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Kalemegdanfortress: the jewel of the city•Built in 535 AD by

Emperor Justinian I•Statue of Victor welcomes you to the City•Lies at the


confluence of Sava and Danube rivers•Hosted numerous concerts (Amy
Winehouse, The Prodigy, Iron Maiden, Whitesnake)•Numerous day
time/night time tours are available at affordable prices•Easy walk from main
city thoroughfare•The Belgrade Zoo is situated in the fortress•Excellent
Military Museum resides in the fortress•Belgrade as a city has been
occupied 68 times

KnezMihajlovaStatue/Square•The heart of the City•The meeting place


for the people of Belgrade•National Theatre and Museum within sight•Start
of Belgrade’s shopping walkway•Cafés, Bars and restaurants
everywhere•A place to immerse yourself in Belgrade’s culture n the
Vracarprecinct of Belgrade. 30 minswalk from the
KnezMihajlovaStatue•Completed in 1989•Built in Serbo-Byzantine
architecture•One of the largest Orthodox Cathedrals in the world•Capacity
10,800•Church is built on this spot because Ottomans burned St Sava’s
bones here in 1594•The city has other amazing Churches like St Mark’s
next to TasmajdanPark and St Petkain KalemegdanFortress

Skadarlija, the Bohemian quarter The Splavovion the Sava


River•Only a short taxi ride from KnezMihajlovastatue•The people flock
from CBD to the Sava river•This is where the fun starts after midnight.
•Numerous floating restaurants and Night Clubs•All genre of music
available -Heavy Metal, Hip Hop, Pop, Folk and the popular Brass
Bands•Dance ‘til sunrise!•Likely to end up dancing on a table, this is the
norm!

Nature’s delights•See the meanders of the Uvacriver and its stunning


Canyon in South West Serbia•The great Danube river flows through Serbia
and all the major rivers like the Sava, Drina, Tisa and Morava drain into the
Danube•The Devil’s Town rock formation is in south Serbia on the
RadanMountain near Kuršumlija. It features 202 exotic formations
described as earth pyramids or "towers“•The ski fields in Serbia are popular
with excellent skiing at Kopaonik, some 200km south of Belgrade

The Empress’s City, JustinianaPrima, is situated near Leskovac, ~275km


south of Belgrade. It was a Slavic populated Roman city founded in the 6th
Century AD•The Skull Tower in Nis is 3m high and originally contained 952
Serbian skulls. The tower was constructed by the Ottomans after the Battle
of Cegarin 1809•Nis is Serbia’s 3rd largest city ~240km south of Belgrade.
It is the birthplace of Emperor Constantine the Great, the founder of
Constantinople (modern day Istanbul)•The memorial mausoleum, Tekeris,
Loznica, in which 3,500 warriors are buried after the crucial Battle of Cerin
1914. This battle was fought between the Serbian and Austro-Hungarian
armies. It was the first allied victory in WWI.•Serbia is at the cross roads of
East and West, so every town and acre of land has some story of historical
significance

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