Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #5 in Belgrade, Serbia
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5.3 km
171 m
Explore Belgrade in Serbia with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.
Activities in BelgradeIndividual Sights in BelgradeSight 1: Dark Gate
The Dark Gate or Karanlik Capusi is one of the many gates at the Belgrade Fortress, on the Sava side of the Lower Town, on the direction of the southern access direction to the Fortress. The gates and the surrounding complex were significantly renovated in the period from 2007 to 2008.
Sight 2: Гробница народних хероја
Tomb of People's Heroes in Belgrade is located underneath the walls of the Belgrade Fortress. It holds the remains of four recipients of the Order of the People's Hero of SFR Yugoslavia.
Wikipedia: Tomb of People's Heroes, Belgrade (EN), Heritage Website
Sight 3: King Gate
The King's Gate is one of the many gates at the Belgrade Fortress, built as a whole with adjacent fortifications in the southwestern inner walls, at the opposite end of the Despot Gate. To the gate is descended by a short staircase that passes by the Roman well. The rest of the city is connected by a bridge. It was built around 1725. Once the shortest connection between the Sava coast and fortified Belgrade, today, an indispensable part of the tourist offer of Belgrade.
Sight 4: Damat Ali Pasha Turbe
Damat Ali-Paša's Turbeh is an Ottoman mausoleum erected in 1784 in Belgrade, Serbia. It held the body of the vizier Silahdar Damat Ali Pasha. The building is situated in the Upper Town of the Belgrade Fortress. Along with Sheik Mustafa's Tomb, this monument represents one of the only remaining examples of Islamic funerary architecture in Belgrade.
Sight 5: Belgrade Fortress
The Belgrade Fortress, consists of the old citadel and Kalemegdan Park on the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, in an urban area of modern Belgrade, Serbia. Located in Belgrade's municipality of Stari Grad, the fortress constitutes the specific historical core of the city. As one of the most important representatives of Belgrade's cultural heritage, it was originally protected right after World War II, among the first officially declared cultural monuments in Serbia. The fortress was declared a Monument of Culture of Exceptional Importance in 1979, and is protected by the Republic of Serbia. It is the most visited tourist attraction in Belgrade, with Skadarlija being the second. Since the admission is free, it is estimated that the total number of visitors is over 2 million yearly.
Sight 6: Kalemegdan
Book Free Tour*The Kalemegdan Park, or simply Kalemegdan is the largest park and the most important historical monument in Belgrade. It is located on a 125-metre-high (410 ft) cliff, at the junction of the River Sava and the Danube.
Sight 7: The Karadjordje Gate
Karadjordje's Gate is one of the many gates at the Belgrade Fortress, built as a whole with neighboring fortifications.
Sight 8: The place of The 1867 handover of the keys of Belgrade
The Keys Handover Memorial in Belgrade, Serbia, marks the spot where on 6 April 1867, the town keys of the several Serbian fortresses were given to Prince Mihailo Obrenović by the Ottoman Turks. That moment was an important step towards Serbian international recognition at the Treaty of Berlin in 1878.
Sight 9: Зграда Реалке
The Realka High School Building is at the corner of 14 Uzun Mirkova Street and Tadeuša Košćuška Street, built between 1835 and 1840 in the style of classicism, most probably after the design of Franc Janke. Its social and historical value lies in the importance it had as the school building which attended and in which taught many important persons of 19th-century Serbia: the teachers Stevan Todorović, Todor Mijušković, Petar Ubavkić, Mihajlo Valtrović, Đorđe Krstić, and students Kosta Glavinić, Milan Kapetanović, Svetozar Jovanović, Milorad Ruvidić, Danilo Vladisavljević, Nikola Nestorović...The building was named after the Belgrade Realka, located within it for a long time. The oldest preserved building in Belgrade was built in European style and is a unique example of classicism.
Wikipedia: Realka High School Building (EN), Heritage Website
Sight 10: Божићева кућа у Београду
The Božić family house is located in Belgrade, at 19. Господар Јевремова street. Today, this house represents a cultural monument of great importance for Serbia.
Sight 11: Музеј позоришне уметности
The Museum of Theatre Art of Serbia follows the historical and contemporary development of theatre art in Serbia. Its main task is to collect, study and exhibit material that is important for the development of theatrical art. It is in possession of rich collections consisting of archival materials and manuscripts, art objects, photographs, stage materials and other objects related to the theater and its development in Serbia. There is also a rich library within the museum.
Sight 12: Кућа књижара Марка Марковића
Marko Markovic's house of bookstores is located in the municipality of Stari Grad, at 45a Gospodar Jovanova Street in Belgrade. It is included in the cultural monument of Serbia.
Wikipedia: Кућа књижара Марка Марковића (SR), Heritage Website
Sight 13: Зграда Класне лутрије
The Class Lottery building is located in the Belgrade municipality of Stari Grad, in Vase Čarapića Street no. 20. It was built in 1899 and represents an important example of academicarchitecture. It received the status of a cultural monument in 2013.
Wikipedia: Зграда Класне лутрије у Београду (SR), Heritage Website
Sight 14: Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
The Sana Palace is a cultural monument in which the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts are located. From 1909 to 1952, the Academy was housed in Brankova Street number 15. This building was unfortunately, demolished in 1963. After that, the academy was moved to Knez Mihailova 35, in a magnificent building in the city center, where he is now.
Sight 15: Ilija M. Kolarac Endowment
Ilija M. Kolarac Endowment, also known as the Kolarac People's University Building, is at 5 Students' Square in the heart of Belgrade. The building is a monument of a great cultural and historical importance and as such was declared as the immovable cultural property.
Wikipedia: Ilija M. Kolarac Endowment (EN), Website, Heritage Website
Sight 16: Ethnographic Museum
The Ethnographic Museum is a museum located in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is one of the oldest museums in the Balkans. The Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade fulfills its mission together with the efforts of various stakeholders in the domain of presentation, revitalization and development of crafts in Serbia.
Wikipedia: Ethnographic Museum, Belgrade (EN), Website, Heritage Website
Sight 17: Дом Аеро Клуба
The building of the Aero Club was built in 1934-1935 for the national aviation institution of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, according to the design of belgrade architect and pilot Vojin Simeonović. It was declared a cultural monument in 2007. It is located on the corner of King Peter and Uzun Mirkova streets.
Sight 18: Кућа трговца Црвенчанина
The house of the merchant Crljenin is located in Belgrade, on the territory of the city municipality of Stari Grad. It was erected in 1887 and represents an immovable cultural property as a cultural monument.
Sight 19: Kralj Petar I Primary School
King Petar I Elementary School is an elementary school in Belgrade, Serbia. The original school was founded in 1718 and is the oldest surviving cultural and educational institution in Serbia, predating the foundations of the Gymnasium of Karlovci (1796), Great School, Matica Srpska (1826) and Society of Serbian Scholarship. It was the first school in Serbia which introduced the teacher notebooks and gym classes and is the location of the first basketball match played in Belgrade.
Wikipedia: King Petar I Elementary School (EN), Website, Heritage Website
Sight 20: Museum of Contemporary Art
The Museum of Contemporary Art is an art museum located in Belgrade, Serbia. It was founded in 1958 as the Modern Gallery, making if one the first museums of this type in the world. It was moved into the current building in the Ušće neighborhood of New Belgrade in 1965. The building is a masterpiece of architects Ivan Antić and Ivanka Raspopović, a short-lived but highly successful partnership, which also produced the 21 October Museum in Šumarice Memorial Park in Kragujevac. The collection contains more than 35,000 works of art.
Wikipedia: Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade (EN), Website, Heritage Website
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