District guide · Belgrade
Stari Grad is one of three central municipalities of Belgrade, encompassing some of the city's oldest urban sections. The Beograđska Tvrđava fortress, Narodni m...
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Stari Grad is one of three central municipalities of Belgrade, encompassing some of the city's oldest urban sections. The Beograđska Tvrđava fortress, Narodni muzej Srbije and Vojni muzej stand among its catalogued places. The district contains significant historical monuments, religious sites and cultural institutions that reflect Belgrade's layered past.
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Београдска тврђава
Belgrade Fortress is a historic complex rather than a single enclosed building: its Upper Town and Lower Town occupy about 57 hectares within Kalemegdan Park, on the ridge above the confluence of the Sava and Danube.
Народни музеј Србије
The National Museum is the oldest and largest museum in Serbia, and it was shut for fifteen years. It was founded on 10 May 1844.
Војни музеј
Belgrade Military Museum occupies a distinctive building on the upper terrace of Kalemegdan, within the Belgrade Fortress grounds. Its setting is part of the experience: the museum combines indoor historical galleries with heavy weapons displayed outside around the building.
Конак кнегиње Љубице
Princess Ljubica’s Residence is an 1830 house commissioned as a representative court for the Obrenović dynasty. Hadži Nikola Živković, Prince Miloš Obrenović’s official builder, designed and supervised its construction.
Етнографски музеј
Belgrade’s Ethnographic Museum is a focused introduction to everyday culture in Serbia and the wider South Slavic world.
Народно позориште у Београду
The National Theatre opened on Republic Square in 1868, modelled by the architect Aleksandar Bugarski on Milan's La Scala and Moscow's Bolshoi rather than on a local precedent, at a time when Serbia was asserting itself as a modern European…
Ботаничка башта Јевремовац
Jevremovac is a university botanic garden in the Stari Grad municipality of Belgrade, run by the University of Belgrade's School of Biology.
Рушевине Народне библиотеке из нацистичког бомбардовања 1941.
Антички Сингидунум
Singidunum is the Roman name for the fortified settlement that stood on the ridge now occupied by Belgrade Fortress, at the point where the Sava River meets the Danube.
Калемегдан
Kalemegdan Park is the 53-hectare public park that wraps around Belgrade Fortress on a 125-metre-high cliff at the junction of the Sava and Danube rivers.
Споменик кнезу Михаилу
The Monument to Prince Mihailo is a bronze equestrian statue standing at the centre of Republic Square, Belgrade's main square.
Музеј Вука и Доситеја
The Museum of Vuk and Dositej is a single-house museum in the Stari Grad district of Belgrade dedicated to two figures of the Serbian Enlightenment: Dositej Obradović (1742–1811), writer and Serbia's first Minister of Education, and Vuk Stefanović Karadžić (1787–1864)…
Саборни храм Светог архангела Михаила
St. Michael's Cathedral is the seat of the Serbian Orthodox Metropolitanate of Belgrade, built between 1837 and 1845 on the site of an earlier church destroyed in the Ottoman era.
Атеље 212
Atelje 212 is a repertory theatre in central Belgrade, opened on 12 November 1956 with a staging of Goethe's Faust directed by Mira Trailović.
Храм Светог Александра Невског
The Church of St. Alexander Nevsky is a Serbian Orthodox parish church in Belgrade's Dorćol neighborhood, standing on Cara Dušana Street in the Stari Grad municipality.
Музеј примењене уметности
The Museum of Applied Art on Vuka Karadžića street holds over 37,000 objects spanning 2,400 years of applied art, founded on 6 November 1950. Its oldest pieces are Ancient Greek coins from the fourth century BC.
Кафана „?”
Kafana “?” is Belgrade's oldest still-operating tavern, and it wears its name as a scar from a fight with the church across the street.
Музеј Иве Андрића
The Museum of Ivo Andrić is a memorial museum in Belgrade dedicated to Ivo Andrić, the writer and Nobel Prize laureate whose work is central to Yugoslav and Serbian literary memory.
Споменик захвалности Француској
Twenty thousand people filled Kalemegdan Park on 11 November 1930 to watch King Alexander I, Queen Maria, Prince Paul and Princess Olga unveil a bronze woman striding forward with one arm raised — Belgrade's Monument of Gratitude to France, dedicated…
Гробница народних хероја
The Tomb of National Heroes is a memorial in Kalemegdan Park at Belgrade Fortress. The public enterprise that manages the fortress dates the tomb to 1948.
Дом Јеврема Грујића
The house known today as Jevrem Grujic's House is one of the oldest preserved civic houses in Belgrade's old town, built in the early decades of the nineteenth century, in the years after the Serbian uprisings when the town's Ottoman-era…
ПТТ музеј
Belgrade Post Museum presents Serbia’s postal, telegraph and telephone heritage through historical equipment, documents and postal artefacts. The museum occupies the ground floor of the First Telephone Exchange building at Majke Jevrosime 13, at the corner of Palmotićeva Street.
Историјски музеј Србије
The Historical Museum of Serbia (Istorijski muzej Srbije) was established in 1963 as the national institution charged with collecting material on Serbian history from the medieval state through the twentieth century, distinct from the archaeology-focused National Museum next to Republic…
Јеврејски историјски музеј
The Jewish Historical Museum (Jevrejski istorijski muzej) opened in 1948, founded by the historian Lavoslav Kadelburg and colleagues under the Federation of Jewish Communities of Yugoslavia, and it remains housed inside the federation's own building on Kralja Petra street in…
Југословенска кинотека
At Uzun Mirkova 1 beside Student Square, the Yugoslav Film Archive brings together a permanent museum exhibition and a working cinema institution.
