Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #17 in Belgrade, Serbia
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9.9 km
266 m
Experience Belgrade in Serbia in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.
Activities in BelgradeIndividual Sights in BelgradeSight 1: Monument to Vuk Karadžić
The Vuk Karadzic Monument is a monument in Belgrade and is a statue of Vuk Karadzic. The monument is located at the intersection of King Alexander Boulevard and Roosevelt Street.
Sight 2: Svetozar Marković University Library
The University Library Svetozar Marković (Serbian: Универзитетска библиотека Светозар Марковић) is the main library in the University of Belgrade system, named after Svetozar Marković, a Serbian political activist in the 19th century. It is located on King Alexander Boulevard, close to the Faculty of Law and adjacent to the Faculties of Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Architecture. Serves the educational and scientific needs of students, academics, and scientists. Library Day is 24 May, a day commemorating Slavic educators St. Cyril and Methodius. At the founding of the library, the collection contained 57,254 publications consisting of monographs and serials. Today, the library contains roughly 1,700,000 publications.
Wikipedia: Belgrade University Library (EN), Heritage Website
Sight 3: Биста војводе Петра Бојовића
The memorial bust of Duke Petar Bojović is a monument in Belgrade built of bronze, and is located in the municipality of Vračar.
Wikipedia: Спомен-биста војводи Петру Бојовићу у Београду (SR)
Sight 4: Nikola Tesla Museum
The Nikola Tesla Museum is a science museum located in Belgrade, Serbia. It is dedicated to honoring and displaying the life and work of Nikola Tesla as well as the final resting place for Tesla. It holds more than 160,000 original documents, over 2,000 books and journals, over 1,200 historical technical exhibits, over 1,500 photographs and photo plates of original, technical objects, instruments and apparatus, and over 1,000 plans and drawings. Very little is on display in the small ground floor exhibition space.
Sight 5: Дом браће Крстић
The Krstić Brothers House is located in Belgrade, at the King Milutin street no.5, since 1973, with the status of cultural heritage. The house was built in the late 19th century as a representative of a residential buildings. As there was no saved data of the architect, it was assumed, based on some elements of decoration, that the author of the project could be the architect Јован Илкић. Soon after the raising of the house, Krstic family moved in. The family were known for their two children, a renowned architects Peter and Branko.
Sight 6: Парк Душана Јовановића
Mitic's Hole is a public city park in Belgrade, located in the municipality of Vračar.
Sight 7: Биста Наде Пурић
The memorial bust of Nada Purić is a monument in Belgrade. It is located on the corner of 43 Kneginje Zorke Street and Mackenzie Street, in the municipality of Vračar.
Sight 8: Monument to Saint Sava
The Monument to St. Sava is a monument in Belgrade. It is located on the St. Sava Plateau in front of the Temple of St. Sava, at the entrance from Katanićeva Street in the municipality of Vračar.
Sight 9: Saint Sava Cathedral
The Church of Saint Sava is a 79 m high Serbian Orthodox church, which sits on the Vračar plateau in Belgrade, Serbia. It was planned as the bishopric seat and main cathedral of the Serbian Orthodox Church. The church is dedicated to Saint Sava, the founder of the Serbian Orthodox Church and an important figure in medieval Serbia. It is built on the presumed location of St. Sava's grave. His coffin had been moved from Mileševa Monastery to Belgrade. The coffin was placed on a pyre and burnt in 1595 by Ottoman Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha. Bogdan Nestorović and Aleksandar Deroko were finally chosen to be the architects in 1932 after a second revised competition in 1926–27. This sudden decision instigated an important debate in interwar Yugoslavia which centered around the temple's size, design and symbolic national function. This was accompanied by a sizeable increase in the base area of the ambitiously conceived project. The new design departed from the competition guidelines issued in 1926, and was to replicate the dimensions and architecture of Hagia Sophia.
Sight 10: Vracar Plateau
Vračar plateau is a plateau on top of the Vračar Hill in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, with an absolute height of 134 metres above sea level. It is the purported location of the 1594 Burning of Saint Sava's relics by the Ottomans. The dominant position in Belgrade's cityscape made the plateau a natural location for the first meteorological observatory in Serbia, Belgrade Meteorological Station, built in 1891. The most distinctive feature of the plateau today is a massive Church of Saint Sava, visible from almost all approaches to the city, and one of the Belgrade's main landmarks. The plateau also houses Karađorđe's Park, Park Milutin Milanković, monument of Karađorđe Petrović and National Library of Serbia.
Sight 11: Monument to Nikola Tesla
The monument to Nikola Tesla is a monument in Belgrade. It is located in Karadjordje Park in the municipality of Vračar.
Sight 12: National Library of Serbia
The National Library of Serbia is the national library of Serbia, located in the capital city of Belgrade. It is the biggest library, and oldest institution in Serbia, one that was completely destroyed many times over in the last two centuries.
Wikipedia: National Library of Serbia (EN), Website, Heritage Website
Sight 13: Споменик Карађорђу
Karađorđe Monument refers to either of two monuments in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. The older one was built in 1913 in the Greater Kalemegdan section of the Belgrade Fortress and demolished by the occupying Austro-Hungarian forces in 1916 during World War I. The present monument was dedicated in 1979 on the Vračar plateau.
