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  1. At a glance
  2. Where it is
  3. For and against
  4. What it's like
  5. The name
  6. History
  7. What to see
  8. Did you know?
  9. Everyday life
  10. Renting
  11. Nearby
  12. Questions
  13. Sources
Cvjetno naselje from above: a grid of family houses with pitched roofs and gardens, three tall towers and the slopes of Medvednica behind.Cvjetno naselje from above: a grid of family houses with pitched roofs and gardens, three tall towers and the slopes of Medvednica behind.

Neighbourhood guide · Trnje

Cvjetno naseljeHouses for city officials from 1939, a student residence and the Sava embankment

Checked 25 October 2026 · 12 min read

The houses for city officials built here in 1939 were paid for with a city savings bank loan, and the monthly instalment was a third of a city engineer's pay, about the rent of a similar flat in the centre.6

Cvjetno naselje at a glance

  • To the main square by ZET26 min
  • To the centre as the crow flies2.4 km
  • Residents of the three committees (2021)29,30,314,510
  • Protected area12since 2004
Trams nearby

Where Cvjetno naselje is

Cvjetno naselje is in the city district of Trnje, by the Sava. Neighbourhoods have no official boundaries, so this guide describes it through three local committees (mjesni odbori): Cvjetno naselje, Savski kuti and Veslačko naselje. Together they cover roughly the area Croatian Wikipedia gives the neighbourhood, between Savska cesta, Slavonska avenija, the Sava and the HRT complex.1,28 The City's district analysis lists them among Trnje's riverside settlements, and in 2024 it proposed merging them into one committee called Cvjetno naselje. In June 2025, though, each committee constituted its own council.33,34,29,30,31

The Cvjetno naselje committee is the largest by area: it runs from Odranska and Cvjetna cesta east to Avenija Većeslava Holjevca, and from Slavonska avenija south to the Sava.28,32 Savski kuti lies between Slavonska avenija, Prisavlje, Savska cesta and Odranska, and Veslačko naselje south of Prisavlje, between Savska and Cvjetna cesta, down to the Sava and Savski most.28 The protected historic estate is smaller, bounded by Odranska, Slavonska avenija, Marohnićeva and Prisavlje.12 According to Croatian Wikipedia, the neighbours are Staro Trnje, Knežija, Vrbik and Trnje, with Kajzerica across the river.1

For and against: life in Cvjetno naselje

What's going for it

  • Trams 4, 5, 14 and 17 stop on Savska cesta at Veslačka, Prisavlje and Vjesnik; line 4 starts at Savski most.41,42,43,44
  • A primary school at Cvjetna cesta 17, a branch of the city's Vrbik nursery at Prisavlje 4 and family doctors at Odranska 10.13,49,37
  • The Sava embankment along the southern edge; a new foot and cycle path had reached the stretch by Kockica by April 2025.28,52
  • At the core are family houses with gardens on 20 × 40 m plots, protected as a heritage area since 2004.7,12
  • Rowing clubs on Veslačka ulica and a bocce hall with eight lanes on Prisavlje.40,32,23

What to expect

  • There's no library in the neighbourhood; the Zagreb City Libraries' mobile library comes every other Friday afternoon.39
  • The market in the estate's first plan was never built.11,8
  • Bus 108 doesn't run on Saturdays, Sundays or public holidays.46
  • Since 22 October 2024 Cvjetno naselje has been in parking zone III, as block 11.50
  • Demolition of the Vjesnik complex on the corner of Savska and Slavonska avenija began in April 2026. Under the ministry's June plan, the site was to be cleared by mid-July, after which the ministry intends to hold a public architectural competition.57,17

What life is like in Cvjetno naselje

A street in Cvjetno naselje with a row of pitched-roof houses behind garden fences, pavement trees and an apartment block behind.A street in Cvjetno naselje with a row of pitched-roof houses behind garden fences, pavement trees and an apartment block behind.
Houses with gardens in the estate's core, planned in 1940.

