Belgrade
Belgrade hosts many annual international cultural events, including the Film Festival, Theatre Festival, Summer Festival, BEMUS, Belgrade Early Music Festival, Book Fair, Eurovision Song Contest 2008, and the Beer Fest. The Nobel Prize winning author Ivo Andrić wrote his most famous work, The Bridge on the Drina, in Belgrade. Other prominent Belgrade authors include Branislav Nušić, Miloš Crnjanski, Borislav Pekić, Milorad Pavić and Meša Selimović. The most internationally prominent artists from Belgrade are Marina Abramović and Milovan Destil Marković.
Belgrade is the financial centre of Serbia and Southeast Europe, with a total of 17 million square metres (180 million square feet) of office space. It is also home to the country's Central Bank. Currently, over 700,000 people are employed in 120,286 companies, 60,000 enterprises and 50,000 shops. The City of Belgrade itself owns 267,147 square metres (2,875,550 square feet) of rentable office space.
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What could €20 buy you in Serbia?
10 hours from Topcider [Топчидер] in Serbia [Србија] to Podgorica [Подгорица] in Montenegro [Црна Гора] – passing through 254 tunnels and 435 bridges… we thought we would get bored at some point but we stayed glued to the window and went “wha! whaa!! whaaa!!! whaaaa!!!! whaaaaa!!!!! whaaaaaa!!!!!! WHA! WHAA!! WHAAA!!! WHAAAA!!!! – louder with each
Moving on from the bombed-buildings of Belgrade
Apart from the Nikola Tesla Museum, the only other thing I heard about Belgrade before arriving was the remains of NATO-bombed buildings. Nothing much has been done. A friend of friend Personally, I think a lot has been done. At least, the thought process of keeping them around. These buildings could easily have been torn
Floating on the Danube in Belgrade
In Serbian, Belgrade [Београд] literally means White [Бео] City [град]. It is the capital of Serbia [Србија], located on the confluence of two rivers – Sava [Сава] that flows from Slovenia and Danube that originates from Germany. ArkaBarka – literally Ark Barge in Serbian – was a good change of scenery from our european home
In search of Nikola Tesla in Belgrade
We went straight from the Nikola Tesla Airport to the Nikola Tesla Boulevard with a ride app called Bolt (former Taxify) -it was the most convenient means of transport except during the peak hours in the city. We were dropped on the side of the boulevard as there were no through roads and had to
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