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Belgrade

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Photograph · Radosław Botev · CC BY 3.0 pl

Belgrade is 389.12 km² holding 1,197,714 people, and it stands on the point where the Sava runs into the Danube. That confluence is why the city exists and why it has been fought over so relentlessly: it has been battled over in 115 wars and razed 44 times. The name Beograd means white city. The administrative area holds 1,682,720 people across 3,234.96 km² in 17 municipalities. The part a visitor uses is a fraction of that — the old town on the ridge above the rivers, and the streets running down from it.

Practical information
Language spoken
Serbian
Written in both Cyrillic and Latin; English is understood in tourist districts
Dialling code
+381 11
Belgrade landlines; drop the leading 0 of 011 when calling from abroad
Currency
Serbian dinar (RSD)
Euros are not accepted; cards are widely taken in Belgrade
Emergency number
112
One number across the country; 194 reaches an ambulance directly
Plug type
Type C and F · 230 V
Standard European two-pin
Tap water
Not recorded
No verified national source in the dataset

Planning a visit

Suggested stay
2–3 days
Getting around
Tram, bus and on foot
  1. January: seasonal closure recorded
  2. February: seasonal closure recorded
  3. March: seasonal closure recorded
  4. April: no seasonality data recorded
  5. May: recorded as a best month to visit
  6. June: recorded as a best month to visit
  7. July: no seasonality data recorded
  8. August: no seasonality data recorded — this month
  9. September: recorded as a best month to visit
  10. October: seasonal closure recorded
  11. November: seasonal closure recorded
  12. December: seasonal closure recorded

Top things to see

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Historic monuments 508 Museums 11 Places of worship 140 Nature sites 156 Viewpoints 31 Food and drink 26 Markets and shopping 129 Entertainment 0 Nightlife 0 Family attractions 0 Art and culture 258 Activities 0

Typical visit duration

Up to 1 hour 1259 1 to 2 hours 468 Half a day or more 5

Interests

History 659 Art 398 Museums 269 Nature 187 Sea and beach 156 Viewpoints 31
  1. Nikola Tesla Museum
    01 1 hour

    Nikola Tesla Museum

    The Nikola Tesla Museum holds Tesla's papers and Tesla's ashes, in a villa on a residential street.

    • Must see
    • Museum
    • Vračar
  2. Church of Saint Sava
    02 1 hour

    Church of Saint Sava

    The Church of Saint Sava stands where an Ottoman general burned a saint's bones, and it took eighty-five years to build.

    • Must see
    • Place of worship
    • Vračar
  3. National Library of Serbia
    03 15 min

    National Library of Serbia

    The National Library of Serbia is the country's central legal-deposit library, housed since 1973 in a purpose-built structure on the Vračar plateau, next to the Temple of Saint Sava.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Stari Grad
  4. Singidunum
    04 30 min

    Singidunum

    Singidunum is the Roman name for the fortified settlement that stood on the ridge now occupied by Belgrade Fortress, at the point where the Sava River meets the Danube.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Stari Grad
  5. Semlin concentration camp
    05 45 min

    Semlin concentration camp

    Staro Sajmište was a trade fair before it was a camp, and people live on the site now.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • New Belgrade
  6. Kalemegdan Park
    06 1 hour

    Kalemegdan Park

    Kalemegdan Park is the 53-hectare public park that wraps around Belgrade Fortress on a 125-metre-high cliff at the junction of the Sava and Danube rivers.

    • Must see
    • Nature site
    • Stari Grad
  7. Pobednik
    07 15 min

    Pobednik

    Pobednik, meaning The Victor, is a bronze statue by the Croatian sculptor Ivan Meštrović standing on the ramparts of Belgrade Fortress at the point where the Sava and Danube rivers meet.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Stari Grad
  8. Gardoš Tower
    08 30 min

    Gardoš Tower

    The Gardoš Tower was built by Hungary to mark a thousand years in the Pannonian plain, and it stands on the edge of what was then the empire.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Zemun
  9. Belgrade Main railway station
    09 5 min

    Belgrade Main railway station

    Belgrade Main railway station is a disused 19th-century station building on Savski trg, built between 1882 and 1885 to a design begun by the Austrian architect Wilhelm von Flattich and completed by Dragiša Milutinović.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Savski Venac
  10. Princess Ljubica's Residence
    10 1 hour

    Princess Ljubica's Residence

    Princess Ljubica's Residence is an 1830 town house in Belgrade's Stari Grad district, built for Prince Miloš Obrenović as a home for his wife, Princess Ljubica, and their sons Milan and Mihailo.

