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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
City guide · Serbia
Belgrade
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
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
- Recorded as a best month to visit
- Seasonal closure recorded
- No data recorded for this month
- The current month
- Suggested stay
- 2–3 days
- Getting around
- Tram, bus and on foot
- January: seasonal closure recorded
- February: seasonal closure recorded
- March: seasonal closure recorded
- April: no seasonality data recorded
- May: recorded as a best month to visit
- June: recorded as a best month to visit
- July: no seasonality data recorded
- August: no seasonality data recorded — this month
- September: recorded as a best month to visit
- October: seasonal closure recorded
- November: seasonal closure recorded
- December: seasonal closure recorded
Top things to see
Ranked by importance — sitelinks, pageviews and heritage status, not editor preference.
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Church of Saint Sava 02 1 hourChurch 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
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National Library of Serbia 03 15 minNational 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
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Singidunum 04 30 minSingidunum
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
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Semlin concentration camp 05 45 minSemlin 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
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Pobednik 06 15 minPobednik
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
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Gardoš Tower 07 30 minGardoš 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
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Belgrade Main railway station 08 5 minBelgrade 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
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Princess Ljubica's Residence 09 1 hourPrincess 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
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Belgrade Synagogue 10 20 minBelgrade 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
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Museum of African Art 11 1 hourMuseum 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
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Prince Mihailo Monument 12 15 minPrince 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
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Museum of Vuk and Dositej 13 45 minMuseum 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
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Residence of Prince Miloš 14 45 minResidence 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
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Bajrakli Mosque 15 20 minBajrakli 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
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St. Mark's Church 16 30 minSt. 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
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St. Michael's Cathedral 17 20 minSt. 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
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Ružica Church 18 15 minRužica 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
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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Belgrade 19 5 minRoman 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
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Alexander Nevsky Cathedral 20 20 minAlexander 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
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Railway Museum 21 1 hourRailway 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
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Co-cathedral of Christ the King in Belgrade 22 30 minCo-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
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Hammam of Prince Miloš 23 15 minHammam 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
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Ičko’s House 24 20 minIčko’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
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Monument of Gratitude to France 25 10 minMonument 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
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.
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Stari Grad
- Places
- 571
- Across the district
- 35 min
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Savski Venac
- Places
- 222
- Across the district
- 1 hr 24 min
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New Belgrade
- Places
- 184
- Across the district
- 2 hours
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Vračar
- Places
- 135
- Across the district
- 40 min
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Zemun
- Places
- 127
- Across the district
- 4 hr 56 min
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Palilula
- Places
- 131
- Across the district
- 7 hr 42 min
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Zvezdara
- Places
- 116
- Across the district
- 1 hr 48 min
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Čukarica
- Places
- 95
- Across the district
- 3 hr 6 min
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Voždovac
- Places
- 87
- Across the district
- 4 hr 29 min
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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.