BELGRADE SIGHTSEEING: LANDMARKS

Although it has been in the urban plan of Belgrade since 1923, it was built and opened almost a century later - in 2012. It is 964 m long with the 200 m high pylon. Bridge was named after the citiz...

The former Karadjordjevic family Royal garden was redecorated after the World War II, in 1945, into a city park which was renamed into Pionirski Park in 1952 because of the fountain dedicated to pi...

Vinca culture has flourished during the second half of the Neolithic Era (5,300 - 4,500 BC) and has become synonymous with the entire Neolithic epoch in Europe.

The Avala tower was finished in 1965 and was used as a telecommunications tower. At the time, it was the fifth tallest (202.87 metres) self-supporting construction in the world, after Empire State ...

Beogradjanka, the symbol of the city. The famous beauty was an architectural wonder at the time of its "birth", especially because the skyscrapers were not a Balkan region characteristic. It was bu...

The Yugoslav Cinematheque, or the National Film Archive of Serbia, was officially opened on 5th August, 1949. Film archive, library and three halls represent the base of a magnificent and unique ci...

Vuk Stefanovic Karadzic (1787 - 1864) is the great reformer of the Serbian language. He worked as a scribe in the Sovjet (then goverment) after the First Serbian Uprising, then as a teacher and civ...

Ada Ciganlija is elongated river island created on the fourth kilometer of the Sava River from the confluence of the Danube River. Name Ciganlija could come from Celtic words "single" and "lia", wh...

The square had been a marshy pond prior to 1880, where the citizens of Belgrade hunted wild ducks. The Scotsman Francis McKenzie purchased a large area above the modern-day square and parcelled it ...

Belgrade Fortress is located on top of the cliff-like ridge overlooking the confluence of the Sava and the Danube. This is the last raised ground in the Balkan Peninsula that controls the access to...

During the five centuries under Turkish slavery, the greatest insult was made to the Serbian people in 1594, when the Turkish invaders brought the body of Saint Sava, which rested in the Mileševa M...

It covers the space between the "Gradska Kafana" (City Restaurant), "Jadran" cinema, the National Theatre and the Army Hall of Serbia. The present square was formed after the demolition of the Stam...

New urban complex in the capital

Park forest Kosutnjak is just 6 km southwest from the downtown and it is colloquially styled "Belgrade's oxygen factory". The Kosutnjak hill is 250 m high and the entire forest complex covers an ar...

Tasmajdan where many historical events took place is the central city park, beautifully decorated with many amenities for children and young people. Tasmajdan name comes from Turkish word "Tas" - m...

It was built in 1896 to mark 1,000 years Hungarians stays in Pannonia region. For the Millennium Tower, it can be freely said that to this day it causes an avalanche of blunders and doubts as to it...