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The Zagreb Horseshoe Park

The Horseshoe Park or Lenuci’s Horseshoe Park is the common name for a sequence of seven squares and one garden that frame the centre of Lower Town – the historic core of the Zagreb centre dating from the late 19th century. Today these are Nikola Šubić Zrinski Square - Zrinjevac Square2, Josip Juraj Strossmayer Square (previously Academy Square), 3 The King Tomislav Square (previously The King Francis Joseph I. Square)4, Ante Starčević square (previously the South Park)5, Botanical Garden, Marko Marulić Square (previously part of the West Park)6, Mažuranić Square7 (previously part of the West Park) and Marshal Tito Square – the Theatre Square (before University Square)8. The layout of the Horseshoe Park was concurrent with the building of Lower Town. Much like the Viennese Ringstrasse, the sequence of parks in the shape of a letter U or as a horseshoe is a representative part of Zagreb and greatly defines the city’s urban identity. The Horseshoe Park is a monument to urban planning, architecture and landscape architecture of late 19th and early 20th centuries. The urban definition and execution of the concept is owed primarily to the then main municipal engineer Milan Lenuci, after whom the sequence of squares was popularly named Lenuci’s Horseshoe. Public parks in Zagreb and Croatia have a long tradition. The Lenuci Horseshoe was inspired on the one hand by the layout of the Ringstrasse in Vienna, and on the other it was a continuation of an idea of public parks and promenades built in Zagreb since the late 18th century.

Zagreb ; Horseshoe Park ; Lenuci ; 19th century

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