Dora Krupić is a character from the novel “The Goldsmith’s Gold”, published in 1871. It is considered to be Croatia’s first real historical novel. It is about a 16th century love story involving a nobleman and a town girl called Dora, the beautiful daughter of a goldsmith. Dora ends up being poisoned by a local barber, because she refused his marriage proposal. A bronze sculpture was commissioned in her honour in 1929.

The Stone Gate (Kamenita Vrata) in Zagreb's Gornji Grad is the last remaining of the five gates which once stood. They were the entrances through the walls around Gradec, the district next to Kaptol. The Stone Gate, which was the eastern Gate to Gradec town, was built in the 13th Century, as was the adjacent tower. As the story goes, in 1731 a fire destroyed much of this area, burning all the houses to the ground.