The First Belgrade singing company was founded next to the Congregation Church in 1853, and it stayed active to this day. Important composers conducted this choir, such as Josif Marinkovic, Stevan Mok...
The king Milan Obrenovic gifted his estate for the needs of the botanical garden, but under one condition. Seeing how he inherited that estate from his grandfather, Master Jevrem Obrenovic, he wanted...
The old St. Mark’s church was constructed in 1835 on the foundation of the even older Palilula church and it was located precisely in the place where in 183o the Hatti-Sheriff of the Sultan about the...
Zemun got its first post office building in 1780, in the same spot that it still is today, at 8 Glavna street. By the end of the 19th century, the main post office in Zemun built a new building in pla...
The old Serbian National assembly in Belgrade was located on the corner of Kraljice Natalije and Kneza Milosa streets, where once stood the cinema Odeon.
The bridge across Ada is the largest hanging bridge in the world supported by only one pylon.
It is the third bridge in the world in terms of cable length, behind two bridges in Russia. The total le...
After constructing the King Alexander's bridge, Zemun was physically and administratively joint to Belgrade in 1934, with an interruption between 1941 to 1944 while it was under German occupation. As...
With the approval of Military command, on 23rd September 1858, the two-grade lower real school (predecesor of Zemun 'gimnazija' high school). It was primarily located in the building construted in 178...
Even though it was constructed for the needs of a German Evangelical-Christian church, the building of Bitef theatre never had the status of a religious building.
The original project included the c...
During the Turkish rule, there were around 270 mosques and special Islamic prayer rooms.
After Serbia gained independence in 1878, Serbia gained the official authority to tear down all the mosques i...
One of the oldest and largest beer breweries in Belgrade used to work from a building located on the corner of Cetinjska and Skadarska streets. The Bajloni brewery in 1903 was producing around 28000l...
The first bridge in Belgrade was constructed in the Roman ages, but there's no remaining info on whether it was a wooden or a pontoon bridge.
The first documented bridge existed in 1596 and was cons...
The largest Orthodox construction in the Balkans - and one of the largest orthodox churches in the world - the St. Sava Temple is located in Belgrade. With a 70m tall central dome and a gilded cross o...
Before the Jevremovac botanical garden came to be, there was a smaller botanical garden in Dorcol, right next to the coast of Danube. It was founded after the suggestion of Josif Pancic in 1874 and by...
Bezanija, the village beneath Bezanijska Kosa on the left bank of Sava, has existed under its current name since 1512 when the Turkish records noted that 32 Serbian families live there.
It's probable...
Glavnjaca is the name for the old Belgrade city managment building which up to 1953 was located in the spot of today's Chemistry college.
This building housed the HQ of the city police and prison, wh...
According to legend, Atila was buried in Belgrade, in Great war island.
The Huns allegedly dug for days in order to re-route the Sava river near her confluence with Danube and then dug a deep grave o...
The building is located in the corner of Knez Mihailova and 1300 kaplara is called "Lahovari palace" - the first two-story building in Knez Mihailova, constructed in 1870. The "Palace Lahovari" - the...
Nica beach was the first Belgrade sand beach. It got its name after a nearby tavern and stretched on the left bank of Sava, between Branko's and Old Sava bridge. It had swings, marry-go-rounds and cha...
Archeological research determined that in the location of today's Student park there used to be pools of hot, warm and lukewarm water, while remnants of a floor heating system show that this location...
Bulbulder is a settlement in Zvezdara. The name bulbulder comes from the Turkish word 'bulbul' - which means nightingale and 'dere' which means valley. The entire name translates to Nightingale's vall...
The statue "Victor" was originally meant to be set up in Terazije square. However, due to the disapproval of the citizens because of the statue's nudity, it was decided it should be set in Kalemegdan....
In the corner of Kralja Petra and Cara Lazara you can find the building of National bank of Serbia. The foundation for the building intended to become the bank was set in 1887 in the then Dubrovac str...
From this place, located where today's Vozdovac district is, Duke Karadjordje led his uprisers and in 1806 liberated Belgrade from the Turks for the first time. To comemorate this event, the neighborh...