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1905
Downtown Mandalay 1905
The elegant Zegyo market was built in 1903 by the Italian Count Calderari (then Municipal Engineer). It was demolished in the early 1990s. The electric tramway, also completed in 1903 and one of the first in Asia, connected passengers from the Clock Tower south to the Arakan Pagoda, west to the Irrawaddy and east to the Court House.