On the right bank of the Danube, in southeastern part of Srem, there is Zemun Municipality, formerly a separate city, and today a romantic part of Belgrade. With its cultural and historic heritage, typical Vojvodina architecture and special charm, Zemun is the real “city within the city“. Its inhabitants carefully nurture this noble spirit. Gardoš […]
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Urban Legends of Belgrade
History has recorded legendary leaders, heroes and prophets, great poets, three uprisings, priests and educators – but it has recorded few of the insignificant, forgotten and sometimes still extant „Three legends of Belgrade“. Let us now rescue them from oblivion, perhaps even sanctify their memory. Phantom For seven days in 1979, throughout Belgrade, stories circulated […]
Continue ReadingBelgrade – Ultimate Party & Nightlife City
In Belgrade every day is treated like Friday – people think nothing of clubbing through the night and going straight into work the next morning. That may sound unimaginably hedonistic to people from a nation where almost everything shuts at 11pm, but Belgrade’s all-night bars and clubs and very cheap booze. Serbs never go out […]
Continue ReadingGarden of Good Hope – The Belgrade Zoo
Situated at the very center of the city, the Belgrade Zoo, or the Good Hope Garden, stands on one of the most attractive city locations – the Kalemegdan park. It was founded in the year 1936. It was founded by the mayor of that time, the industrialist Mr. Vlada Ilić (I). It was ceremonially opened […]
Continue Reading44th Belgrade FEST
While last year’s FEST was marked by many novelties, this year these novelties may be considered a standard of the biggest film festival in the region. This year too, the best films will be rewarded in three competition programs: the films were picked by Art Director Jugoslav Pantelic, as well as the programming director of […]
Continue ReadingBelgrade Old Town – Stari Grad
Stari grad Municipality (Belgrade Old Town) reflects the history of Belgrade more than two millenniums long. The main pedestrian zone, Knez – Mihailova Street, is protected by the state as one of the oldest and most valuable monumental units, with a series of representative buildings from the late 1870’s. The Belgrade Fortress, a unique historical […]
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European Water Polo Championships Belgrade 2016 Has Begun
Welcome to European Water Polo Championships Belgrade 2016! An extended tournament that now includes 16 men’s and 12 women’s teams. 100 games inside the nation’s main sports and event hall with 11,000 seats available. Unprecedented and a new experience to even the veteran players. The 2016 European Championships promise to be a spectacle. And behind […]
Continue ReadingKALEMEGDAN – The Symbol of Belgrade Open To Everyone
It exists for more than two thousand years. Not for one day was it abandoned. Can you imagine a structure which keeps and is the very history of one city? That’s what Belgrade fortress actually is – a keeper and a true heart of Belgrade history. It changed dozens of names – Celtic Singidun, followed […]
Continue ReadingThe most important monuments in Belgrade
In Belgrade there is over 300 monuments, and 57 of them are considered monuments of exceptional importance to the culture of Belgrade, but also all over Serbia. They resemble the people and events that have marked our country and our capital city. Belgrade’s beautiful, historic city, which has seen many wars and crossing the hands […]
Continue ReadingInternational Tourism Fair Belgrade, February 19 – 22, 2015.
The International Fair of Tourism is an internationally acclaimed tourism event that pays tribute to tourism services and solutions, tour planning services, tour operating services, tourism accessories and essentials and all products and services that are related with the world of tourism. The fair has been keen on meeting the international standard of tourism industry […]
Continue ReadingGuitar Art Festival 2015
Guitar Art Festival was founded in 2000 and today represents a professional and expert event that gathers classical guitarists of all kinds: amateurs, primary and secondary music schools pupils, students, as well as their teachers and professors and eminent guests, leading world guitarists.
Continue ReadingBelgrade International Film Festival 2015
Belgrade International Film Festival, called FEST, is an annual film festival held in Belgrade, Serbia since 1971. It was the only film festival in socialist countries that attracted big Hollywood stars such as Jack Nicholson, Kirk Douglas, Robert De Niro, Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda and famous directors like Miloš Forman, Francis Ford Coppola, Roman Polanski etc.
Continue Reading5 Classy Belgrade Restaurants
Like any other cosmopoliten city Belgrade is full of great restaurants. Whether you would like a sushi restaurant, an American steakhouse, an Italian restaurant, a Thai eatery or exotic Cajun cuisine – you will find it all. Off course, most of restaurants serve Serbia traditional food, that is hearty and tasty, with lot of meat. […]
Continue ReadingBelgrade finds energy to rise again
In the heart of Belgrade, the vibrant and resilient capital of Serbia, a slow and colorful transformation is taking place. Once ugly and industrial, the historic neighborhood of Savamala has emerged in recent years as the thriving epicenter of the city’s cultural life. Following decades of neglect, Savamala is now blossoming back to life as […]
Continue ReadingSerbia featured for Best in Travel 2015
This astonishingly inexpensive country is one of Europe’s best-kept secrets. But get in quick: the genre-jumping Exit Festival – annexing a medieval fortress in Novi Sad each July since it began as an anti-Milošević protest – was awarded the Best Major European Festival title. Belgrade is being mentioned in the same panting breaths as Berlin […]
Continue ReadingTop luxury hotels in Belgrade
Forget the images of the war-torn 90s: today’s Belgrade is welcoming, exciting and diverse. Spend a few days here and you’ll promise never to believe the stereotypes again. Yes, you’ll still see the odd burst of nationalist graffiti, but this is a city determined to move on – and it’s successfully doing so. Restaurants and […]
Continue ReadingJosip Broz Tito – The Last Yugoslav Emperor
To understand Serbia and the relationship with its neighbours today, you need to look back many decades. You need to look back to the time when Yugoslavia brought together most of the Balkans under the one country. And, most importantly, you need to know more about Marshal Josip Broz Tito – a man referred to simply […]
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