Republic Square already had a clock, and now it is getting a new one - but pedestrians will not gather around it, but cars will circulate. Mayor Aleksandar Šapić announces it as a new symbol of Belgrade, which, I guess, should be the aquarium at Usce.
Na Republic Square u Belgrade a large clock will soon be installed, but unlike its predecessor, it will not serve as a meeting place. The new clock will be located in the middle of the roundabout, physically inaccessible to pedestrians.
Mayor of Belgrade Aleksandar Šapić announced that the watch should be set on the night between February 21 and 22. It is, as he said, a handwork made in Serbia, weighing seven and a half tons and nine meters high without a stand, with a guarantee of one century.
"I believe that it will become a new symbol of this part of the city and that we will all be able to be proud of it," said Šapić.
Multi-million instead of the Millennium Clock
The city allocated 12 million dinars including VAT for its construction and installation, the media reported earlier.
Republic Square already had a similar symbol. The Millennium Clock stood in the pedestrian zone from 2000 to 2019. It was removed during the reconstruction of the Square.
Photo: BeoinfoThe clock will be in the middle of the roundabout
In the last few years, the center has almost completely changed its appearance, and all that remains of the old Square is the National Museum and the monument to Prince Mihail, who - just as the professor explains to high school students in "Barking at the Stars" - rides in the same place and in the same direction.
The flowers and greenery have disappeared from the square, concrete benches have been installed, and it is also known for the famous cubes that have been turned over several times on the road, which in the meantime have been partly re-asphalted.
New and old symbols of the city
The changes in the Square are part of a wider pattern of reshaping city symbols in contemporary Belgrade.
A monumental monument to Stefan Nemanja was erected on Sava Square, while the panorama of the city was defined by the Belgrade Tower as the central point of the Belgrade on the Water project. The tower was recently presented by Informer as the largest billboard in the Balkans.
Nikola Pašić Square also got a new look. The central streets got new roundabouts, which complicate driving for many drivers, and bollards and chains were installed along the streets and pedestrian zones, which make it difficult for pedestrians to move.
At the same time, certain long-standing symbols are disappearing: it has been removed Old Sava bridge, and in its place the New Serbian Bridge should spring up, in the new part of the city, the Jugoslavia Hotel was demolished, on the site of which a new complex is being built, while the citizens have been protesting for the last few days about the construction plans aquarium in Ušće park.
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