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Šalata () is a residential neighborhood in Zagreb, Croatia. It is administratively part of the Gornji Grad - Medveščak city district in the northern part of Zagreb and it has a population of 1,929.

Šalata houses the Šalata Sport and Recreation Center (ŠRC Šalata) and the University Hospital Centre Zagreb (KBC Zagreb). The neighborhood is located east of Medveščak Road, the main thoroughfare of its parent city district, on the gentle slopes of the Medvednica. Due to its hilly nature, Šalata is approximately 40 to above downtown Zagreb.{{cite web | url = https://e-uprava.apis-it.hr/gup/Download.aspx | title = Download karata GUP-a | accessdate = 20 August 2008 | publisher = City of Zagreb | language = Croatian

The residents of Šalata are close to almost all major events outside the neighborhoods due to their proximity to both the old city cores of Gornji Grad and Kaptol, and the current center, Donji Grad. Šalata is praised for great views of the city because of its higher altitude in relation to the rest of the city and its position on some of the southernmost hills of Medvednica. Due to these factors, real estate in Šalata is relatively expensive compared with other districts, which made it become home to many influential people from the political, musical and sports scene in Croatia.

Geography

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Šalata was quickly urbanized in the early and mid-20th century following a rapid expansion of Zagreb. The urbanization can be explained by its prime location on the slopes of the Medvednica Mountain and its proximity to the Ban Jelačić Square. Nonetheless, the neighborhood retains an environmentally friendly image, housing the botanical garden "Fran Kušan" in Zagreb, owned by the faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry of the University of Zagreb. The garden is located at the end of the quiet Schrottova Street. Although only 24000 m2 in area, the garden contains over 2,000 plant species.{{cite web | url = http://fb.pharma.hr/botvrt.htm | title = Botanički vrt ljekovitog bilja "Fran Kušan" | date = 7 October 2005 | last = Hazler Pilepić | first = Kroata | accessdate = 12 August 2008 | publisher = Zavod za farmaceutsku botaniku | language = Croatian

Šalata's mass transit consists of four bus lines: numbers 106, 201, 226 and 238.{{cite web | url = http://www.zet.hr/autobus/dnevni.aspx | title = Vozni redovi dnevnih autobusnih linija | accessdate = 12 August 2008 | publisher = ZET | language = Croatian | url = http://www.zet.hr/autobus/autobusna-mreza.aspx | title = Mreža autobusnih linija | accessdate = 12 August 2008 | publisher = ZET | language = Croatian |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080418032654/http://www.zet.hr/autobus/autobusna-mreza.aspx |archivedate = 18 April 2008}} The southeastern part remains away from bus routes, so the City of Zagreb administration deems Šalata badly connected to the rest of the city, and plans to add more bus lines.{{cite web | url = http://www.zagreb.hr/default.aspx?id=1891 | title = Glavni problemi u 2005. godini | accessdate = 14 August 2008 | publisher = City of Zagreb | language = Croatian | url = http://www.zet.hr/media/49322/kvaternikov%20trg.pdf | title = Autobusne linije terminala Kvaternikov trg | date = 30 July 2009 | accessdate = 28 December 2010 | publisher = ZET | language = Croatian

Babonićeva Street, connected to the rest of Šalata only by staircases, has recently experienced a rise in construction of luxury apartment buildings three or four stories high, and is the first in Croatia to feature digital homes. The new development has been criticized, though, because the houses are located in a canyon, which allows their roofs to be seen from nearby streets.{{cite web | url = http://www.vecernji.hr/newsroom/regions/zagreb/2943823/index.do | title = Beverly Hills: Novo naselje za elitu u Babonićevoj ulici | date = 29 October 2007 | last = Baković | first = Sanja | accessdate = 4 August 2008 | work = Večernji list | language = Croatian |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080629235742/http://www.vecernji.hr/newsroom/regions/zagreb/2943823/index.do |archivedate = 29 June 2008}} Babonićeva Street used to be a cul-de-sac, but was enlarged upon the construction of apartment buildings at the expense of some orchards owned by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Zagreb, which had a church nearby.{{cite web | url = http://www.bono.hr/vijest.asp?id=370 | title = Zagrebački Beverly Hills za sportsku i menadžersku elitu | date = 9 August 2007 | accessdate = 28 October 2008 | work = Bono.hr | language = Croatian | url = http://webarh.arhitekt.hr/_af/_hr/informacije/dok/bio/bio_15704.html | title = Biografija: Branko Kincl | accessdate = 24 December 2008 | publisher = Faculty of Architecture, University of Zagreb | language = Croatian

