Belgrade Attractions

Historic Fortress

Stari Grad

From the Victor terrace you look straight down at the seam where the green Sava pushes into the brown Danube — two colours of water that take a while to mix.

Bohemian Street

Stari Grad

The cobblestones were laid in 1968 to look like 1890 — and two drinks in, you stop caring.

Beach · Recreation

Čukarica

A river island that was turned into a peninsula and a lake in 1967 — seven kilometres of beach, twenty minutes from Republic Square.

Orthodox Church

Vračar

The dome mosaic is forty million pieces of gold and glass — and it only went up in 2020, after eighty years of bare concrete.

Science Museum

Vračar

The urn holding Tesla's ashes is here — a gilded sphere in an upstairs room, twenty metres from the rig they use to run alternating current past the crowd.

Royal Park

Topčider

The plane tree by Milos's residence was planted around 1830 and its trunk is now over six metres around.

Historic Tower

Zemun

The tower went up in 1896 for Hungary's thousand-year anniversary — on what was then the empire's border, running straight through what is now Belgrade.

Art & History Museum

Stari Grad

This is where the Miroslav Gospel from 1180 is kept — the oldest surviving Serbian book, two floors below a Van Gogh.

Riverside Walk

Zemun

The swans on this stretch of the Danube are permanent residents — the neighbourhood feeds them every morning, all year.

Military Museum

Stari Grad

The tanks sit outside on the ramparts where you can walk up and put a hand on them — including wreckage from the American stealth fighter shot down in 1999.

History Museum

Savski Venac

Tito's mausoleum and the relay batons, gifts and objects of a country that no longer exists

Modern Art Museum

Novi Beograd

Yugoslav modernist landmark at the confluence, holding 20th-century art of the region

Ethnographic Museum

Stari Grad

Folk costume, craft and village life across the Balkans, floor by floor

Orthodox Church

Stari Grad

Ivy-covered church inside the fortress walls, with chandeliers made from spent shell casings

Chapel · Holy Spring

Stari Grad

Mosaic-lined chapel built over a spring people still queue to drink from

Cathedral Church

Stari Grad

Belgrade's 1840 cathedral, burial place of Serbian princes and Vuk Karadžić

Orthodox Church

Palilula

Serbo-Byzantine church modelled on Gračanica, holding Emperor Dušan's tomb

Orthodox Church

Dorćol

Quiet Dorcol parish church with a Russian dedication and a shaded churchyard

City Park

Palilula

Park built over a Roman quarry and a wartime shelter, now benches, chess and fountains

Forest Park

Čukarica

330 hectares of oak and beech forest with running trails and the old royal hunting ground

Botanical Garden

Stari Grad

University garden from 1889 with a cast-iron glasshouse and a Japanese section

Shopping Centre

Novi Beograd

The largest mall in the region, at the confluence next to Ušće Tower

Shopping Centre

Savski Venac

Waterfront mall with a rooftop terrace over the Sava and 300-plus shops

Shopping Centre

Stari Grad

Glass mall dropped into the old town, its entrance right on the pedestrian street

Shopping Centre

Novi Beograd

New Belgrade's long-standing mall, cinema and food court included

Shopping Centre

Voždovac

Voždovac mall with a supermarket, cinema and the neighbourhood's weekend crowd

Shopping Centre

Voždovac

Mall built into the stand of a football stadium — the pitch sits on its roof

Forest Park

Voždovac

Forested hill south of the city with the Monument to the Unknown Hero and the Avala Tower at the top

Riverside Park

Novi Beograd

Flat riverside park where the Sava meets the Danube, with cycle paths, fountains and summer concerts

Forest Park

Zvezdara

Belgrade's second-largest forest, laced with running trails and quiet enough to hear the birds

City Park

Stari Grad

Small formal park between the Old and New Palace, with chestnut avenues and benches in the shade

Nature Reserve

Zemun

Protected river island at the confluence, reachable by pontoon bridge in summer — herons, willows and the Lido beach

Forest Park

Voždovac

Neighbourhood pine forest with an outdoor gym, a marked running loop and dogs off the lead