    • Must see
    • Museum
    • Stari Grad
  11. Belgrade Synagogue
    11 20 min

    Belgrade Synagogue

    The Belgrade Synagogue, known as Sukkat Shalom, is the only functioning synagogue in Serbia today and the religious centre of Belgrade's Ashkenazi Jewish community.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Stari Grad
  12. Museum of African Art
    12 1 hour

    Museum of African Art

    A single-donor museum in a quiet villa street, the Museum of African Art holds nothing acquired by an institution — the entire founding collection came from Zdravko Pečar and Veda Zagorac, a Yugoslav diplomat and his wife who spent years…

    • Must see
    • Museum
    • Savski Venac
  13. National Theatre in Belgrade
    13 45 min

    National Theatre in Belgrade

    The National Theatre opened on Republic Square in 1868, modelled by the architect Aleksandar Bugarski on Milan's La Scala and Moscow's Bolshoi rather than on a local precedent, at a time when Serbia was asserting itself as a modern European…

    • Must see
    • Art and culture venue
    • Stari Grad
  14. Topčider
    14 1 hour

    Topčider

    Topčider is a forest park in Belgrade built around the country residence of Prince Miloš Obrenović, the ruler who founded modern Serbia.

    • Must see
    • Nature site
    • Savski Venac
  15. Tašmajdan Park
    15 45 min

    Tašmajdan Park

    Tašmajdan is a former stone quarry turned public park in central Belgrade — the name itself comes from the Turkish taš, stone, and Serbian majdan, quarry, and describes exactly what the ground was before it became green space.

    • Must see
    • Nature site
    • Palilula
  16. Prince Mihailo Monument
    16 15 min

    Prince Mihailo Monument

    The Monument to Prince Mihailo is a bronze equestrian statue standing at the centre of Republic Square, Belgrade's main square.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Stari Grad
  17. Jevremovac botanic garden
    17 1 hour

    Jevremovac botanic garden

    Jevremovac is a university botanic garden in the Stari Grad municipality of Belgrade, run by the University of Belgrade's School of Biology.

    • Must see
    • Nature site
    • Stari Grad
  18. Museum of Vuk and Dositej
    18 45 min

    Museum of Vuk and Dositej

    The Museum of Vuk and Dositej is a single-house museum in the Stari Grad district of Belgrade dedicated to two figures of the Serbian Enlightenment: Dositej Obradović (1742–1811), writer and Serbia's first Minister of Education, and Vuk Stefanović Karadžić (1787–1864)…

    • Must see
    • Museum
    • Stari Grad
  19. Residence of Prince Miloš
    19 45 min

    Residence of Prince Miloš

    The Residence of Prince Miloš was built between 1830 and 1834 for Miloš Obrenović, the prince who led Serbia's second uprising against Ottoman rule and secured its autonomy, and it is one of the few surviving buildings from that transitional…

    • Must see
    • Museum
    • Savski Venac
  20. Bajrakli Mosque
    20 20 min

    Bajrakli Mosque

    The Bajrakli Mosque is the only mosque left in Belgrade, out of 273 that stood here under Ottoman rule.

    • Must see
    • Place of worship
    • Stari Grad
  21. St. Mark's Church
    21 30 min

    St. Mark's Church

    St. Mark's Church is a Serbian Orthodox church on Tašmajdan hill in central Belgrade, built between 1931 and 1940 to designs by the brothers Petar and Branko Krstić, both professors at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Architecture.

    • Must see
    • Place of worship
    • Palilula
  22. St. Michael's Cathedral
    22 20 min

    St. Michael's Cathedral

    St. Michael's Cathedral is the seat of the Serbian Orthodox Metropolitanate of Belgrade, built between 1837 and 1845 on the site of an earlier church destroyed in the Ottoman era.

