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Heading westward from Zrinjevac along either Teslina or Hebrangova, it's a five-minute walk to Trg maršala Tita (Marshal Tito Square), a grandiose open space dominated by the solid, peach-coloured pile of the Croatian National Theatre.

East of Zrinjevac and Strossmayerov trg, all roads seem ultimately to lead to Trg Žrtava fagizma (Victims of Fascism Square), a large traffic roundabout which was renamed Trg hrvatskih velikana (Square of Great Croatians) in 1990

Back on the horseshoe just south of Zrinjevac lies Strossmayerov trg, the Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences, founded as the Yugoslav Acad of Arts and Sciences by Bishop Juraj Strossmayer in 1866. Based in cathedral town of Dakovo in eastern Slavonia,

South of Trg bana Jelačića, the first section of Lenuci's Horseshoe, Zrinjevac, is a typical late nineteenth-century city park, featuring shady walks, a bandstand, and a fountain designed by the ubiquitous Herman Bolle,