Students' Square (Studentski trg)

On the site of today's Students' Square there was once a ploughed field with Turkish gravestones. In the second half of the 19th century it was dug up and levelled, and the Great Market (Velika pijaca) was opened on the site, which was overshadowed by the then-newly erected Captain Miša's Building (Kapetan Mišino zdanje), with its light coloured façade and reddish decorations and motives around the windows and doors. When Belgrade fell into Serbian hands, the site of what had once been a market was cleared and levelled to make way for a park.

Captain Miša's Building (Kapetan Mišino zdanje)
(Studentski trg 1)
This building is the endowment of Captain Miša Anastasijević, a merchant and business partner of Prince Miloš. It was designed by the architect Jan Nevola in 1863 and represents a stylistic mixture of elements of the Gothic, Romantic and Renaissance. Today it houses Belgrade University Rectorate.

The Kolarac Foundation (Kolarčeva zadužbina)
(Studentski trg 5)
The building was erected by the great Belgrade philanthropist Ilija Milosavljević Kolarac. It was built in the Academic style and designed by the architect Petar Bajalović. It boasts a large concert hall with excellent acoustics, and an art gallery.

Monument to Petar II Petrović Njegoš (Spomenik Petru II Petroviću Njegošu)
(Akademski plato)
This monument to one of our greatest thinkers and poets was erected on the square in front of the Faculty of Philosophy in 1994. It is the work of Sreten Stojanović.

Sheikh Mustapha's Mausoleum (Šeik Mustafino turbe)
(corner of Braće Jugovića and Višnjićeva)
This mausoleum is one of the few surviving Turkish buildings in Belgrade. It was erected in 1784 over the tomb of this religious figure, in the courtyard of what was once a Dervish House ('tekija').

The University Park
During Turkish rule the Turks had a cemetery on this spot, but it was removed in the mid-19th century. Later on, the largest and most well-known market place was created on part of what is now a park. Emilijan Josimović, the first Serbian town planner, felt that the site demanded something more aesthetically pleasing than just a market and so after 1869, when work on building regulations began, he reduced the size of the Great Market by a half and converted the remainder into a park. The park began to take on a formal shape at the end of the 19th century, when the monument to Josif Pančić was unveiled, and it assumed its final appearance during the 1930s when the monument to Dositej Obradović was re-sited from Kalemegdan and the present Baroque fence was erected.