Wikipedia: Karađorđe Monument, Belgrade (EN), Heritage Website
Sight 14: Споменик Милутину Миланковићу
The monument to Milutin Milanković is a monument in Belgrade. It is located in the park of the same name in Zapadni Vračar, between the Boulevard of Liberation, Pasterova and Tiršova streets in the municipality of Savski venac.
Sight 15: Споменик Васи Пелагићу
The monument of Vasi Pelagić is located in Belgrade, on Vracar. It represents immovable culturally as a cultural monument.
Sight 16: Pavillion Veljkovic
The Veljković Family House is a historic building that hosts frequent cultural events and exhibitions in central Belgrade, Serbia, Built in 1883 in the style of 19th century academism, it was the historical seat of the elite Veljković family, and initially known for its interior architecture and 1931 art pavilion. Plundered and half-destroyed in 1944 by Soviet occupation forces and then seized by the communist Yugoslavian state, its garden became the site of the East German Embassy while the house remained neglected for four decades, until renovation work begun by the family in 1991 was completed in 2007.
Sight 17: Зграда Социјалног осигурања
The Social Security Building in Belgrade is located in the city municipality of Savski Venac, in Nemanjina 30 in Belgrade. It is included in the cultural monument of Serbia.
Wikipedia: Зграда Социјалног осигурања у Београду (SR), Heritage Website
Sight 18: Храст лужњак на Цветном тргу
The Oak Natural Monument on the Flower Square is a protected natural asset. It is located in Njegoševa Street in the municipality of Vračar and is the oldest botanical Natural Monument in Belgrade.
Sight 19: Yugoslav Drama Theatre
Yugoslav Drama Theatre is a theatre located in Belgrade, Serbia.
Sight 20: Bust of Frédéric Chopin
The memorial bust of Frederic Chopin is a monument in Belgrade. It is located in Manž Park in the municipality of Savski Venac.
Sight 21: Manjez Park
Manjež Park is a public park situated in the centre of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia.
Sight 22: Bust of Franz Liszt
The memorial bust of Franz List is a monument in Belgrade. It is located in Manž Park in the municipality of Savski Venac.
Sight 23: Ruins of Yugoslav General Staff from 1999 NATO bombing
The Yugoslav Ministry of Defence Building, also known as the General Staff Building, is a complex of government buildings, that formerly housed the Ministry of Defence of Yugoslavia and the General Staff of the Yugoslav People's Army, now housing the Ministry of Defence of Serbia. It is located in Savski Venac, Belgrade.
Wikipedia: Yugoslav Ministry of Defence Building (EN), Heritage Website
Sight 24: Belgrade City Museum
The Belgrade City Museum is a museum located in Belgrade, Serbia. Founded in 1903, the museum operates with several cultural institutions: Ivo Andrić Museum, Princess Ljubica's Residence, Paja Jovanović Museum, Jovan Cvijić Museum, Banjica Concentration Camp Museum, Collection of Icons Sekulić, Archaeological Site Vinča and Zemun Museum.
Sight 25: Дом сироте деце
The orphan children's home is located in Belgrade, at 72 Svetozara Markovica Street, on the territory of the municipality of Savski Venac. It represents an immovable cultural property as a cultural monument.
Sight 26: Докторова кула
The Doctor's Tower is a tower in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia that is a historic former doctors residence and then psychiatric clinic. It is located at 103 Kneza Miloša street, in the municipality of Savski venac. The tower was built in 1824 by the Italian doctor Vito Romita, one of the first doctors in Serbia after the uprisings. In 1965, the tower was protected by law as an important cultural monument.
Sight 27: Министарство унутрашњих послова Републике Србије
The building of the Ministry of Social Policy and Public Health is located in the City Municipality of Savski Venac, at 101 Kneza Miloša Street in Belgrade. It is included in the Cultural Monument of Serbia.
Wikipedia: Зграда Министарства социјалне политике и народног здравља у Београду (SR), Heritage Website
Sight 28: Bista vojvode Radomira Putnika
The memorial bust of Duke Radomir Putnik is a monument in Belgrade. It is located in the Boulevard of Duke Putnik in the municipality of Savski Venac.
Wikipedia: Спомен-биста војводи Радомиру Путнику у Београду (SR)
Sight 29: Hyde Park
Hyde Park is a park in suburban Belgrade, Serbia. It is situated in the municipality of Savski Venac, on the northern slopes of Topčider Hill. It consists of two parts: woodland with tracks for running, and another with appliances for fitness and recreation. The park is triangular in shape. Hyde Park was laid out in the 1930s.
Sight 30: Milan Vapa's Paper Mill
Milan Vape Paper Factory is a factory from Belgrade founded in 1905, and in 1924 a large modern factory was built. It operated successfully until the Second World War, and after the war it became state ownership. In the 1950s, it ceased operations and its machines were moved to the industrial area of Ada Hu.
Wikipedia: Фабрика хартије Милана Вапе (SR), Heritage Website
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