Trg bana Jelačića is the unmistakable heart of Zagreb — a wide pedestrian square at the boundary between the medieval Upper Town and the 19th-century Lower Town, ringed by Habsburg-era buildings and dominated by an equestrian statue of Ban Josip Jelačić, the 19th-century Croatian governor. The statue has had an eventful life: erected in 1866, removed by the Yugoslav authorities in 1947 because Jelačić had fought against the Hungarian revolutionaries, and triumphantly returned in 1990 as Croatia moved toward independence.
The square is where everyone meets — "vidimo se kod sata" (we'll see you at the clock, meaning the Manduševac fountain or the trams underneath the clock tower) is the standard Zagreb arrangement. The trams converge here from every direction. The flagship trams in the city, the blue ones, are practically the city's mascot.