Banski Dvori (pronounced [bâːnskiː dvɔ̌ːri]; "Ban's Court") is a historical building on the west side of St. Mark's Square in Zagreb, Croatia.
Between 1945 and 1991, the period of the SFR Yugoslavia, the Banski Dvori was the official residence of the Presidency of the Socialist Republic of Croatia.
Banski Dvori was built in the baroque classicism style at the end of the 18th century on the site of the Petar Zrinski's house.
[2] When the old Zrinski house (at the time already known as the Sermage-Kulmer palace) was damaged by fire, Ivan Kulmer renovated it and expanded it to the neighboring buildings.
In 1801, he began building a representative palace but ended up selling unfinished project to the Government of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia in 1808 for 75,000 forints.
Consequently, a year later, Ban Ignác Gyulay sold an old parliamentary palace to the Zagreb County which started using it as a town hall, and bought Baron Ferdinand Kulmer's house on the west side of St. Mark's Square.
[3] By the beginning of 1809, the palace was renovated and upgraded so Ban, Royal State Archives, highest courts, and the Croatian Parliament moved in.
[4] The last major upgrading and expansion of the northwest part of the complex was carried out in 1882, at the end of Ban Ivan Mažuranić's reign.
The whole facade was restored, dormant carpentry replaced, two meeting rooms and the so-called Blue salon renovated, and lobby and sanitary node redecorated.
Various carpentry, locksmith and electrical engineering (lighting, information systems, TV installations and recording, sound and simultaneous translation, etc.)