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Theme: History, Up to 1 hour in Serbia

Serbia is landlocked, 88,499 square kilometres, about 6.5 million people, and its rivers explain it better than its borders do. Belgrade stands where the Sava m...

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Reviewed by Elena Voss · Roavina Travel Editor

Serbia is landlocked, 88,499 square kilometres, about 6.5 million people, and its rivers explain it better than its borders do. Belgrade stands where the Sava meets the Danube, and the fortress, the old town and the river traffic all gather at that junction. North of the capital, Vojvodina is flat farmland with Novi Sad and its own fortress on the Danube; south of it the land climbs into hills, monasteries and spa towns that see far fewer foreign visitors. The country is crossed in a few hours, so Serbia is usually visited as Belgrade plus one more thing.

Checked 2026-08-25

Cities

Every city catalogued in this country so far, ranked by how much there is to see.

Practical information

Language spoken
Serbian
Written in both Cyrillic and Latin; English is understood in tourist districts
Dialling code
+381
The country code; each city adds its own area code
Currency
Serbian dinar (RSD)
Euros are not accepted; cards are widely taken in Belgrade
Emergency number
112
One number across the country; 194 reaches an ambulance directly
Plug type
Type C and F · 230 V
Standard European two-pin
Tap water
Not recorded
No verified national source in the dataset

Planning a visit

Seasonal closures come from recorded opening hours.

  1. January: seasonal closure recorded
  2. February: seasonal closure recorded
  3. March: seasonal closure recorded
  4. April: no seasonality data recorded
  5. May: no seasonality data recorded
  6. June: no seasonality data recorded
  7. July: no seasonality data recorded
  8. August: no seasonality data recorded
  9. September: no seasonality data recorded — this month
  10. October: seasonal closure recorded
  11. November: seasonal closure recorded
  12. December: seasonal closure recorded

Top things to see

Ranked by importance — sitelinks, pageviews and heritage status, not editor preference.

  1. Nikola Tesla Museum Nikola Tesla Museum
    02 1 hour

    Nikola Tesla Museum

    Музеј Николе Тесле

    Nikola Tesla Museum is a memorial and science museum at Krunska 51 in Belgrade’s Vračar district, occupying a villa where Tesla’s archive and personal legacy are preserved.

    • Must see
    • Museum
    • Belgrade
  2. Gardoš Tower Gardoš Tower
    03 30 min

    Gardoš Tower

    Кула Гардош

    Gardoš Tower, also called the Millennium Tower and Kula Sibinjanin Janka, rises 36 metres above Gardoš Hill in Zemun.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Belgrade
  3. St. Mark's Church St. Mark's Church
    04 30 min

    St. Mark's Church

    Црква Светог Марка

    St. Mark's Church is a Serbian Orthodox church on Tašmajdan hill in central Belgrade, built between 1931 and 1940 to designs by the brothers Petar and Branko Krstić, both professors at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Architecture.

    • Must see
    • Place of worship
    • Belgrade
  4. Museum of African Art Museum of African Art
    05 1 hour

    Museum of African Art

    Музеј афричке уметности

    The Museum of African Art occupies a villa at Andre Nikolića 14 in Senjak, on Topčider Hill, and is devoted entirely to African cultures and arts.

    • Must see
    • Museum
    • Belgrade
  5. Princess Ljubica's Residence Princess Ljubica's Residence
    06 1 hour

    Princess Ljubica's Residence

    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.

    • Must see
    • Museum
    • Belgrade
  6. Ruins of the National Library of Serbia
    07 15 min

    Ruins of the National Library of Serbia

    Рушевине Народне библиотеке из нацистичког бомбардовања 1941.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Belgrade
  7. Singidunum Singidunum
    08 30 min

    Singidunum

    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.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Belgrade
  8. Semlin concentration camp Semlin concentration camp
    09 45 min

    Semlin concentration camp

    Сабирни логор Сајмиште

    Staro Sajmište was a trade fair before it was a camp, and people live on the site now.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Belgrade
  9. Prince Mihailo Monument Prince Mihailo Monument
    10 15 min

