Capital of Serbia

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Ada Ciganlija Belgrade Public Beach

Speak about astounding architecture and beauty - this Church is so outstandingly visible from every corner of Belgrade and is marvelous. Every day, its grandiose bell towers with almost 50 bells announce noon and I was lucky enough to hear the bells ring and echo so rhythmically and beautiful to the ears. The interiors are so beautifully done and maintained. A place of peace and serenity. Outside this Church, lots of people were lighting candles and praying. One of the most beautiful and attractive edifice of Serbia, it has people all over visit it. Must visit when in Belgrade. Delicious local food#mapletrees

Belgrade is seriously old, and it’s seen a few things. Belgrade is the largest city in Serbia and its capital, but the “white city” has taken many forms since the beginnings of its settlement between 50,000 and 20,000 years ago. Thanks to its strategic location at the confluence of the Saba and Danube rivers, and intersection of Western and Oriental Europe, Belgrade has been fought over in 115 wars and razed to the ground 44 times, including by Attila the Hun, who had his way with the area in A.D. 442. In 1521 Belgrade was conquered by the Ottomans, and there followed a period of tug-of war between the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Empires, who took turns destroying the city, each leaving behind a cosmopolitan legacy. Belgrade was also the capital of Yugoslavia from its inception as a kingdom in 1918, throughout the post World War II socialist era, right up until Serbia was the last man standing in 2006. Serbs are notorious for their nationalism, but many Belgraders still express a ‘yugonostalgic’ longing for the multiculturalism and porous borders of the socialist era, with their shared origins and languages (Serbian, Croatian, and Bosnian are more or less reciprocal, although Serbian is the only one to use the Cyrillic alphabet).