The core is a regular grid. Four streets, Cvjetno naselje I–IV, run north to south, crossed by an alley now called Aleja Vlade Antolića, which was planned as a tree-lined pedestrian street.7,9,28 The plots are 20 × 40 m, and the houses are placed so that each has a larger, sunny garden to the south.7,9 The plan set three house types with one upper floor, of 95, 110 and 140 m², and one with two upper floors, of 170 m². Different architects designed individual houses within those sizes, among them Antolić, Zvonimir Kavurić and Stjepan Planić, and Kavurić did the structural calculations for every type.6,7 The standard houses stand on columns because the nearby Sava flooded.11,7

In its analysis of the district, the City calls the 1940 Cvjetno naselje a unique example of a planned low-rise estate from between the two world wars.33 The first plan also had a school, a playground and a market. The school and playground were built, but housing went up where the sports grounds, market and public buildings were meant to be.8,11 Since 1990 many houses have been extended or had floors added; according to the Re-Imagine Europe study, Cvjetno naselje I is the only street where the original houses still stand in a row.1,10,9

Around the core the building is more mixed. According to a 2006 text by the Croatian Architects' Association, from the late 1950s the eastern part gained six Balcony and terrace (balkon, terasa)A balcony projects from the building's façade; a terrace is a level surface on or next to the building, covered or open. Both count only in part in floor-area figures.Source: Pravilnik o načinu obračuna površine i obujma u projektima zgrada (NN 90/10), čl. 4.–5., checked 19 Oct 2026More in the glossary by Stjepan Planić, two blocks by the Tučkorić office and later six prefabricated blocks.10 The three residential and office towers at Veslačka 2, 4 and 6 (1969–72) are the work of Slavko Jelinek and I. Linardić.18,27 The 2018 building at Veslačka 15–17A has 119 flats, five shops and a room for the local community, with a roof shaped as an artificial landscape.27

In a 2024 study of four Trnje neighbourhoods, Cvjetno naselje's residents mostly stressed how it looks: the greenery, the tidiness and the general appearance.61,9 In 2026 Jutarnji list quoted someone who has lived there for 59 years: "The neighbours are quiet, there's no noise and everything is close."59

Cvjetno naselje
The largest committee by area, with the historic core, the school, HRT, Kockica and the Pogon building on Trnjanska struga. It is based at Aleja Vlade Antolića 2 and had 1,625 residents at the 2021 census.28,29
Savski kuti
Lomnička, Rugvička and Stupnička streets, and Odranska with the student residence, the health station at Odranska 10 and the Vjesnik site. It is based at Lomnička 3 and had 1,795 residents in 2021.28,30
Veslačko naselje
Veslačka ulica with its towers and rowing clubs, down to the Sava and Savski most. It is based at Veslačka 17a and had 1,090 residents in 2021.28,31

Where the name Cvjetno naselje comes from

According to a volume published by the Croatian Museum Association, the name was given by the architect and planner Ivan Zemljak (1893–1963), who also named Gajnice and Medpotoki.3 According to the 2006 Croatian Architects' Association text, Antolić worked on Zagreb's regulatory plan from 1932 to 1945, later alongside Zemljak.10

Residents say the neighbourhood takes its name from the many fragrant flowers that grow there.4,9

A short history of Cvjetno naselje

Before the Second World War the wide strip along the unregulated Sava was thought unfit for housing because of constant floods; according to Croatian Wikipedia, only the army used it, as a training ground.1,6 In 1939 building began on the site of the old city nursery garden and vegetable plots, the first attempt at legal housing in Trnje.2,1 The detailed plan, with the street layout and the house type, was drawn in 1939–40 by the city engineer Vlado Antolić.5,6

The City sold the former flood land cheaply, and the building was financed by a loan from the city savings bank, Gradska štedionica, repaid over ten years.6 Forty free-standing houses for city officials went up in 1939–40.6 According to the Re-Imagine Europe study, which cites a 2009 paper by Vedran Ivanković, Antolić planned 70 houses and 51 were built before the war.9 The engineer Zvonimir Kavurić, secretary of the underground local liberation committee for Zagreb, was arrested on 2 June 1944 and hanged on 5 October 1944.6,9

Building carried on after the war. Slavko Löwy designed the student residences on Odranska in 1955, and in 1959–60 Jugomont built here with its Ju-59 prefabricated system, as it did at Nove Kruge and on Kušlanova.14,15 The primary school opened in 1962.13 According to Croatian Wikipedia, most of the estate was finished by the mid-1960s.1 In the Sava flood of October 1964 the school closed for fourteen days, many residents moved away, and Kavurić's personal archive was destroyed in his house.13,6 Across the city, according to the Zagreb City Museum, 40,000 people had to leave their homes and 17 died.62