    Prince Mihailo Monument

    Споменик кнезу Михаилу

    The Monument to Prince Mihailo is a bronze equestrian statue standing at the centre of Republic Square, Belgrade's main square.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Belgrade
  10. Museum of Vuk and Dositej Museum of Vuk and Dositej
    11 45 min

    Museum of Vuk and Dositej

    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)…

    • Must see
    • Museum
    • Belgrade
  11. Residence of Prince Miloš Residence of Prince Miloš
    12 45 min

    Residence of Prince Miloš

    Конак кнеза Милоша Обреновића

    The Residence of Prince Miloš was built between 1830 and 1834 for Miloš Obrenović, the prince who led Serbia's second uprising against Ottoman rule and secured its autonomy, and it is one of the few surviving buildings from that transitional…

    • Must see
    • Museum
    • Belgrade
  12. St. Michael's Cathedral St. Michael's Cathedral
    13 20 min

    St. Michael's Cathedral

    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.

    • Must see
    • Place of worship
    • Belgrade
  13. Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Belgrade Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Belgrade
    14 5 min

    Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Belgrade

    Београдска надбискупија

    This building on Svetozara Markovića street is the Episcopal Palace, seat of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Belgrade — the Roman Catholic archdiocese covering Central Serbia, with the Diocese of Subotica and the Diocese of Zrenjanin as its suffragans.

    • Must see
    • Place of worship
    • Belgrade
  14. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral Alexander Nevsky Cathedral
    15 20 min

    Alexander Nevsky Cathedral

    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.

    • Must see
    • Place of worship
    • Belgrade
  15. Railway Museum Railway Museum
    16 1 hour

    Railway Museum

    Железнички музеј

    The Railway Museum in Savski Venac is the national collection of Serbian and former Yugoslav railway history, founded on 1 February 1950. Its first exhibition, in 1953, was titled "Through the History of Yugoslav Railways".

    • Must see
    • Museum
    • Belgrade
  16. Co-cathedral of Christ the King in Belgrade Co-cathedral of Christ the King in Belgrade
    17 30 min

    Co-cathedral of Christ the King in Belgrade

    Црква Криста Краља

    The Co-cathedral of Christ the King on Krunska street is the oldest Catholic place of worship in Belgrade, a city where the Catholic minority has always shared ground with an Orthodox majority.

    • Must see
    • Place of worship
    • Belgrade
  17. Hammam of Prince Miloš Hammam of Prince Miloš
    18 15 min

    Hammam of Prince Miloš

    Амам кнеза Милоша

    The Hammam of Prince Miloš is a Turkish-style bathhouse built in 1836-37, and it is currently a bath nobody can bathe in: OpenStreetMap's own record of the site, last checked 27 April 2026, lists its opening hours as switched off.

    • Must see
    • Museum
    • Belgrade
  18. Monument of Gratitude to France Monument of Gratitude to France
    19 10 min

    Monument of Gratitude to France

    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…

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Belgrade
  19. Tomb of national heroes on Kalemegdan Tomb of national heroes on Kalemegdan
    20 10 min

    Tomb of national heroes on Kalemegdan

    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.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Belgrade
  20. Ičko’s House Ičko’s House
    21 20 min

    Ičko’s House

    Ičkova kuća

    Ičko's House at 18 Bežanijska street in Zemun is one of the oldest surviving town houses in the Belgrade area, built in 1793 in a plain Classical style — and it takes its name from a diplomat who hid there…

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Belgrade
  21. Jevrem Grujić's House Jevrem Grujić's House
    22 10 min

    Jevrem Grujić's House

    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…

    • Must see
    • Museum
    • Belgrade
  22. Historical Museum of Serbia Historical Museum of Serbia
    23 1 hour

    Historical Museum of Serbia

    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…

    • Must see
    • Museum
    • Belgrade
  23. Jewish Historical Museum Jewish Historical Museum
    24 1 hour

    Jewish Historical Museum

    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…

    • Must see
    • Museum
    • Belgrade
  24. Manak's House Manak's House
    25 45 min

    Manak's House

    Манакова кућа

    Manak House is a timber-framed merchant house in Savamala, Belgrade, that now holds an ethnographic collection inside the walls it was actually lived in.

    • Must see
    • Museum
    • Belgrade

Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, Wikidata ·