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Knez Mihailova Street (Serbian: Кнез Михаилова улица, romanized: Knez Mihailova ulica, officially: Улица кнеза Михаила, Ulica kneza Mihaila) is the main pedestrian and shopping zone in Belgrade, and is protected by law as one of the oldest and most valuable landmarks of the city.
Obilićev Venac (Serbian Cyrillic: Обилићев венац), a pedestrian and shopping zone, is located in the city center of Belgrade, Serbia, within the Knez Mihailova Street spatial unit protected by law, and contains a number of residential and office buildings dating from 1900 to 2000.
Also colloquially styled the Korzo of Queen Natalija, the street lots this function completely by 1910 when the central Knez Mihailova Street became the main Belgrade promenade. [1] [6] Up to the 1890s, most of the street was populated with small, crumbly houses with orchards, fields and wooden fences.
Kolarčeva, Knez Mihailova, Prizrenska, Nušićeva, Dragoslav Jovanovića, Kralja Milana, Nikola Pašić Square: Central city square, designated center of the city. With numerous architectural changes, it lost the square function and was elongated into the street.
Stairs are covered with natural stone, with cast iron railings. The entrance from Knez Mihailova Street was especially decoratively treated with a central corridor which is articulated with shallow pilasters, flowery capitals between which are painted landscapes and medallions with female busts.
That same year, the city's first proper greenmarket became operational. Originally, it opened in 1824 right across the Belgrade Fortress, in the modern Pariska street, stretching between the Uzun Mirkova and Knez Mihailova streets, where the City Library is today. Only 4 days later, it was moved to the location above the old, defunct Turkish ...
At the end of 1981, "Akademija" club, one of the most famous and influential in Belgrade, was opened at 53 Knez Mihailova Street, in the dark basement of the Gallery of the Painting Academy, hence the name. It was a rock and roll venue, a meeting place of the rockers, artists, politicians' children, young and avant-garde rebels, etc.
Prior to that, only a short part of what is today Knez Mihailova, called "Delijska street", actually existed as a street. [5] Josimović successfully transformed the existing incomplete trail into the proper street which directly connected downtown Belgrade with the fortress, [ 6 ] thus establishing a direct communication between the inner and ...