The Building
The Gymnasium building is located in Zemun’s Town Park (Serbian Cyrillic: Градски парк), nestled between University of Belgrade's Faculty of Agriculture building and a primary school.
The present day building was built in 1879 in renaissance style by Nikola Kolar. By 1912 the initial building proved to have inadequate space for accommodating all the students so plans were set up to expand it. Expansion was finished in 1916. The added structure was intended to be in renaissance style too, but was, instead, built in post-secessionist style. Hence, the building is actually formed by two buildings with a completely enclosed interior court.
The interior of the building has been renovated in 2009.
The building is under the State’s protection as a cultural monument.
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