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The Prokurative, officially known as the Trg Republike (English: Republic Square), is a Neo-Renaissance square in Split, Croatia.
Background[edit]
Following the medieval westward expansion of the city, the area of the present-day Prokurative was an open space dividing the Varoš, a suburban neighborhood inhabited by farmers and the fishermen, and the center of city. Between 1665 and 1668, a curtain wall conecting the bastions of San Antonio and Santa Marina was constructed in the area. The wall and bastions were part of a system of medieval foritications, constructed by the Venetians to defend the city from Ottoman incursions.[1][2] In the early 19th century, Split came under control of Napoleon's France.[3] By then, the danger posed by the Ottoman empire had disappeared and the fortifications lost their strategic purpose.[4][5] Fearing the fortifications might fall in the hands of British and Russian fleets in the Adriatic, and acting under the pretext of beautifying Split, the military governor of Dalmatia, Auguste de Marmont, ordered parts of them demolished.[3][6] As Marmont was he initiated several construction works in Split, with the goal of improving the quality of life in the city and making it more beautiful. In 1806, he ordererd the construction of Split's first public park in the area of the present-day Prokurative.
Construction[edit]
Footnotes[edit]
- ^ Muljačić 1989, p. 179-181.
- ^ Piplović 2012, p. 245.
- ^ a b Muljačić 1989, p. 184.
- ^ Grgić 2005, p. 81-82.
- ^ Kečkemet 2006, p. 163.
- ^ Kečkemet 2006, p. 94.
References[edit]
- Piplović, Stanko (December 2012). "Splitske Prokurative". Kulturna baština (41): 245–290. Retrieved 18 December 2017.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link) - Muljačić, Slavko (19 December 1989). "Od bastiona Bernardi do Vid Morpurgove poljane". Kulturna baština (19): 179–192. Retrieved 18 December 2017.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link) - Grgić, Ana (October 2005). "Vrtovi i perivoji Splita Nastajanje i razvoj perivojne arhitekture grada". Prostor : znanstveni časopis za arhitekturu i urbanizam. 13 (1 (29)): 79–90. Retrieved 18 December 2017.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link) - Kečkemet, Duško (2006). Maršal Marmont i Split. Split: Slobodna Dalmacija.
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