Novi Zagreb

Novi Zagreb (translated: New Zagreb ) is a part of the Croatian capital Zagreb. It corresponds largely to the type of a satellite town and consists of several large housing estates.

Geography and History

Novi Zagreb is located in the south of Zagreb, south of the Sava River. Thus, it is outside the historical boundaries of the city. It covers approximately 125,000 inhabitants.

Cityscape

Novi Zagreb after the Second World War and is a term coined by storey housing district with real-socialist architecture of the second half of the 20th century with blocks of flats in prefabricated construction. There are next in railway nearby and single-family settlements ( Pobrežje, Savski Gaj, Trokut ), which emerged especially after the Croatian War. Furthermore, in between there are many green areas, sports fields, service centers, as well as some larger parks such as Bundek. In the 1990s created several new office towers and the mall Avenue Mall.

Traffic

The residential areas are accessible by several highways and minor residential streets. The Avenija Dubrovnik runs as a multi-track central axis from west to east. Your western extension forms the Jadranska avenija, which opens into the highway 1 at the motorway junction Lučko. About the arc around Novi Zagreb flowing Save lead three multi-lane road bridges, in the west the most Jadranska, the park Bundek the Avenija Wećeslava Holjevca and in the east the Avenija Marina Držića. The main north-south axis and connecting to Highway 3 and the airport serves the ( Avenija ) Savezne Republike Njemačke, which is named after the Federal Republic of Germany, which recognized Croatia was the first country.

Novi Zagreb is served by several tram and bus lines of the Zagreb Transport Company Zagrebački električni tramvaj ( ZET ).

Administrative divisions

Since 1999, the district is divided into the districts of Novi Zagreb - istok ( New Zagreb East), Novi Zagreb - zapad ( New Zagreb West) and Brezovica.

Attractions

  • Exhibition Centre Zagreb ( Zagrebačka velesaj )
  • Bundek, park and lake
  • Museum of Contemporary Art ( Muzey suvremene umjetnosti ).
  • Place in the County City of Zagreb
A1 (Croatia) Zagreb Airport Brezovica (Zagreb)
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