Location Belgrade, Serbia Status Public | Created 1931 | |
Area 26,457 square metres (2.6457 ha) | ||
Manjež Park (Serbian: Мањеж) is a public park situated in the centre of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia.
It is located in the heart of the city, in an area bounded by the Nemanjina, Resavska, King Milan and Svetozar Marković streets. It derives its name from the French word manege (riding school) from the Royal Horse Guards which was housed at the site until 1931. The current park was built in 1931-33, according to the General Ordinance Plan of 1923. The designer was Aleksandar Krstić, a pioneer of modern landscape architecture. The park is one of the few green areas within the city, built between the World wars in the classical style. With two diagonal pathways, the park also functions as a significant corridor of pedestrian traffic. The park has an area of 26,457 sq m and a total of 253 trees of varying vitality. It accommodates several important sculptures, both commemorative and decorative.
When Serbia and Poland signed the cultural cooperation between Serbian Ministry of Culture and Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage in 2010, a statue of Frédéric Chopin, the Polish-French composer and pianist, was unveiled to mark the 200th anniversary of his birth, marked across the world this year.