    • Must see
    • Place of worship
    • Stari Grad
  23. Ružica Church
    23 15 min

    Ružica Church

    Ružica Church is a small Serbian Orthodox church inside Belgrade Fortress, on the path down from the Upper Town to the Lower Town.

    • Must see
    • Place of worship
    • Stari Grad
  24. Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Belgrade
    24 5 min

    Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Belgrade

    This building on Svetozara Markovića street is the Episcopal Palace, seat of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Belgrade — the Roman Catholic archdiocese covering Central Serbia, with the Diocese of Subotica and the Diocese of Zrenjanin as its suffragans.

    • Must see
    • Place of worship
    • Vračar
  25. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral
    25 20 min

    Alexander Nevsky Cathedral

    The Church of St. Alexander Nevsky is a Serbian Orthodox parish church in Belgrade's Dorćol neighborhood, standing on Cara Dušana Street in the Stari Grad municipality.

    • Must see
    • Place of worship
    • Stari Grad
  26. Railway Museum
    26 1 hour

    Railway Museum

    The Railway Museum in Savski Venac is the national collection of Serbian and former Yugoslav railway history, founded on 1 February 1950. Its first exhibition, in 1953, was titled "Through the History of Yugoslav Railways".

    • Must see
    • Museum
    • Savski Venac
  27. Co-cathedral of Christ the King in Belgrade
    27 30 min

    Co-cathedral of Christ the King in Belgrade

    The Co-cathedral of Christ the King on Krunska street is the oldest Catholic place of worship in Belgrade, a city where the Catholic minority has always shared ground with an Orthodox majority.

    • Must see
    • Place of worship
    • Vračar
  28. Hammam of Prince Miloš
    28 15 min

    Hammam of Prince Miloš

    The Hammam of Prince Miloš is a Turkish-style bathhouse built in 1836-37, and it is currently a bath nobody can bathe in: OpenStreetMap's own record of the site, last checked 27 April 2026, lists its opening hours as switched off.

    • Must see
    • Museum
    • Savski Venac
  29. Ičko’s House
    29 20 min

    Ičko’s House

    Ičko's House at 18 Bežanijska street in Zemun is one of the oldest surviving town houses in the Belgrade area, built in 1793 in a plain Classical style — and it takes its name from a diplomat who hid there…

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Zemun
  30. Monument of Gratitude to France
    30 10 min

    Monument of Gratitude to France

    Twenty thousand people filled Kalemegdan Park on 11 November 1930 to watch King Alexander I, Queen Maria, Prince Paul and Princess Olga unveil a bronze woman striding forward with one arm raised — Belgrade's Monument of Gratitude to France, dedicated…

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Stari Grad
  31. Tomb of national heroes on Kalemegdan
    31 10 min

    Tomb of national heroes on Kalemegdan

    The Tomb of the People's Heroes sits under the walls of Belgrade Fortress, and it was not filled all at once: four communist figures were buried there one at a time over nine years, from 1948 to 1957, as each…

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Stari Grad
  32. Historical Museum of Serbia
    32 1 hour

    Historical Museum of Serbia

    The Historical Museum of Serbia (Istorijski muzej Srbije) was established in 1963 as the national institution charged with collecting material on Serbian history from the medieval state through the twentieth century, distinct from the archaeology-focused National Museum next to Republic…

    • Must see
    • Museum
    • Stari Grad
  33. Jevrem Grujić's House
    33 10 min

    Jevrem Grujić's House

    The house known today as Jevrem Grujic's House is one of the oldest preserved civic houses in Belgrade's old town, built in the early decades of the nineteenth century, in the years after the Serbian uprisings when the town's Ottoman-era…

    • Must see
    • Museum
    • Stari Grad
  34. Jewish Historical Museum
    34 1 hour

    Jewish Historical Museum

    The Jewish Historical Museum (Jevrejski istorijski muzej) opened in 1948, founded by the historian Lavoslav Kadelburg and colleagues under the Federation of Jewish Communities of Yugoslavia, and it remains housed inside the federation's own building on Kralja Petra street in…

    • Must see
    • Museum
    • Stari Grad
  35. Manak's House
    35 45 min

    Manak's House

    Manak House is a timber-framed merchant house in Savamala, Belgrade, that now holds an ethnographic collection inside the walls it was actually lived in.

