| This is the oldest green oasis and Zemun's promenade. It was made in 1880 as the Mali Park (Small Park), on the place of former "kontumac" of 1730 (a sort of customs and quarantine station). By further planting in 1886 and 1888 it became the Gradski (City) Park. The buildings built in style of that time are preserved, like the building of the former High School (finished in 1880, and extended in 1916). The oldest preserved monuments are part of the kontumac wall and two (restored) kontumac churches: the Orthodox Church of St. Gabriel the Archangel (of 1786) and Roman Catholic Church of St. Rocco (of 1836). Between those two churches is a column dedicated to A. Lamartine. It was raised by the Yugoslavia-France Society for the 100th anniversary of the time the great poet stayed in kontumac (quarantine). Two memorials remind of the more recent history, of the People's Liberation War. They have been made by the sculptors Vanja Radauš and Boris Kalina. Near the complex of the park is the Sports Center "Pinki - Zemun", built in 1974. |