When the Dolac Market was opened with a grand ceremony in 1930, it was one of the largest and most beautiful markets in Europe at the time, and it remains the largest and most well-known market in Zagreb today. At the very top of the left stairway leading to the market, there is a proud statue of a woman, a “kumica” holding a woven basket on her head. The statue is a permanent monument to the thousands and thousands of women from the areas surrounding Zagreb who would come to the city carrying baskets full of products from their gardens and farms every day, often walking for many kilometers with a heavy loads on their heads.
So that the memory of the “kumice”, the hardworking guardians of the good spirit of old Zagreb, would not be embodied only in the form of a statue, you will be able to see women in folk costumes from Prigorje, who will help bring the memory of the thousands of women who have fed the citizens of Zagreb over the centuries back to life, at the Dolac from June to the end of October.