Between 1963 and 1972 bigger buildings went up: Kockica, the Veslačka towers and the Vjesnik tower.20,18,17 The estate's protection was published in 2004.12 A fire badly damaged the Vjesnik tower on the night of 17–18 November 2025, and demolition began in April 2026.17,56,57

  1. 1939Building starts on the estate for city officials, to Vlado Antolić's plan.2,5
  2. 1939–1940Forty free-standing houses are built.6
  3. 1955Slavko Löwy designs the student residences on Odranska.14
  4. 1959–1960Jugomont builds here with its Ju-59 prefabricated system.15
  5. 1962Teaching begins at the primary school, founded on 28 September 1961.13
  6. 1964A Sava flood closes the school for fourteen days.13,62
  7. 1971The City adopts a detailed urban plan for Cvjetno naselje.16
  8. 1972The 67-metre Vjesnik tower is completed.17,9
  9. 1983HRT opens its first TV production studio at Prisavlje 3.21
  10. 1991The bocce hall opens at Prisavlje 2.23,24
  11. 2000The Močvara club moves into the former Jedinstvo factory; Gračan's "Žabinjak" frogs go up on the embankment.25,22
  12. 2004Cvjetno naselje is registered as a protected heritage area, number Z-1543.12
  13. 2025The City Assembly names Park Nives Kavurić-Kurtović; a fire badly damages the Vjesnik tower.53,17,56
  14. 2026Demolition of the Vjesnik complex begins.57,17

What to see in Cvjetno naselje

The Kockica building on Prisavlje: a tall cube of dark glass and pale stone above a low glass podium, with wide stone steps in front.The Kockica building on Prisavlje: a tall cube of dark glass and pale stone above a low glass podium, with wide stone steps in front.
Kockica, Vitić's 1960s building on Prisavlje.

  • Kavurić's house

    At II. Cvjetno naselje 26, from 1939. Unlike the standard design, which had a gently sloping roof, it has a flat roof, and the living floor stands on concrete columns that widen towards the top. Jasna Nosso added an attic floor in 2003.6,7 The painter Nives Kavurić-Kurtović, Kavurić's daughter, was born in the house and kept her studio there.55

  • Antolić's house

    Antolić lived in one of the first four houses from the start. It stands by the small green south of Cvjetno naselje I.8,10

  • Kockica

    At Prisavlje 14. Ivan Vitić's government office building, built in 1963–68, has interior art by Jagoda Bulić-Wuttke, Dušan Džamonja, Stevan Luketić, Edo Murtić and Zlatko Prica, coordinated by Raul Goldoni.19,20 It was renovated in 2020.20

  • HRT on Prisavlje

    Croatian Radiotelevision (HRT) opened its first TV production studio at Prisavlje 3 in 1983, and since 1988 all its radio and television production has been based there.21

  • Pogon Jedinstvo

    A former industrial building at Trnjanska struga 34, now home to Pogon Jedinstvo, the Močvara club and DB Indoš.26,25 According to Pogon's history of the building, the architect Božidar Kolonić adapted it in 1965–66 for the Institut za procesnu tehniku, and it later became part of the Jedinstvo factory.26

  • The sculpture alley on the Sava embankment

    On the northern part of the Sava embankment, between Most slobode and the railway bridge. The sculptor Ratko Petrić proposed it at the 1985 Zagreb Salon, and the first piece, his "Kapi" (Drops), went up in 1990.22 By 2007 there were nine works, among them Marija Ujević's "Trkač" (Runner) and Stjepan Gračan's "Žabinjak".22

  • Boćarski dom Zrinjevac

    The bocce hall at Prisavlje 2. It has eight lanes and telescopic stands for about 2,500, and also hosts concerts and fairs, among them the Floraart flower show.23,24

  • Park Nives Kavurić-Kurtović

    The City Assembly named this park north of Prisavlje after the painter on 17 October 2025.53 Readings, talks and workshops were held there for Women's Day in March 2026.54

Did you know?

