Grand hotel style and fine dining in art deco zagreb in the lower town hotel esplanade zagreb once welcomed passengers on the orient express so as you might expect it faces the train station in the lower town near several museums its a 5 minute walk to the 1890s art pavilion used for art shows and 20 minutes to mosaic tiled st marks church museum of failed romance you can walk to the main square trg bana jelaia in 12 minutes and then explore the pedestrianized medieval upper town