While long lines of visitors form at the entrances to the concert venue, part of the crowd is still lingering at Bundek, a large park area a little further from the hippodrome, where visitors are expected to gather in advance.

The evening before the concert, other locations were more visited than Bundek, including the city center, and the organizers plan to take a significant part of the audience there for an after-concert party.

Hundreds of thousands of visitors are arriving at the venue via the Freedom Bridge as the central access line. They sing loudly as they walk, but otherwise there are no extraordinary security incidents so far.

Torches lit

Concertgoers lit torches in the streets in the middle of the afternoon. The Kajzerica is burning, but there is still a long way to go until 9:00 PM, when the concert will start. The start time has been moved to a time when it is getting dark so that the visuals can achieve maximum effect.

Among the half a million visitors, there are also many foreigners. Many of them know Thompson, and our interviewee, who has been living in Zagreb for a few months but comes from Sweden, says she is curious about the concert that attracted so many people.

The event is also huge in terms of merchandise. There are practically no visitors who are not wearing one of the many typical T-shirts. Among them, those with the inscription"If you don't know what it was, ask the heroes" dominate. A young man from Đakovo bought his six months ago for 15 euros. According to a quick calculation, the value of the T-shirts sold alone could reach around 7.5 million euros.

A short coffee in the city center costs four euros. Otherwise, it's three, the restaurateurs said. Incredible scenes await us in the city quarter of Kajzerica. The drink is free or on a voluntary basis. Who is honoring, we ask? The Almighty, the competent answers.

The biggest benefit right now is shade, and a nearby university has offered it to many.

The atmosphere among the visitors to Thompson's concert in Zagreb is overwhelming.

A large number of them arrived in the Croatian capital by train and bus. At the main train station, his music can be heard everywhere, either from loudspeakers or sung by people who will attend the concert. In these places, the event is complemented by shouts of"Za dom spremni" (Ready for home), or"Eva zore evo dana" (Here is the dawn, here is the day).