    • Must see
    • Museum
    • Savski Venac
  36. Čukur Fountain
    36 5 min

    Čukur Fountain

    The Čukur Fountain is a monument in Dobračina Street, Dorćol, marking the spot where a killing in 1862 set off a night of street fighting and, two days later, an Ottoman bombardment of Belgrade.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Stari Grad
  38. Zindan Gate
    38 45 min

    Zindan Gate

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Stari Grad
  40. Lido
    40 1 hour

    Lido

    • Must see
    • Nature site
    • Zemun

Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, Wikidata ·

Where to base yourself

District boundaries come from OSM administrative relations, so a district page holds exactly the places inside it — plus, for the islands and the coast, the nearest district by proximity.

  • Stari Grad

    Places
    571
    Across the district
    35 min

  • Savski Venac

    Places
    222
    Across the district
    1 hr 24 min

  • New Belgrade

    Places
    184
    Across the district
    2 hours

  • Vračar

    Places
    135
    Across the district
    40 min

  • Zemun

    Places
    127
    Across the district
    4 hr 56 min

  • Palilula

    Places
    131
    Across the district
    7 hr 42 min

  • Zvezdara

    Places
    116
    Across the district
    1 hr 48 min

  • Čukarica

    Places
    95
    Across the district
    3 hr 6 min

  • Voždovac

    Places
    87
    Across the district
    4 hr 29 min

  • Rakovica

    Places
    60
    Across the district
    1 hr 55 min

How the city is laid out

Two Belgrades, split by the Sava.

Old Belgrade sits on the ridge on the right bank, above the confluence. The fortress is at the point; Stari Grad, the old town, runs back from it; Vračar rises behind that with the Church of Saint Sava on top; Dorćol drops north towards the Danube and Savamala south towards the Sava.

New Belgrade is on the left bank of the Sava, built from 1948 onward on empty ground to demonstrate that Yugoslavia was at the forefront of progress. It is towers and boulevards on a grid and it is a different city.

Zemun, further up the Danube on the left bank, was a separate town under Austria-Hungary until the twentieth century and still reads as one — low houses, a hill with a tower, and the border of an empire running through it.

Checked 2026-08-23

Getting around

Trams, buses, trolleybuses and walking. There is no metro.

A metro has been discussed for decades and is not in operation; anyone reading about the Belgrade metro is reading about a construction programme, not a way to get across the city today.

The old town is compact and the walk from the fortress to the Church of Saint Sava takes about half an hour, all of it through the parts a visitor came for. New Belgrade and Zemun need transport.

Taxis are cheap by western European standards and are the usual way across the river at night.

Checked 2026-08-23

Common questions

How many days does Belgrade need?

Two to three. Two cover the fortress, Kalemegdan, the old town and the Church of Saint Sava. A third adds Zemun on the Danube and a look at New Belgrade.

Is there a metro?

No. Belgrade runs trams, buses and trolleybuses, and a metro has been discussed for decades without entering service. The old town is walkable and taxis are cheap.

What does Beograd mean?

White city. The name is literal.

Why is the city so scarred?

It stands where the Sava meets the Danube, which made it the frontier between empires. It has been fought over in 115 wars and razed 44 times.

What is the difference between Old and New Belgrade?

The Sava. Old Belgrade is the ridge above the confluence with the fortress at its point. New Belgrade is on the left bank, built from 1948 on empty ground as a demonstration of Yugoslav modernity.

Which districts should I stay in?

Stari Grad for the old town, Vračar behind it for a quieter residential base, Dorćol towards the Danube and Savamala on the Sava for the nightlife. Zemun is a separate town in feel and is further out.

Turn this list into a plan

Set your days, your pace and the hours you actually want to be out. The planner works around closing days and travel time, and leaves room to eat.

Plan Belgrade