs” (walk leader: Leila Filipović), 64 participants
• 29.05.2022.: “A walk through Voćarska community” (walk leaders: Ivana Hanaček and Velibor Mačukatin), 55 participants

In total 15 walks with 725 participants, in average 48.

2021:

• 07.05.2021.: „My friends Frane Petrić, Ignjat Đorđić, Marko Marulić, Ruđer Bošković: Croatian latinists on Zagreb’s streets“ (walk leaders: Mislav Gregl and Tamara Tvrtković), 25 participants
• 08.05.2021.: „University alley“ (walk leaders: students of History of art Mislav Franc, Sara Ivanković, Barbara Kao, Ana Klem, Marija Lucija Marohnić, Karla Dorkić, Anouk Taylor, Vida Zlatić, Luka Meštrić, Hana Modrić with their mentor prof. Jasna Galjer), 25 participants
• 08.05.2021.: „Old Peščenica – garden city“ (walk leader: Lana Bunjevac), 41 participants
• 09.05.2021.: “The books of our streets“ (walk leades: Margareta and Davor Peršić from NGO „Dove tail“), 27 participants
• 13.05.2021.: „Green microambients of Knežija“ (walk leaders: Ana and Veljko Armano Linta from Satellite Educations), 31 participant
• 14.05.2021.: „Seven palm tress in a nameless district“ (walk leader: Saša Šimpraga), 37 participants
• 15.05.2021.: „Prečko, the most musical part of Zagreb“ (walk leader: Nada Bezić), 27 participants
• 15.05.2021.: “Marble, rocks and iron of Medvednica“ (walk leader: Tomislav Popović), 23 participants
• 21.05.2021.: „Groves of Borongaj – opposites attract“ (walk leader: Domagoj Augusta), 43 participants
• 22.05.2021.: “It’s time to gather on Gathering source!” (walk leader: Vanja Radovanović), 33 participants
• 23.05.2021.: „Shop windows in the city centre during two centuries – from Radićeva street over Trga bana Jelačića and Ilica to Medulićeva street“ (walk leader: Mladen Perušić), 40 participants
• 28.05.2021.: „A walk along Vuger creek (Sesvete)“ (walk leader: Marijo Spajić), 24 participants
• 29.05.2021.: „See a tree in a forest“ (walk leaders: Daša Filipčić and Nikolina Turčinović Dupor from NGO „Green click!“), 35 participants

In total 13 walks with 411 participants, in average 32.

2020:
(All activities for this year are made as virtual events, except the sreet festival in September, because of isolation measures for worldwide Corona pandemy)

• 06.05.2020., From the Cartodrome to the thrown-preservative Kingdom: Let’s walk on the southwestern city border, text and photos by Vanja Radovanović), link (in Crotian only)
• 13.05.2020., Trešnjevačka diagonal walk – from one side to another on hidden paths, video story by Vanja Radovanović and Goran Pinter), link (in Croatian only)
• 20.05.2020., How the City loves its Park, video story by Jasna and Goran Pinter, link (in Croatian only)
• 27.05.2020., Water paths of  Gornji Stenjevec, video story by Mladen Sokele and Sanja Morić, link (in Croatian only)
• 26.09.2020. we organized the street festival “Jane’s Walk in Zagreb: Tratinska street wakes up!” with which we wanted to start the process of reactivation of this once street that was once a main district shopping street and today is neglected, noisy and with lot of empty shops and offices.The idea was to talk to people about the past, present and future of the street and to hear tehir opinions on that topics. The festival had a diverse program with contribution of around 20 artists, NGOs and shops that covered the whole day. Here’s a link to the text about the event (currentyl only in Croatian language)

2019:

• 04.05.2019., Searching for the Schönbach garden (walk leader: Saša Šimpraga), 39 participants

[GP 2019.]

• 05.05.2019., Dubrava doubles (walk leader: Domagoj Augusta), 17 participants

[GP 2019.]

• 08.05.2019., Watching the city through the Fedor’s urban phenomena eyes (walk leader: Goran Pinter), 37 participants

[JS 2019.]

• 10.05.2019., Gračani: From a mill to a plate (walk leader: Mladen Sokele), 31 participant
• 11.05.2019., Living with Črnomerec creek (walk leader: Mirela Ježina), 40 participants
• 11.05.2019., A musical walk through the Upper town (walk leader: Nada Bezić), 69 participants
• 12.05.2019., From Savica to Šanci: Where did they get lost (walk leader:Jasminka Klemenčić Zlica), 34 participants
• 17.05.2019., A walk through the centre of Donji Vugrovec (walk leader: Mladen Perušić), 22 participants
• 18.05.2019., Hiking starts at the centre of Zagreb (walk leader: Lana Bunjevac), 35 participants
• 19.05.2019., I live, therefore I’m living in Podsused (walk leaders: Ivana Haničar Buljan and Jasna Galjer), 35 participants
• 23.05.2019. , Factory builds the city (walk leader: Melita Čavlović), 45 participants
• 24.05.2019., ORA Sava, Release channel Sava-Odra-Sava, University hospital Blato: The meeting points of the Zagreb’s socialistic past and who-knows future (walk leader: Vanja Radovanović), 27 participants
• 25.05.2019., Dugave all around (walk leader: Ksenija Banović), 55 participants
• 25.05.2019., In the search for the neighbourhood of our dreams (walk leaders: Daša Filipčić and NIkolina Turčinović Dupor from Zeleni klik! NGO), 17 participants
• 26.05.2019., Following the traces of the forester Leustek along the foot of Medvednica hill (walk leader: Tomislav Popović), 27 participants
• 26.05.2019., Lower part of Bliznec creek – a part of the nature in the industrial space (walk leader: Milan Dalmacija), 30 participants
• 29.05.2019., Worker’s Trešnjevka (walk leaders: students of the history of art with their mentor Josipa Lulić), 31 participant

