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Knez Mihailova street is a pedestrian zone
and shopping center - protected by law as one
of the oldest and most valuable monumental
complexes of the city, with a large number
of representative buildings and urban houses
built at the end of 1870s. It is thought that
in as early as the Roman times there was the
center of the Singidunum settlement. In this
area, at the time of Turks, there were winding
streets with gardens, drinking-fountains and
mosques. In the middle XIX century, in the
upper part of the street was the garden of
Knez Aleksandar Karađorđević.
After the making of the regulation plan of
Belgrade in 1867, by Emilijan
Josimović, the street has soon
been built and gained its physionomy and content.
The houses have been built there and the most
influential and wealthiest families of the
commercial and political society of Belgrade
have come to live there. In 1870,
the city authorities officially gave a name
to this street - Ulica Kneza Mihaila.
Republic square covers the space between
the "Gradska
Kafana" (City
Restaurant), "Jadran" cinema, National Theatre
and Army Hall of Serbia and Montenegro.
National theatre is b built in 1869 according
to the design of Aleksandar Bugarski, the most
productive architect of Belgrade in the XIX
century. The decision to construct a special
building for the theatre was made by Knez Mihailo
Obrenović.
The building was a typical theatre building
of the time and was particularly reminiscent
of La Scala, Milan, with regard to its Renaissance
conception and the decorative finish. Later
reconstructions, completely changed the original
appearance. The heavy reconstruction was made
in 1986 when the theatre regained the 1922
look and an annex was built towards Braće
Jugovića Street. Beside theatrical purposes,
the hall has been used for charity balls and
concerts during the XIX century. The Great
Constitutional Assembly adopted the famous
1888 Constitution in this building
The original corpus against the Trg republike,
was built in 1902 according to the design of
Andra Stevanović and Nikola Nestorović.
The part facing Laza Paču Street was built
in 1930, when the counter-hall (today the atrium
of the National Museum) was arranged. In World
War II the building was heavily damaged, and
after the war it was rebuilt without the dome
it has today. In the sixties, thanks to the
efforts of then the manager of the National
Museum, Dr. Lazar Trifunović, the central
dome was back in place, and the interior arranged,
so that today it fully serves its purpose.
Terazije is the most famous square
in Belgrade. It started to take shape as an
urban feature in the first half of the XIX
century. At the end of the XIX and beginning
of the XX century, Terazije was the center of
social life of Belgrade. The most important hotels,
restaurants and shops were located here. Today
on Terazije square is hotel Moskva built 1906.
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