History

Šalata was built along several arterial roads: Bijenička Road, Voćarska Road and Grškovićeva Street. The first development occurred around Šalata Street, near today's School of Medicine in the southwest part of the neighborhood. As the city grew, the neighborhood expanded northward. This created garbled street patterns in the south, but led to straight north-south streets and random east-west connectors north of Grškovićeva Street. East of Voćarska and Bijenička Street the neighborhood is located on steep slopes and canyons, generating long, steep north-south streets connected by staircases. The most expensive houses are primarily located along the major thoroughfares, which tend not to exhibit much traffic due to the Šalata's proximity of Medveščak Road, the main route to the northernmost parts of Zagreb. In the southern part of the neighborhood is the Voćarsko naselje, a small, but densely built neighborhood that has become a sort of a microdistrict on its own. It is not as expensive due to little road access and parking problems. It was built in 1962 and the residents moved in during 1964. It also contains a kindergarten.

Šalata used to be a village where farmers used to hold cattle and produce dairy products for the farmers' market in the city. At the beginning of the 20th century, the city spread north and the area was rapidly urbanized and became known as Šalata around the 1920s. Between 1945 and 1952, Šalata was a part of the 2nd raion. After 1945 the 2nd raion became the Medveščak municipality and Šalata formally became a neighborhood. Up until 1990 the definition of a neighborhood was coded by city ordinances, at which point Croatia separated from the rest of the then existing Yugoslavia and neighborhood definitions were scrapped. Šalata again became an informal division of the Gornji Grad – Medveščak city district.{{cite web | url = http://www.zagreb.hr/default.aspx?id=194 | title = Gornji Grad – Medveščak: Općenito o gradskoj četvrti | accessdate = 12 August 2008 | publisher = City of Zagreb | language = Croatian | url = http://www.jutarnji.hr/clanak/art-2007,6,23,zagreb_elita,79551.jl | title = Strane škole i poslovni tornjevi preselili elitu na istok grada | date = 23 June 2007 | last = Stipić | first = Branka | accessdate = 14 August 2008 | work = Jutarnji list | language = Croatian | url = http://www.jutarnji.hr/clanak/art-2006,2,4,zone_buducnosti,9807.jl | title = Zone budućnosti Središće, Vrbani III i Trokut | date = 4 February 2006 | last = Sutlić | first = Korana | accessdate = 14 August 2008 | work = Jutarnji list | language = Croatian

Education and research

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Most of Šalata and the surrounding neighborhoods are zoned to the Ivan Goran Kovačić elementary school, located near the center of the neighborhood in Mesićeva Street. While there is no high school zoning in Zagreb, the 18th Gymnasium, known for its bilingual classes, shares the building with the elementary school.{{cite web | url = http://www.gimnazija-osamnaesta-zg.skole.hr/skola | title = XVIII. gimnazija Zagreb – O školi | accessdate = 11 August 2008 | publisher = 18th Gymnasium | language = Croatian | url = http://www.nkg-zagreb.hr//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9&Itemid=22 | title = NKG – Gdje smo? | accessdate = 11 August 2008 | publisher = Archdiocesan Classical Gymnasium | language = Croatian

The Ruđer Bošković Institute is located on Bijenička Street in the far north of the neighborhood.{{cite web | url = http://www.irb.hr/en/geninfo/ | title = About RBI | accessdate = 12 October 2008 | publisher = Ruđer Bošković Institute

Culture

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The neighborhood is a cultural center of the Gornji Grad – Medveščak city district. It houses two privately owned theaters: Mala scena at the intersection of Grškovićeva Street and Medveščak Road, and Žar ptica on the far northern part of Bijenička Road. In addition to this, Šalata is renowned for being the home of many influential Croatian artists, such as sculptor Vanja Radauš,{{cite journal | url = http://www.matica.hr/Vijenac/vijenac317.nsf/AllWebDocs/Likov1 | title = Put u Panopticum | date = 27 April 2006 | last = Maroević | first = Tonko |author2=Čorak, Željka | accessdate = 24 December 2008 | issue = 317 | journal = Vijenac | language = Croatian | url = http://www.vasilijejordan.com/Album11.htm | title = Otuđene slike | accessdate = 28 January 2009 | publisher = Vasilije Jordan | language = Croatian

