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Sightseeings Varazdin
Patacic-Puttar Palace stands at the corner of Cesarceva and Zagrebacka streets, in front of the southern entrance into the town centre. It is the two-storey angular house. Palace was finished in mixed Baroque and classicist styles by the Varazdin builder Joseph Hauk in 1745. Opposite Patacic-Puttar Palace is the building of the Croatian National Theatre, built in 1873, the historicist building in the neo-Renaissance style, designed by the Viennese architect Hermann Gotlieb Helmer, and constructed by the Zagreb builder Janko Jambriscak.
The parish church of St. Nicholas, the patron saint of Varazdin, stands in the middle of Freedom Square. Originally a Romanesque building, the church was still in 1672 a Gothic structure. The present church with side chapels and the broad sanctuary was constructed during the Baroque restoration between 1753 and 1761.
The church of the Nativity of Christ, was built in 1729; the three-storey monastery by the church was finished in 1749, and has a classicist façade; the monastery chapel on the floor has the altar adorned with statues made by the 18th-century Maribor master J. Straub.
North of the monastery of St. Ursula there is the most distinguished historic building of Varazdin, Stari Grad (the Old Town), the centre of feudal administration for centuries. Since 1925 it accommodates the collections of the Town Museum of Varazdin. It was built between the 14th and the 19th centuries and the oldest preserved parts include two Gothic towers, erected on earlier fundaments. The medieval fortress was reconstructed in the 1560s into a modern Renaissance fortress.
Sermage Palace is a two-storey corner building in Rococo style from 1759 rises at the southern end of Miljenko Stancic Square. The front façade is ornamented with medallions. In the second half of the 18th century was built the representative hall with a stone lantern attached to the Baroque galleries facing the courtyard. The palace accommodates, today, the Gallery of Old and New Masters. Lisak Tower on Ban Jelacic Square is a massive, two-storey building from the 16th century.
The Town Hall is the most significant historical building in Varazdin. It is on the northern side of Tomislav Square and a part of it is probably a Romanesque building with the visible Gothic arch of the former entrance in the tower; reconstructed in the 16th century under the supervision of the Varazdin builder Juraj Fleischman.
Draskovic Palace is on the eastern side of Tomislav Square, the construction of the present palace and the Rococo façade date back probably to the second half of the 18th century. The axis of the main front has a mid-18th century stone portal featuring the coat of arms of the Draskovic family and the added southern wing of the building hosted the sessions of the Croatian Diet (Sabor) from 1756 to 1776.
The church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary is opposite the Town Hall. It was originally a Jesuit church, then Pauline, and today it is the cathedral of the Varazdin Diocese. In 1656 was constructed the portal of the church featuring the coat of arms of the Draskovic family and the present form of the façade dates from the 18th century. The altars of St. Ignatius of Loyola from 1742 and St. Francis Xavier from 1743, the statues made by the Varazdin sculptor Ivan Adam Rosemberger, are also very fine examples. The vault of the church sacristy was painted with frescos by the Varazdin painter B. Grueber in 1772. The Loreto chapel, built before 1659, with the tomb of the Draskovic family is near the church. The three-storey Jesuit monastery by the church was built between 1679 and 1691 by Jakob Schmerleib.
East to the church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary is the building of the old Varazdin grammar school, today the Bishop's Ordinariate It was partly built in 1651 and expanded in the 19th century. South of the church and the monastery is Zakmardi Palace, the monumental building of the former Jesuit seminary. The building was intended to accommodate poor students of the Varazdin grammar school. It was constructed between 1668 and 1672 by the Varazdin builders Jakob and Blaz Jancic.