Belgrade - the White Fortress



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Museums:
National Museum of Serbia: Founded in 1844, this museum’s collection has more than 400,000 items including works of Titian, Caravaggio, Renoir, Monet, Degas, Vincent van Gogh, Rubens, Rembrandt, Picasso, Cezanne, Paja Jovanovic, Uros Predic, Durer, and Gustav Klimt among many other greats.

Museum of Contemporary Art: It has an astounding collection of around 8,540 works of art produced in Yugoslavia since 1900. Another great place for art-lovers.

The Military Museum: It houses parts of an F-117 stealth aircraft shot down by Yugoslav forces, in addition to a wide range of over 25,000 military exhibits dating as far back as to the Roman period. It attracts many tourists.

Museum of Yugoslav Aviation: the museum has more than 200 aircrafts, of which about 50 are on display. A few of the aircrafts here are the only surviving examples of their type, such as the Fiat G50. This museum also displays parts of shot down US and NATO aircrafts.

The Ethnographic Museum: It was established in 1901 and contains more than 150,000 items showcasing the rural and urban culture of the Balkans.

Museum of African Art: Founded in the days of socialist solidarity with the undeveloped nations of the Third World, this is one of the more unusual museums in the city.

Transport:
Belgrade’s Nikola Tesla International Airport is about 12 km from the city center. Alternatively you could also reach here by train. The Central Train station is located within the city and most national and international trains stop here. The central bus station is adjacent to the train station and it too, serves a number of national and as well as international destinations.

Undoubtedly the most relaxing and scenic way to travel is on the Danube. Passenger ships enable you to reach every place along the river seeing many fascinating attractions along it. It is a slow and rather expensive way of traveling though.

Within the city, Belgrade has buses, trolleybuses and trams. It also has two metro stations. Taxis are cheap and safe in Belgrade. However, make sure that you ride only in licensed cabs, or you may end up paying too much.

Food:
This is not a good place for vegetarians, since most of the Belgrade cuisine has a lot of meat in their meals, and every meal is accompanied by bread. Most Serbian restaurants offer traditional dishes like rostilj (a large meat meal), pljeskavica (the Serbian hamburger), and palacinke (Serbian crepe). You could also try out some Turkish delicacies such as baklava and tulumba.

Serbs love beer and you can find a large amount of domestic and imported beer on the market. Belgrade is famous for its Beer Festival held annually in September. Try some local spirits like Rakija (Serbian brandy).

Culture:
Belgrade is the cultural center of Serbia and home to the highest state and national institutions of culture and art—Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Library of Serbia, the National Museum, the National Theatre and the University of Arts.

Belgrade has founded 34 cultural institutions and hosts many annual cultural events, including FEST (Belgrade Film Festival), BITEF (Belgrade Theatre Festival), BELEF (Belgrade Summer Festival), BEMUS (Belgrade Music Festival), Belgrade Book Fair, and the Belgrade Beer Festival.

The city is the main centre of a musical style known as turbofolk. Today, it is the centre of the Serbian hip hop scene, and the Bassivity Music style.

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