Slavija
Slavija ( Serbian - Cyrillic Славија ) is one of the great central squares of Belgrade , Serbia .
location
Slavija Square is located about 1.5 km south of the Terazije between the districts of Vračar and Savski Venac at an altitude of 117 m.
history
Until the 1880s, the area of today's Slavija was a depression on the eastern edge of the city, in which there was a lake where the inhabitants came to hunt ducks. The history of the square began with the Scottish trader and Nazarene Francis Mackenzie, who bought a large piece of land here and then put it up for sale in plots. Shortly after Mackenzie built a house here for himself, the square became the meeting place for the labor movement around 1910.
The Slavija was officially planned as the last in a series of squares from Kalemegdan; however, this urban planning idea was never fully implemented.
After the Second World War , the communists buried the bones of the leading Serbian socialist Dimitrije Tucović in the center of the square and in 1947 a bronze bust of Tucović was erected. It was also renamed Dimitrije-Tucović-Platz. The name did not catch on and was officially changed back to Slavija in early 2000 .
There are three hotels on the square, all of which are called "Slavija", as well as the oldest McDonald’s restaurant in Eastern Europe, which opened in 1988.
traffic
Slavija, designed as a roundabout, is one of the busiest intersections in Belgrade. Seven streets and all of the city's transport systems come together here: buses, trolley buses and trams. A reconstruction of the important feeder via Nemanjina ulica was completed in 2008.
architecture
The Slavija is characterized by functional architecture and is characterized more by traffic than by architectural sophistication. The square was to be redesigned and the Dimitrije Tucović monument removed, but the proposed designs were never carried out.
It is worth mentioning that one side of the square - the so-called Miticeva rupa on the northern edge - is still undeveloped after several failed attempts to erect a representative object here. A large sundial stood here for a while.
The National Bank of Serbia was built on Nemanjina Ulica in the early 1990s.
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Single receipts
- ↑ Beograd u brojkama 2006 ( Memento from February 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 44 ° 48 ′ 9.1 ″ N , 20 ° 27 ′ 58.8 ″ E