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Stone Gate

The Stone Gate, Kamenita vrata in Croatian, is the only surviving gate of the old wall of Gradec, Zagreb's Upper Town. The Golden Bull of 1242 made Gradec a free royal city and required it to build walls; the gate is thought to have been built around 1266 as a rectangular tower with a passage for carriages, and its present appearance dates from the 18th century. Beneath the arch there is a chapel dedicated to the Virgin, patron of Zagreb. On the night of 30 to 31 May 1731 a fire swept through the Upper Town and reached Kaptol; on the third day, among the ashes, a painting of Mary with the Child appeared intact, with only its wooden frame burnt. A widow placed a small altar in the arch and devotion has grown ever since. Today there are benches and a table for lighting candles, and the marble walls carry engraved prayers.

Things to do at Stone Gate: 3 missions

• Look at the gate tower from Kamenita StreetFrom Kamenita Street, look at the rectangular tower with its carriage passage, the only stretch left of the Gradec wall.
• Read the prayers engraved on the marble wallsWalk along the walls of the chapel and notice the prayers carved in the marble; read some of them.
• Find the golden icon of the Virgin beneath the archStep into the chapel beneath the arch and find the golden icon of Mary with the Child, the image that was found intact after the fire of 1731.

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Source: Wikipedia - Stone Gate