Šalata is widely known throughout Zagreb for its festivals, including Šalata Open Air Festival, INmusic festival, concerts on the ŠRC Šalata football stadium, and others. These concerts often host world-famous bands and singers, such as Morrissey, Korn, Franz Ferdinand or Faithless.{{cite web | url = http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2006/07/morrissey.html | title = Šalata Open Air Festival, Zagreb, Croatia | date = 7 June 2006 | last = Weeks | first = Timothy A. | accessdate = 12 August 2008 | work = Paste magazine | url = http://www.zbrdazdola.com/rec_kon/korn_salata_2007.htm | title = KORN | date = 3 July 2007 | last = Sušnik | first = Miroslav | accessdate = 30 August 2008 | work = Zbrda Zdola | language = Croatian | url = http://www.zbrdazdola.com/rec_kon/inmusic2006_franzferdinand.htm | title = INmusic festival 2006. | date = 4 July 2006 | last = Ciglenečki | first = Darko | accessdate = 30 August 2008 | work = Zbrda Zdola | language = Croatian | url = http://www.euphoria.hr | title = Euphoria Šalata | accessdate = 12 August 2008 | publisher = Euphoria Šalata | language = Croatian

The biggest cemetery in Zagreb, Mirogoj, is located directly north of Šalata, reachable by Bijenička Road and Bollé Street. It is also a heavily visited tourist destination. Mirogoj was built in 1879, shutting down eight other older city cemeteries. It is a major work of its architect, Hermann Bollé. Bollé is responsible for designing the magnificent arcades, which serve the role of Mirogoj western wall, while at the same time being used as graves for honored citizens of Zagreb.{{cite web | url = http://www.gradskagroblja.hr/Default.aspx?art=296&sec=126 | title = History of Mirogoj | accessdate = 12 August 2008 | work = Gradska groblja | url = http://www.gradskagroblja.hr/Default.aspx?art=410 | title = Znameniti ljudi pokopani na Mirogoju: B | accessdate = 14 August 2008 | publisher = Gradska groblja | language = Croatian | url = http://www.gradskagroblja.hr/Default.aspx?art=120&sec=29 | title = Krematorij: O nama | accessdate = 14 August 2008 | publisher = Gradska groblja | language = Croatian

Sports

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Šalata is known for ŠRC Šalata, the Sports and Recreational Center Šalata. ŠRC Šalata was built in the 1930s instead of expanding the existing Šalata hospital (KBC Šalata).{{cite web | url = http://www.jutarnji.hr/clanak/art-2007,7,17,arhitektura_zagreb,82569.jl | title = U Zagrebu umjesto Markove crkve – tržnica; u Preradovićevoj javno plivalište | date = 17 July 2007 | last = Blašković | first = Boba | accessdate = 14 August 2008 | work = Jutarnji list | language = Croatian | url = http://www.tk-medvescak.hr | title = Teniski klub "Medveščak" | accessdate = 14 August 2008 | publisher = TK Medveščak | language = Croatian | url = http://www.salata.hr/clanak.php?id=15 | title = Športsko društvo Medveščak | accessdate = 14 August 2008 | publisher = ŠRC Šalata | language = Croatian |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080222160322/http://www.salata.hr/clanak.php?id=15 |archivedate = 22 February 2008}} Aside from the pools and courts, the center is equipped with a gym and a fitness club.

