Walk in Osijek Multi-Cache
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This multi cache will guide you through center of Osijek. The cache is micro size. It contains only a logbook. Be careful of muglers. Inside there is code written with blue letters (ABCD). You will need it for mistery cache in Zagreb (GC47KM9).
Walk in Osijek consist of 5 stages that will show you interesting places in center of the Osijek.
Stage 1: Monastery of st. Jacob
The monastery and church were built on the estate of John Jacob of Eggendorff, which he donated to the Capuchins. The monastery was completed 1710th year, and between the 1721st and 1723rd year commenced with the construction of the church placed under the protection of st. Jacob the Apostle. The church was being built all to 1727. year. Upon completion of construction of the church was consecrated, by permission of the archbishop of Esztergom, by Đakovo-Bosnian bishop Petar Bakić de Lack 7th september 1727th year. All until the 1920th year the monastery and the church belonged to the Austro-Hungarian province. In the monastery from 1954th to 1971st the Seraphic Seminary and High School was active to preparative the priests. In year 1963. from monastery was subducted nearly the whole garden.
Question 1: Left from entrance there is door with 2 words on plate. Count the letters on those 2 words = A
Stage 2: Ante Starčević square
Ante Starčević Square is the central square of the city of Osijek, named after Ante Starčević. It is colloquially referred to as Trg ("the square"). It has the shape of the triangle. It is located in center of Osijek on the intersection of Josip Juraj Strossmayer street from the west, the small street Ribarska from the north, Kapucinska street from the east and Županijska street from the south.
Question 2: Count the stone benches around the square = B
Stage 3: Co-cathedral of St Peter and Paul [Konkatedrala sv. Petra i Pavla]
The multi-tiered 90-metre spire of this red-brick neo-Gothic beast provides the city with its defining visual trade-mark. The church was built in the 1890th on the initiative of energetic Đakovo-based Bishop Josip Juraj Strossmayer, who reckoned that a 3000-capacity parish church was just what a growing town like Osijek needed. The church is entered via a small door to the right of the main portal, overlooked by a ferocious-looking trio of gargoyles. The interior is a treasure trove of neo-gothic ornamentation, with a succession of pinnacled altars overlooked by exuberant stained glass windows. The interior was finished off in 1938-42 when leading Croatian painter Mirko Rački covered the walls and ceilings with brightly coloured frescoes illustrating episodes from the Old and New Testaments - most of which will be easily identifiable to anyone who paid attention during Bible class. Holy masses are held daily at 07:00 and 18:30 and on Sun at 06:30, 07:30, 08:30, 10:00, 11:30 and 18:30, July, August 18:30, Sun 06:30, 08:30, 10:00, 18:30.
Question 3: Go around the cathedral and count the doors = C
Stage 4: Croatian National Theater - HNK
Croatian National Theatre in Osijek (CNT) was founded in 1907. year. The most important and most famous theater in Osijek and Slavonia.
History
Before the foundation of the theater, the first performance was held in the 1735th in the Jesuit grammar school. Decades later, it began a long lasting effect of different German troops and theater scene in Osijek.
Only on 31 December 1866. was opened theatrically engineered building, where the CNT is today. It was designed by Karlo Klausner, and embellished by the characteristics of historicism with additional elements of Moorish architecture. The auditorium is in the Baroque layout.
Building National Theatre was renovated several times and arranged, and thoroughly 1985th year. However, during the Homeland war in 1991. the building was badly damaged and burned in the bombing JNA aggression, and Osijek CNT met the 85th season as homeless. Already in the 1994. theater was restored and renovated. Grand opening of theater 27th December 1994 . was attended by the then Croatian president Franjo Tudjman.
Question 4: What is the number on the building? = D
Stage 5: Monument to the Defenders
At the southern endof the Block Centar stands the Monument to the Defenders, a corten steel installation erected to pay tribute to Croatian soldiers who fought in the 1991. war. High plates form seven openings or gates, each with an increasing amount of space between them. Seen from a distance, the monument looks like a large wall, but closer inspection reveals the possibility to walk between the plates. The open space seems to suggest the openness and freedom that the artist hoped for after the end of the war, but take a look and decide for yourself.
Question 5: Count the high metalic plates = E
Final is at:
N 45°33.xxx E 018°40.yyy
xxx=A*B+C*10+D*E+1
yyy=(A+B)*2+C*D*E+9
Checksum=A+B+C+D+E=59
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Fgntr 1: jbeqf ortvaf jvgu "f" naq "c".
Fgntr 2: fgbar orapurf unir jbbqra gbc.
Fgntr 3: rnfg naq abegu fvqr.
Fgntr 4: 3 z uvtu.
Fgntr 5: whfg pbhag uvtu cyngrf (gung fubhyq or rnfl).
Svany: pbeare