Zapruđe

Zapruđe is a neighbourhood in Zagreb, in Novi Zagreb - istok district just south of Sava River near the Most mladosti (Youth bridge). The Zapruđe local committee had a population of 6,184 at the 2011 census.

As of 2012, the district consists mostly of residential high-rises, but it also has several chain stores, a butcher, a post office, a bank, a school, a kindergarten, a library, a community hall, a health center, and a pharmacy.

It has its own festivals and traditions, such as the Zapruđe festival, and a soccer team, NK Zapruđe.

The neighbourhood can be accessed via the Zagreb Tramway routes 6, 7, 8 and 14, and bus routes 109, 219, 220, 222, 229 and Pleso Prijevoz airport shuttle.

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Mayor Većeslav Holjevac held office from 1952 to 1963, during which a bridge was constructed over the Sava River and the city expanded southward to New Zagreb. Following the construction of the 1960 Liberty Bridge, the district's population rapidly grew in the following couple of decades.

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