Serbia in Pictures

Posted on 16. Feb, 2010 by in Photos

So wow, I guess my post on Belgrade last week was kind of dark. Everything I wrote was genuine, but there were also a lot of things I saw in Serbia that were downright charming.  Here are some of the neat things I saw there:

The Cathedral of St. Sava. The Belgradians have been slowly building this amazing church for literally a hundred years. Construction began in 1905 and was waylayed by World War 1, World War 2 and the Balkan Wars. Although it looks complete on the outside, the inside is still unfinished:

Still needs a bit of work…

Old men playing Chess at Kalemegdan Park. I think they exist in almost every city don’t they?

Kalemegdan park is the major city park of Belgrade. The grounds are in and around the ruins of a fortress, parts of which date back to the fourth and fifth century AD. In the time since then it was built, attacked and re-built again and again. It’s been invaded something like 42 times. Now you can wander freely among the ruins along with joggers and sexy Serbian men playing frisbee.

Another famous fortress, Petrovaradin Fortress sits on the Danube in the province of Vojvodina. If you can beleive it, the area has been fortified since 3000 BC. The current buildings date from the late 17th century. It’s most famous for being the site of the annual EXIT festival, a huge alternative music festival.

A couple shots of the striking art-nouveau architecture of downtown Novi Sad. The second biggest city in the country, Novi Sad is the cultural capital of Serbia.

No Yugoslavia clip show would be complete without a snapshot of a Yugo, or a Yugo billboard at least. And yes, I did see these cute little cars everywhere.

I had to look a little harder to find the charm in Serbia; it’s not as obvious as some of the other countries I visited in the Balkan. What Serbia has to offer is a very, long, very interesting history, carefully loved and preserved and well worth seeing for yourself.

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15 Responses to “Serbia in Pictures”

  1. Gray

    16. Feb, 2010

    These are beautiful photos. What a nice contrast to last week’s post!
    .-= Gray´s last blog ..Welcome to San Juan =-.

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    • Steph

      16. Feb, 2010

      Thanks Gray! Once I started looking through my photos I realized that Serbia was pretty pleasant after all.

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  2. floreta

    17. Feb, 2010

    beautiful! i love living vicariously through pictures :D

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  3. jim

    17. Feb, 2010

    Serbia has never been on my list of go to places (not for any particular reason, just never thought of it) but after these pictures I’m surprised none of my friends had told me about it before! Thanks for sharing these.

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    • Steph

      17. Feb, 2010

      It’s one of those lesser known spots I think. All of the Balkans really, despite my best efforts!

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  4. Garrett

    20. Feb, 2010

    Great stuff! I’m a fan of the Yugo pics. :)

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    • Steph

      21. Feb, 2010

      There were Yugos everywhere in the Balkans! Trusty little cars it would seem.

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      • Kristijan

        25. Nov, 2010

        Would that mean that Croatia is no longer on the Balkans, since I haven’t seen one this summer? :-)
        BTW, did you travel to Croatia, would like to read those posts?

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  5. Deolive

    26. May, 2010

    Hi Steph,
    greetings from Serbia!
    Have you ever seen Smederevo Fortress, the largest medieval fortress in Europe? It is in Smederevo, 50 km south-east from Belgrade, built in 15th century by Serbian Despot Duradj.

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    • Steph

      26. May, 2010

      Thanks! I have not. Need to put that on the list for my next go-round!

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  6. Kristijan

    25. Nov, 2010

    I just now came across your post and thought to translate for you Yugo45 ad;

    “Yugo45, car of the year”
    - probably thinking about the year 1945 :-)

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  7. lozenborg

    26. Nov, 2010

    Serbia is poor country, war, bombs…40% of economy was destroyed under air atack 1999, 1,5 milion refugees(Kosovo,Croatia, Bosnia)……GDP is about 11000 per capital. Croatian is 16000 and American(USA) 48500 USD per capital. Sorry for english…….

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  8. MarioSerbia

    01. Dec, 2010

    @lozenborg I live in Serbia and country is not poor at all…..it was poor during 90′ and wars but today i don’t think so….poverty in Serbia is only 7% one of lowest in Europe…for example Croatia have 17%,USA 12%…….our economy is repairing every year……

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  9. emobren

    31. Dec, 2010

    Just visit Serbia.This photos is only small part what you can see.EXPLORE!! YOU’RE WELCOME.
    P.S.Food is delicious

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  10. Srbin

    13. Mar, 2011

    Smederevo and also Golubac:
    http://www.mojaladja.com/slike/83.jpg

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