Galenika ( sr-cyr, Галеника) or Nova Galenika ( sr-cyr, Нова Галеника) is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of

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. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of

Zemun Zemun ( sr-cyrl, Земун, ; hu, Zimony) is a municipality in the city of Belgrade. Zemun was a separate town that was absorbed into Belgrade in 1934. It lies on the right bank of the Danube river, upstream from downtown Belgrade. The developme ...

Location

Nova Galenika is located on the north-western outskirts of Zemun. Elongated mixed residential-commercial-industrial neighborhood, mostly bounded by the roads of ''Batajnički drum'' (Батајнички друм) and ''Novosadski put'' (Новосадски пут), borders the neighborhoods of

Goveđi Brod Goveđi Brod (Serbian Cyrillic: Говеђи брод) is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Zemun. Location Goveđi Brod is the northwestern extension of urban Zemun proper, l ...

on the north, Gornji Grad on the east, Zemun Bačka on the south-east, Altina on the south, while in the west, the industrial zone extends into the directions of

Zemun Polje Zemun Polje ( sr, Земун поље) is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in the municipality of Zemun. Location Zemun Polje is located on both railway and highway Belgrade-Novi Sad, halfway between the ...

, Kamendin and

Batajnica Batajnica ( sr-Cyrl, Батајница, ) is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital city of Serbia. It is located in the Belgrade municipality of Zemun. Location and geography Batajnica is located in the Syrmia region, in the northern ...

Characteristics

The neighborhood consists of several parts, including old Galenika section. The ''Nova'' (New) Galenika section and the surrounding industrial and commercial areas. The neighborhood of Galenika originated from the 1960s as a separate neighborhood, outside of Zemun's urban center, as a settlement for the workers of the neighboring pharmaceutical factory Galenika A.B. Due to urban expansion, the neighborhood became an integral part of city during the 1980s. Nova Galenika was designed by architects Ljiljana and Dragoljub Bakić. Galenika residential sections have several parks with playgrounds, and numerous recreational sports terrains for basketball, football and volleyball. There is also walking path stretching around the neighborhood. Major retail chains have its supermarkets (''Rodić'', ''Maxi'', ''ZIG'', etc.) here. Galenika is very well connected with the rest of Zemun and Belgrade with public bus transportation lines: 84, 707, 17, 704, 706, 73. Population of the local community of Nova Galenika was 12,533 according to the 2002 census. Galenika oversaw a recent rise in property prices and projected future growth. This is a result of the construction of the new bridge across the

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( Zemun-Borča Bridge), as the river is less than 250 meters away from the neighborhood, separated from it by the neighborhood of Goveđi Brod. Last boom in property prices is fueled by construction of the first primary school in the neighborhood, which was finished in 2009.

References

Neighborhoods of Belgrade {{BelgradeRS-geo-stub