I was itching for a good walk this sunny afternoon. And so I walked up the Tuškanac park, a green area that stretches northward and upward from the center of Zagreb. The gully is wooded all the way, and it is a real joy to visit on a marvelous day. One more time, I met very few people on my way. There were three or four women walking their dogs and a man pushing a limp boy of about fifteen in a bulky carriage. When I returned to the center an hour later, I could not believe my eyes: the pedestrian area was jammed with people enjoying the sunshine. The park next door was not their cup of tea, it was perfectly clear. When I returned home, I searched for Tuškanac on the World Wide Web. I could not find much of interest, but I was stunned by a Wikipedia page dedicated to this part of the Croatian capital.[1] A small neighborhood in the Upper town carries this name, as well. There are some two-thousand and a half people living there at present. Apparently, the neighborhood got its name from Tuscany on account of some Tuscan immigrants in the Fourteenth Century. According to the page, a great-grandson of Dante Alighieri, Nicoló, founded there the first pharmacy in Zagreb in 1395. The world is a tiny place, indeed. Exceedingly tiny, too.

Footnote

1. URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuškanac (accessed on February 18, 2015).