Kneza Mihailova, always bustling with walkers, is one of the oldest.
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Avenue pedestrian Kneza Mihaila (also written as Knez Mihailova), always lively with pedestrians, is one of the oldest, with bourgeois mansions 1880. It was the center of the city in Roman times, and during the Ottoman Empire wore a myriad of gardens, fountains and mosques. Today it is the main commercial city. In sections 6 and 42 you will find crafts and souvenirs.Near the source of the Soldiers in the street Last Jaksic, rested a source who was part of a Turkish monument pulled by the Serbs after their release.
The street leads to the Place de la Republique, the social center of Belgrade, surrounded by cafes and festive atmosphere at night, when there are usually performances. Here is the National Theater and National Museum (0.56 e), with a good collection of European art.
If you love literature visit the house of Ivo Andric Nobel Serbian in the street that bears his name. At the end of the road a monument recalls the great writer.
It 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 nineteenth 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 Emilija 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.
THE “SRPSKA Kruna” HOTEL, Knez Mihailova 56, was built in 1869 in the style of Romantisme, as a most modern hotel of Belgrade. Between 1945 and 1970 the National Library of Serbia was located in this building, and now there is the Library of the City of Belgrade.
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