Original scientific paper
SAMOBOR - THE FAVORITE TOURIST PLACE OF ZAGREB'S POPULATION IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
Danijel Vojak
; Institut društvenih znanosti "Ivo Pilar", Zagreb
Abstract
In the middle of the Nineteenth Century Zagreb's population started with visiting and resting in the Zagreb neighborhood. Most of them started to visit Samobor and its countryside where they spent free time and recover from exhaustion and other illnesses. Ljudevit Smidhen was the first entrepreneur who had invested in one of the tourist development in Samobor. He has open bathing resort in St. Helena, small village in Samobor neighborhood, in 1862. Tourist form Zagreb is started in 1870 with building first cottages in Samobor. Management of Samobor’s savings bank had built Hidropatsko bathing resort in Samobor in 1889. After opening railway line between Zagreb and Samobor in 1901, tourists from Zagreb started in great number to visit Samobor. Samobor and its area was called Zagreb favorite tourist place.
Keywords
Zagreb, Samobor; tourism; 19th Century
Hrčak ID:
97793
URI
Publication date:
21.12.2012.
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