  • Gračan's "Žabinjak" on the embankment was meant to have seven frogs. The plan was scaled back and only three were made.22
  • The bocce hall was built in 1991 for a world championship that the war postponed. It opened instead with a Christmas tournament that December.23,24
  • The painter Nives Kavurić-Kurtović (1938–2016), born in the house her father designed, became the first woman full member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1997.55
  • From 1967 the primary school was called OŠ Crveni oktobar (Red October); it got the name Cvjetno naselje back on 13 December 1990.13
  • In June 2026 Jutarnji list temporarily moved its Zagreb desk to Cvjetno naselje while the Vjesnik building was being taken down.58,59

Everyday life in Cvjetno naselje

Getting around

  • Trams 4, 5, 14 and 17 stop at Veslačka, Prisavlje and Vjesnik on Savska cesta. Line 4 runs from Savski most to Dubec.41,42,43,44
  • Bus 108 (Glavni kolodvor – Savski most) runs through the neighbourhood with stops at Kockica, Boćarski dom and Marohnićeva, on working days only. Bus 107 (Jankomir – Žitnjak) stops at Vjesnik and Marohnićeva.45,46,47
  • According to the magazine Matica, Zagreb's horse tram had a branch along Frankopanska and Savska cesta to Savski most from 5 September 1891.48

Schools and nurseries

  • OŠ Cvjetno naselje, Cvjetna cesta 17. The Trnje municipality founded it on 28 September 1961, and a year later it had 719 pupils in 24 classes.13
  • A branch of the city's Vrbik nursery at Prisavlje 4; according to the City's 2019 list, the private Kreativni dani nursery is at Cvjetno naselje II. 9.49,32
  • The Cvjetno naselje student residence (Odranska 8) has eight pavilions with more than 1,800 beds, a gym, classrooms, two student restaurants and a pastry shop.35 After the earthquake of 22 March 2020 it gave temporary shelter to people whose homes had become unusable.36
  • The Zagreb City Libraries' mobile library stops at Cvjetno naselje regularly; in autumn 2026, every other Friday from 14:30 to 15:30.39

Parks and sport

  • On 29 October 2024 the City began building 10 km of foot and cycle path along both banks of the Sava, from Savski most to Most mladosti; by April 2025 it had reached the stretch by Kockica and the frogs.51,52
  • Veslački klub Zagreb (Veslačka 27), a rowing club founded on 1 June 1930 as VK Uskok.40 According to the City's 2019 list, the neighbourhood also has the Mladost rowing house (Veslačka 26), the Trešnjevka rowing house (Savska 183), Kajak-kanu klub Zagreb (Savska 193) and Nogometni centar Zagreb (Veslačka 1A).32

Markets and shops

  • According to the Uredinfo office directory, the HOB business complex (City Plaza) at Slavonska avenija 6, on the corner of Marohnićeva, has shops and services on its ground floors.60

Health

  • Dom zdravlja Zagreb – Centar's health station at Odranska 10 has two family-medicine teams, two dental teams and a community nursing service, for about 6,000 patients; the building's energy renovation was finished in 2020.37 There's also a family doctor's surgery in the student residence at Odranska 8.38

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Questions about life in Cvjetno naselje

Which city district is Cvjetno naselje in?

Trnje. In the wider sense the neighbourhood is covered by three local committees: Cvjetno naselje, Savski kuti and Veslačko naselje.28,29,30,31

Which trams go to Cvjetno naselje?

Lines 4, 5, 14 and 17, which stop on Savska cesta at Veslačka, Prisavlje and Vjesnik. On working days bus 108 also runs through the neighbourhood.41,42,43,44,46

Is Cvjetno naselje protected?

Yes. The historic estate has been a protected cultural property since 2004, number Z-1543. The protected area lies between Odranska, Slavonska avenija, Marohnićeva and Prisavlje, not the whole committee area.12

Is there a school and a nursery in Cvjetno naselje?

Yes. OŠ Cvjetno naselje is at Cvjetna cesta 17, and a branch of the Vrbik nursery is at Prisavlje 4.13,49

How many people live in Cvjetno naselje?

At the 2021 census the Cvjetno naselje committee area had 1,625 residents, Savski kuti 1,795 and Veslačko naselje 1,090, so 4,510 in all.29,30,31

Where does the name Cvjetno naselje come from?

According to the Croatian Museum Association's volume, the architect Ivan Zemljak gave the name. Residents say it comes from the fragrant flowers that grow there.3,4,9

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