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Parliament repairing chimneys, roof damaged in earthquake

Author: Hari Alfeo

ZAGREB, March 30 (Hina) - The Croatian parliament, whose building in Zagreb's St. Mark's Square was damaged in a recent earthquake, is repairing damaged chimneys and the roof, the Sabor said on Monday.

Since last week, for safety reasons, MPs are sitting in a former building of the INA oil company.

The Sabor said structural engineers had examined parliament's main building on the day of the magnitude 5.5 quake and that they were still consulting about details of the necessary reconstruction.

The Sabor has been sitting in Zagreb since the 13th century but until the end of the 18th century there was no building intended for sessions, which were held in houses of eminent persons, at the royal palace at Gradec or the Bishop's Palace.

In order for parliamentary sessions to be held at a permanent location, a house was bought in 1731 in St. Mark's Square, then Zagreb's main square, which was damaged in a fire that same year.

Master mason Matija Leonhart then designed the Parliament House which was the largest as well as the first Baroque residence in Zagreb's Upper Town.

The Sabor met in the new, but as yet incomplete, building for the first time on 6 May 1737.

The current Parliament House was designed by Lav Kalda and Karlo Susan, and the works were completed in 1911, when Zagreb County sold the building to the Sabor, whereby the residence was returned to the original owner who bought it in 1731.

The building combines Classicism, Renaissance Revival architecture and Art Nouveau, and therefore represents a significant cultural monument.

Part of the parliament building, including the chamber and some salons, underwent major renovations in the 1990s.

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