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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
Every city catalogued in this country so far, ranked by how much there is to see.
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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.
Храм Светог Саве
The Church of Saint Sava stands where an Ottoman general burned a saint's bones, and it took eighty-five years to build.
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.
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.
Музеј Југославије
Museum of Yugoslav History is the former name of a Dedinje complex now officially called the Museum of Yugoslavia.
Кула Гардош
Gardoš Tower, also called the Millennium Tower and Kula Sibinjanin Janka, rises 36 metres above Gardoš Hill in Zemun.
Музеј савремене уметности
The Museum of Contemporary Art occupies a distinctive faceted building in Ušće park, New Belgrade, at the confluence of the Sava and Danube.
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.
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.
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.
Краљевски двор
The Royal Palace was built between 1912 and 1929 in Dedinje for King Alexander I Karađorđević, its construction interrupted by the Balkan Wars and the First World War and finished only after Alexander proclaimed the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1929.
Кућа цвећа
The House of Flowers is Tito's grave, and it was built as a greenhouse.
Рушевине Народне библиотеке из нацистичког бомбардовања 1941.
The ruins on Kosančićev Venac are the remains of the building that housed the National Library of Serbia from 1925. The house was built in the second half of the 19th century.
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.
Сабирни логор Сајмиште
Staro Sajmište was a trade fair before it was a camp, and people live on the site now.
Бели двор
Beli dvor, the White Palace, was built between 1934 and 1937 in Dedinje as the private residence of Prince Regent Paul of Yugoslavia, who ruled as regent for the young King Peter II from 1934 to 1941.
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)…
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…
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.
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.
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.
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".