2018:

• 11.05.2018. Dotrščina, Bačun and some other funny sounding words beneath Sljeme (walk leader: Vanja Radovanović), 34 participants
• 12.05.2018., Green dots of urban Maksimir (walk leader Daša Filipčić), 35 participants
• 13.05.2018., From a star to the Star (walk leader Saša Šimpraga), 41 participant
• 17.05.2018., Following Štefanovec creek – get to know the former eastern border of Zagreb (walk leader Domagoj Augusta), 17 participants
• 25.05.2018., Dugave, 40 years from the construction start (walk leader Ksenija Banović), 35 participants
• 26.05.2018., A walk through gardens of Prečko (walk leaders Young green gardeners, Zeleni klik! volunteers), 63 participants
• 26.05.2018., Along the Podsused cable car track (walk leader Goran Pinter), 19 participants
• 27.05.2018., Construction and reconstruction in Botanical garden in Zagreb for its 120 years anniversary (walk leader Mladen Perušić), 35 participants
• 27.05.2018., Get to know all sides of three-in-one Kozari, paths, branches and roman numbers (walk leader Jasminka Klemenčić), 28 participants

In total 9 walks with 307 participants, in average 34.

2017:

• 06.05.2017. By train from the river port to the airport or A visit to a biggest unused public space in city of Zagreb (walk leader: Vanja Radovanović), 32 participants
• 07.05.2017. Jarun, about the building for World University games, 1987. (walk leader: Mladen Perušić), 14 participants
• 12.05.2017. From the fountain to the fountain (walk leader: Jasminka Klemenčić – Zlica), 23 participants
• 20.05.2017.  A walk around University farm (walk leader: Antonio Jurčev), 41 participants
• 21.05.2017. Zapruđe and Utrine – get to know the places where buildings are getting older faster than people (walk leader: Petra Bilić Križan), 19 participants
• 26.05.2017. All the roads are leading to Rome (walk leader: Saša Šimpraga), 57 participants
• 27.05.2017. The Workers Road: From the factory center to the center of capital (walk leader: Milan Dalmacija), 26 participants
• 28.05.2017. A Bear hill under Bear mountain (walk leader: Goran Pinter), 42 participants

In total 8 walks with 254 participants, in average 32.

Sudionici JW šetnje / Jane Walk participants [GP 2017.]

2016:

• 06.05.2016. Factories of Trešnjevka – a craddle of industry of Trešnjevka (walk leader: Vanja Radovanović), 47 participants
• 07.05.2016. IX gimnasium – in, around and on (walk leader: Sonja Lušić Radošević), 21 participants
• 07.05.2016. A walk along Sava at the western gate of Zagreb (on “S” letter) (walk leader: Andreja Kolić), 42 participants
• 08.05.2016. A walk through the City of Youth Granešina (walk leaders: Mladen Perušić & Miroslav Čulk), 32 participants.
• 13.05.2016. 5,13 kilometers of Kustošije at Friday 13.5. (walk leader: Mladen Sokele), 27 participants
• 14.05.2016. All faces of Bliznec creek  (walk leaders: Anita Končar i Vanja Radovanović), 15 participants
• 21.05.2016. Peščenica archipelago (walk leaders: Saša Šimpraga i Anica Mazura), 69 participants
• 22.05.2016. Two and the half retentions of Sljeme (walk leader: Goran Pinter), 31 participants.
• 28.05.2016. The Smogovci family (walk leader: Milan Dalmacija) – 40 participants

In total 9 walks with 324 participants, in average 36.

Sudionici JW šetnje / Jane Walk participants [GP 2016.]

2015:

• 24.04.2015. From Booksa bookstore to the European square (walk leader: Saša Šimpraga), 42 participants
• 08.05.2015., Knežija and Srednjaci, from a village over suburb to the city (walk leader: Vanja Radovanović), 67 participants
• 08.05.2015., Leafy Zagreb – urban wilderness rediscovered  (walk leaders: Iva Silla, Andrea Pisac), 20 participants
• 08.05.2015., A circle on Maksimir (walk leaders: Anita Končar), 23 participants
• 08.05.2015., Zagreb West – Podsused (walk leaders: Andreja Kolić), 25 participants

In total 5 walks with 177 participants, in average 35,4..

Voditeljice JW šetnje / JW leaders [GP 2015.]

(Vanja)