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Pionirski grad: Pionirski grad
diocletianvs Says: Today Grad Mladih (Town of Youths) is operated as a hostel-like accommodation by Vladimir Nazor company. I doubt you can stay here individually, but if it is about school children or larger group of participants of some meeting or seminar in Zagreb it is possible to arrange...
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The only building that was open during my recent walk to Pionirski grad was the Restaurant building, although they weren't serving any food (or at least noone was eating anything).
Still, many people enjoyed having beer or coffee in fresh air, sitting on wooden benches and enjoying the first sun of the spring.
Favorite Dish: I guess if you are a group of students that finds accomodation here then arranging meals to be served in a restaurant is not a big problem. Don't expect a special menu - like in all big school restaurant efficiency and speed are the most important things.
Updated Mar 29, 2005
Address: Pionirski grad
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Take any tram going to tram terminal in Dubrava (7, 12) and then catch the bus number 208 (direction Vidovec). Alternatively, take trams 4 or 11 to Dankovecka street and wait for bus 208 there. The usual ticket for 1st zone of Zagreb tram/bus network is valid.
Pionirski grad (Grad mladih) is second stop after you see the yellow / orange church in Granesina.
Buses go every 20-30 minutes. You can also take bus #209 (direction Cucerje) to church in Granesina - then it's less than 10 minutes walk.
Updated Apr 4, 2011
diocletianvs Says: Oh yes, there is even a small artificial lake on the other side of the road that is operated by a local fishing club so you can come here for fishing and some relaxing time in this green oasis. Fishing equipment, I guess.
diocletianvs Says: Fields for football, basketball, volleyball, tennis and table tennis are all within the Pionirski grad complex and are today freely used by people from the surrounding areas. There are also paths popular among the joggers, places for mini golf etc. Since all the sports...
diocletianvs Says: Probably the area will be renewed for the use of the school children, with some new clever programs of stay and education. It would be a shame that the whole complex becomes forgotten, or even worse, that it becomes an ownership of some of the new developers who would erase...
diocletianvs Says: Today school is closed, and many pavillions are not in use any more. School library is almost empty after all the books about heroic Pioneers and Socialist Youth were selected and put aside. I doubt the copy of the Bosko Buha movie is usable any more. Still, after years of...
diocletianvs Says: Pioneers weren't learning only in classrooms but whole campus was shaped like one big classroom where Schools in Nature were organized. There are paths where Pioneers could learn about different plants, about the cycle of water in nature, about creation of the clouds and...
diocletianvs Says: Pioneer Town wasn't only a dormitory, of course, since education was important and everything was important in the education of Young Tito's Pioneers. A relatively large school was built here as well, for special occasions like championships of knowledge and the like. A...
diocletianvs Says: There were even larger buildings in Pioneer Town, some of them organized like hostels with large dorms - usually used by members of Tito's Youths for their gatherings. And some buildings were like small hotels with small rooms used by teachers for their annual gatherings,...
diocletianvs Says: So, this was an introduction into the years of Tito's Pioneers that I supposed was important to write. As you can see, Tito's Pioneers were quite important organization. We even had our own town - Pioneer town in Zagreb. The area was built in late 1950s on a 50 hectares...
diocletianvs Says: Pioneers had the official greeting. In our school we were obliged to use it at the end of the each day at school. President of the Pioneer Union would step forward and say "For our Country with Tito". And they would (of course I was the president - haha) reply: "Forward"....
diocletianvs Says: The days of the Pioneer Youth could not last forever, however heroic and beautiful they were, since there were many things ahead of the Young Socialist Youths. So, in the 7th grade another Big Event was organized. It was time to say goodbye to Pioneer times, Pioneer Red...
diocletianvs Says: The membership in Tito's Pioneers for the young child meant the beginning of the participation in Self-governing Socialist life of Socialist Yugoslavia. (Geez, those things sounded like they had a meaning back there). Each class was a basic unit of Pioneer union. Once per...
diocletianvs Says: Although it does seem strange to me, there are some people who were never Pioneers. In fact, kids in today's Croatia are no longer Pioneers - and although I am aware of the dangers I'll be called nostalgic for some passed times I have a feeling they are losing a nice part of...
Pionirski grad - Town of Tito's Pioneers
Pioniri maleni, mi smo vojska prava, Svakog dana rastemo, k'o zelena trava, Smrt fasizmu, a sloboda narodu, i mene ce moja mati pionirom zvati.... This song about small Pioneers being the real...
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