Notable inhabitants

Many influential and famous people live or have lived in Šalata. The older part of Šalata, near its center and on Grškovićeva Road, is the wealthier part, consisting of single-family houses. Notable people who live there are Hamed Bangoura, former TV personality and the director of Midikenn fashion model recruitment agency, Savka Dabčević-Kučar, the first woman to be a Prime Minister of Croatia during Josip Broz Tito's reign,{{cite web | url = http://www.hsp1861.hr/vijesti1/011229sjp.htm | title = Sporna uloga dr. Savke Dabčević-Kučar | date = 29 December 2001 | last = Paraga | first = Dobroslav | authorlink = Dobroslav Paraga | accessdate = 12 August 2008 | publisher = HSP 1861 | language = Croatian |url = http://www.h-alter.org/tekst/kbc-salata-sustavno-truje-zagrepcane/5388 |title = KBC Šalata sustavno truje Zagrepčane |date = 14 May 2007 |last = Iličković |first = Mladen |accessdate = 7 August 2008 |work = H-Alter |language = Croatian |url-status = dead |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20120722184950/http://www.h-alter.org/vijesti/ekologija/kbc-salata-sustavno-truje-zagrepcane |archivedate = 22 July 2012 | url = http://www.slobodnadalmacija.hr/Hrvatska/tabid/66/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/93494/Default.aspx | title = Jandroković zbog krize morao spustiti cijenu kuće za 45 tisuća eura | date = 28 February 2010 | work = Slobodna Dalmacija | language = Croatian | accessdate = 28 December 2010 | url = http://www.24sata.hr/news/jandrokovic-gradi-kucu-s-kumom-tomom-butinom-109542 | title = Jandroković gradi kuću s kumom Tomom Butinom | date = 29 March 2009 | work = 24sata | language = Croatian | accessdate = 29 December 2010 | url = http://www.vjesnik.hr/html/2009/07/11/Clanak.asp?r=zag&c=3 | title =Zlatko Vitez: Bez Zagorke nema ni Zagreba | date = 11 July 2009 | last = Rajačić | first = Snježana | work = Vjesnik | language = Croatian | accessdate = 28 December 2010 | url = http://www.index.hr/sport/clanak/redir/396901.aspx | title = Karlović detronizirao kralja: Div sa Šalate pobijedio Rogera Federera | date = 31 July 2008 | accessdate = 12 August 2008 | work = Index.hr | language = Croatian | url = http://www.jutarnji.hr/clanak/art-2008,7,31,,128536.jl | title = 'Div sa Šalate' pobijedio Federera | date = 31 July 2008 | last = Poljak | first = Tomislav | accessdate = 12 August 2008 | work = Jutarnji list | language = Croatian | url = http://www.vjesnik.com/html/2001/05/03/Clanak.asp?r=zag&c=3 | title = Vesna Pusić obnavlja igralište škole koju je nekad pohađala | date = 3 May 2001 | last = Jagačić | first = Boris | accessdate = 27 December 2008 | work = Vjesnik | language = Croatian |url = http://www.t-mobile.hr/pdf/puls/Puls-07-2005.pdf |title = Šetnja životinjskim svijetom prije velikih koncerata |date = June 2005 |journal = Puls |issue = 7 |publisher = T-Mobile |language = Croatian |accessdate = 1 January 2011 |url-status = dead |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070810042731/http://www.t-mobile.hr/pdf/puls/Puls-07-2005.pdf |archivedate = 10 August 2007 | url = http://www.hsp1861.hr/vijesti2/020107bb.htm | title = Rezidencijalne vile sablasno prazne | date = 7 January 2002 | accessdate = 12 August 2008 | work = Slobodna Dalmacija | publisher = HSP 1861 | language = Croatian

Embassies

Due to its reputation as an upper-class neighborhood,{{cite journal | url = http://www.globus.com.hr/Clanak.aspx?BrojID=134&ClanakID=3296 | title = Financijski slom Đurđe Šušak | date = 16 November 2005 | last = Orešić | first = Boris | accessdate = 18 September 2008 | issue = 780 | journal = Globus | language = Croatian | url = http://www.vjesnik.com/Html/1998/12/13/Sport.htm | title = Canjuga: Dosta nam je Marića | date = 13 December 1998 | last = Jurišić | first = Predrag | accessdate = 18 September 2008 | work = Vjesnik | language = Croatian | quote = u elitnom zagrebačkom kvartu (Tuškanac, Šalata...) | url = http://www.nin.co.rs/2001-09/13/19719.html | title = Pranje rukavica | date = 13 September 2001 | last = Stanivuković | first = Zoran | accessdate = 13 August 2008 | work = NIN | language = Serbian | url = http://zagreb.embassy.si/en | title = Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Zagreb | accessdate = 28 August 2008

Neighboring communities

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