Krunski Venac

Krunski Venac (Serbian Cyrillic: Крунски Венац) is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in the Belgrade's municipality of Vračar.

Krunski Venac was located along the "Krunska" street aftre which the neighborhood got its name (Serbian for "crown street"), in the northern part of Vračar. One of the best preserved sections of "Old Belgrade", Krunska street is considered one of the most distinguished areas in Belgrade, after the Civil Engineering Law from 1900 allowed only the villa-type houses to be built in the area of Krunski Venac.

The Nikola Tesla Museum is located in the neighborhood. On July 12, 2007 "Tesla's fountain" was opened on a lawn outside the Museum, marking the 115th anniversary of the "Belgrade's waterworks", city's official water company. It was made after the original project of Nikola Tesla, patented in 1913, using a pump which uses very little electricity. It took 25 years for researchers to fully understand Tesla's idea and create a fountain like this. At the time, Tesla collaborated in the design of the fountains with the famed US stained glass artist Louis Comfort Tiffany [Politika daily, July 13, 2007, page 44] .

The name of the neighborhood, just like the adjoining Grantovac, later fell into obscurity and it is not much used today. The only official usage is for one of the exchanges of Telekom Srbija.

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