Ban Josip Jelacic Square Zagreb
by Jasna Dragun
Title
Ban Josip Jelacic Square Zagreb
Artist
Jasna Dragun
Medium
Photograph - Photography
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Ban Josip Jelacic Square is the main square in Zagreb.
It is dominated by a statue of Ban Josip Jelacic, sculptor Dominic Fernkorn, now facing south. When the statue in 1866 for the first time placed on the square, he looked to the north, towards Hungary. 1947 communist regime statue was removed, and in 1990 the statue was ceremonially returned to the square. Square was named Republic Square.
On the east side of the square is a fountain which is a contemporary version Mandusevac Fountain, aka Mandusa's well. According to legend, Zagreb is named after the beautiful Mandusa which is taking water out of the well, watered army is passing by.
The Square is not always located within the city, it was empty meadow below the walls of Gradec and the Capitol, where they lived for the strangers who approach the town was prohibited. The expansion of the city to Ilica and Stara Vlaska and Ban Jelacic Square has become the narrowest part of the city.
My original photo, caught in Zagreb, Croatia, December 2016 .
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December 28th, 2016
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