Presidential Palace, Zagreb
| Presidential Palace | |
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| Predsjednički dvori | |
President Stjepan Mesić and Serbian president Boris Tadić saluting an honor guard in front of the palace.
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| Former names | Vila Zagorje |
| Alternative names | Pantovčak |
| General information | |
| Address | Pantovčak 241 |
| Town or city | Zagreb |
| Country | Croatia |
| Coordinates | 45°50′16″N 15°57′30″E / 45.83778°N 15.95833°E |
| Current tenants | President of Croatia |
| Construction started | 1963 |
| Completed | 1964 |
| Cost | 54 million HRK (c. € 7.3 million) |
| Owner | Republic of Croatia |
| Technical details | |
| Floor area | 3,700 m2 (40,000 sq ft) |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Vjenceslav Richter Kazimir Ostrogović |
The Presidential Palace (Croatian: Predsjednički dvori, also referred to by the metonym Pantovčak) in Zagreb is the official workplace of the President of Croatia. The president does not reside in the building, however, and it is used to house the Office of the President, while the president continues to reside in his or her private residence during the duration of their term of office.
The structure covers 3,700 square metres (40,000 square feet) and in the 2009 government budget, it was allocated 54 million kuna (c. 7.3 million euro). As of May 2008, the office employed 170 staff with the maximum staffing level set at 191 by the Regulation on Internal Organisation of the Office of the President of Croatia.
The building, formerly known as Villa Zagorje or Tito's Villa, was designed by architects Vjenceslav Richter and Kazimir Ostrogović and completed in 1964 for the former Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito. It has been used as an official workplace (and formerly an official residence) since President Franjo Tuđman moved there following the October 1991 bombing of Banski dvori, the official presidential residence up to that point. In addition to the original building, there is also a 3,500 square metres (38,000 square feet) annex built in 1993, an ancillary structure housing office security services and bomb shelter predating the 1990s.
The then-Vila Zagorje was featured in the 1991 British comedy film The Pope Must Die, as the residence of fictional mafia boss Vittorio Corelli.
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