WHAT TO SEE IN BELGRADE: CULTURAL MONUMENTS

The Belgrade City Library was originally built as the Srpska Kruna (Serbian Crown) hotel, in Romantic style, in 1869. At the time it was the most modern and best equipped hotel in Belgrade, built b...

The well was built during the baroque Austrian reconstruction of the Fortress, in the period between 1717 until 1731, when it was named "The Big Well". The name "Roman Well", first mentioned in the...

Kolarac's National University, or Kolarac Foundation, is an immobile cultural asset and represents an institution of great cultural and historical significance. In April 2013, the Ministry of Cultu...

Located in Bozic's house, built in 1836 by pig merchant Miloje Bozic, which is itself a cultural monument. The museum keeps theater material that testifies to the development of the theater in Serb...

The courtyard house was built between 1878 and 1883. Since the end of the 19th century, the family Veljkovic has left an indelible mark with its active commitment to the overall social development....

The Ethnographic Museum houses a large number of ethnographic items, divided into separate exhibits (household items, jewellery, customs, national costumes, national architecture, economy, stock fa...

The construction of the residence within the court complex in Topcider lasted from 1831 to 1834. Immediately after the completion of the works, the residence (Konak) assumed the role of the officia...

The desire to establish a permanent professional theater in Belgrade dates back to 1841. After almost three decades of performing plays at various places in the capital, on 18th August, 1868, Princ...

The library was officially opened in 1921, although it has long played an important role for the academic development of the country. The World War I led to the irrecoverable loss of diverse litera...

It was built in 1959 to be used by the Federal Executive Council of Yugoslavia. It was informally known as the Palace of the Federation (Palata Federacije) before given its present name. The repre...

In the very center of Belgrade, a unique house with over two centuries of tradition, tells many stories and hides secrets of one of the most prominent diplomatic families in Serbia. Meet "Serbian M...

Dositej Obradovic was born in Cakovo in 1739, (or in 1742 or 1744) and died in 1811 in Belgrade. The monument was built in 1914 at the initiative of Jovan Skerlic and Srpska knjizevna zadruga (the ...

The birth house of field marshal Stepa Stepanović in Kumodraž, where the renowned military commandment, a general and field marshal who participated in all wars from 1876 till 1918 in which Serbia ...

The National Assembly Building was built in the vicinity of the place where the Grand National Assembly Meeting was held in November 30, 1830. At the gathering, the Turkish sultan’s imperial Edict ...

Designed by Franz Loran, the Terazije Fountain was erected in 1860 to mark the return to the throne of Prince Milos Obrenovic. It was fashioned in the tomantic style and represents one of the most ...

The White Palace (Beli Dvor) is located within the same copmplex as The Royal Palace. King Alexander I built The White Palace with its own private funds, as the residence for his three sons: Peter ...

This architectural beauty was built in 1907 and is a work of two, Nikola Nestorovic and Andre Stankovic. As it is visibly influenced by French esthetics, the reason for that is the creators' visit ...

Main Post Office Building in Belgrade is located on the corner of Takovska Street and King Aleksandar Boulevard

It was built during the great Austrian reconstruction of the Belgrade Fortress between 1718 and 1720. The goal was to make a safe powder shelter, a place protected from the enemy artillery. It was ...

According to the project of the architectural duo, Ivanka Raspopovic and Ivan Antic, the museum was built from 1960 to 1965. Miodrag B. Protic is the founder, and at the very opening he received gr...

The site that became the Sajmiste concentration camp during World War II had originally been an exhibition centre built by the Belgrade municipality in 1937in an attempt to attract international co...

The Old Palace, the residence of the Serbian Obrenovic dynasty, was built in the period between 1882 and 1884, according to the design of Aleksandar Bugarski in the architectual style of academism....

The National Library of Serbia was built between 1966 and 1972 after the design by architect Ivo Kurtovic. The author conceived it as a free standing, detached, building in the area around St. Sava...

In 1949 Vuk’s collection has been separated from the National Museum collection and joined the small legacy of Dositej Obradovic. On February 28, 1949 The Museum of Vuk and Dositej was formed and o...

In this camp formed in the complex of the old barracks, between 1941 and 1944, the Nazi occupier committed a large number of crimes - approximately 4.200 detainees were executed, most of them Serbs...

The monastery belongs to the Archdiocese of Belgrade-Karlovac and is dedicated to Archangels Michael and Gabriel (Mihailo and Gavrilo). From the 16th century, it is located in the present place and...

A magnificent building that keeps the spirit of Belgrade from the 19th century. It was built for 6 years, from 1857 until 1863, so it was a unique architectural landmark even at the time of constru...

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...

The building of the Serbian Acadamy of Sciences and Arts (SANU) was constructed in the academic style with elements of Art Nouveau in 1924. It is the work of Dragutin Djordjevic and Andra Stevanovi...

An eminent bookshop owner and printer, Gligorije Vozarevic (1790-1848), in his field on Vracar, in 1847, built a red cross embellished with icons. The symbol of victory and freedom is also the firs...

Sahat Tower, located above the gate which was named "Sahat Gate" after it, was built during the period between 1740 and 1789. The overall appearance of the tower, with prominent baroque elements, d...

It was built in 1898 as a representative family house on a plot of very sharp corner whose central facade became the bearer of further construction in Belgrade in the style of Academic art.

The Royal Palace in Dedinje was built between 1924 and 1929, on the orders by King Alexander I, as the official royal residence. It is a spacious and representative villa built of white stone in th...

Manak's house was built about 1830 in Savamalska Street, on the old road that connected Varos-kapija and the old Belgrade quarter of Savamala. One of the owners of the house was Manak Mihailovic, a...

Belgrade Astronomical Observatory is one of the oldest scientific institutions in Serbia. The decree of its founding conjointly with the Meteorological Observatory was signed on April 7th, 1887 by ...

The Residence of Princess Ljubica is one of few buildings surviving from the first reign of Prince Milosh Obrenovic. It was built between 1829 and 1831 according to the project and under the superv...

Back in 1983, it was proclaimed a historical and cultural good of great importance for Serbia. The "Association of culturally important cemeteries of Europe" has included the New Cemetery in its li...

It represents a monument built in memory of a sad incident when Turkish soldiers killed a little apprentice - a boy called Sava Petkovic on 15th June 1862. There is his statue on the fountain and t...

Nebojsa Tower represents the only remaining well preserved medieval building within the Belgrade Fortress. It was built around 1460 and belongs to the oldest type of early artillery canon towers. W...

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...

The New Palace was built in a period from 1911 to 1922 as a royal residence of the Karadjordjevic dynasty. Laid out as an architectural counterpart of the Old Palace, the new royal residence histor...