Geometry, integrals and high mathematics fall defeated before the simple question of “How were New Belgrade blocks numerized?” Where is the connection between Block 50 and 6 and why are they next to e...
An embarrassing confession: I once imagined – as did many people I talked to – that in Vracar, decades ago, there used to live a lovely little granny who selflessly gave children cherry pastries, milk...
“Do not cause excess noise near his habitat, that won’t get him to move.”
Try to imagine yourself reading this warning. Where are you in that moment? Who is that stubborn lazybones? Let us help you...
If you could choose one street in Belgrade to show to a friend who is only here for an afternoon, where would you go?
From Sava to Danube from the I to XXI century, one of the oldest streets in the c...
On the 1st of September 1808 in Dorcol, more specifically in the corner of Gospodar Jevremove and Kralja Petra streets, a group of boys and their families had gathered to hear what the elegant gentlem...
That fall of 1981 three guys in their early twenties were too good, almost acrobatic, in taming the sounds of Yugoslavian “New Wave” music. In that social-political and cultural atmosphere there was m...
The year is 1932. On the edge of Belgrade, behind Vracar, there is a hill known as Veliki Vracar, the large, mysterious, forested area which at the time belonged to the so-called “Fifth region” (third...
One of the principles of Communism in the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia was that the national production should be independent from foreign producers. This meant strict import regulation...
Like a wall which separates Westeros from the Far North in “Game of Thrones” in the New Belgrade’s Block 21 the “Meander” building boldly reaches up into the sky. This residential titan of over 1,000m...
The band “Partibrejkers” (Partybreakers) was founded in the summer of 1982 and had their first performance in the fall that same year, in Dadov Youth Theatre where many other legendary rock bands bega...
Skadarlija. It is a curving street which exudes the spirit of old times and the piled up footsteps of bohemians, actors and poets who are drinking deep into the night still echo down the cobblestones...
Over the course of their 26 year long career, the cult Belgrade rock band “Kandza, Kodza i Nebojsa” passed through various phases, but they never lacked faith, hope, love and attitude. As they sang in...