The Parish Church of St Luke the Evangelist
Croatia is one of the latest “It Countries” at the top of every tourist’s European must-see agenda. Its capital city is Zagreb, which can be further refined into the New Zagreb area, and refined further still to find the Travno quarter within. At the very centre of this quarter lies a pocket of green parkland, and a short distance away, looms something altogether gargantuan: the megavolume apartment block, Mamutica. True to its name – Mamutica means “Mammoth” in English – this 20-storey monolith is one of the largest communal housing blocks in southeast Europe, and is home to around 5000 residents, making it the largest building (by volume) in all of Croatia. But we are not on a mammoth-hunting expedition. No, to find the quarry of this pursuit we must look to the interstitial space between the monster and a small park nearby. Here, we find the Parish Church of St Luke the Evangelist: the heart of the Travno quarter, and the soul it so verily needed.
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