Belgrade is the capital and largest city in Serbia (Europe, but not part of the European Union). It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and the crossroads of the Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. Nearly 1.7 million people live within the administrative limits of ...
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Students from all partner schools supervised by their Geography, History, Religion, Music, Mother Tongue, Civic, Sport, Biology, Art, English and ICT teachers. Responsible: Szkola Podstawowa nr.1 im. Wojska Polskiego w Gniewkowie, Gniewkowo, Poland. http://europeanmultiguide.info/Booklet_result.html; https://www.facebook.com/europeanmultiguide/photos/
This project is done by the group at the Budapest Business Uniersity. you will get information about sustainable development about the area of heroes square (and nearby places).
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Numerous archival funds, from administrative authorities and professional associations to periodicals, indirectly provide information about the development of the tourism industry. The most relevant of them is the documentation of the Chamber of CommerceDepartment for Tourism and the Cityof Belgrade Department for Press and Tourism. While the former Department provides information on tourism for the whole Kingdom of Yugoslavia area, the latterone is engaged in the establishment and development of tourist activities in Belgrade, most often in cooperation with our oldest travel agency Putnik. The opening of the Belgrade Fair in 1937 marked rapid evolvement of event tourism; regular spring and autumn fairs had 80,000 to 250,000 visitors in Belgrade from that period, which had approximately 300,000 inhabitants. Visiting international exhibitions organized by the Association CvijetaZuzorićand the Prince Paul's Museum attracted large number of visitors to Belgrade, and boosted cultural tourism to unsurpassed level,as well asactive international cooperation with all European countries. The Fair and the Museum, Cvijeta Zuzorićand Putnik, are the best representatives of the European and regional cooperation with Belgrade in the1930s. Tourism was taken into consideration by some great men, such as Miloš Crnjanskiand Milan Kašanin,in their own way.
Short-term goal of this type of research of the funds of the Historical Archives of Belgrade is to prepare an exhibition about the development of tourism in Belgrade. Long-term goal is to encourage deliberation on the establishment of the Serbian/Belgrade TourismMuseum.
Presentation made by teachers and students of Hristo Botev School from Vraysa, Bulgaria. This presentation was shown in Gödöllö in November 2010 as part of the Project Meeting for our Comenius Project
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Kiev or Kyiv is a modern and powerful megapolia and also an ancient city. The picturesque capital of Ukraine is located in the center of Europe, is friendly to visitors with an interesting history and heritage.
The oldest olive tree in Europe, which has been bearing fruit for two thousand years, is located in an olive grove, which you pass by when entering Bar, the biggest Montenegrin port. The roots of the city of Bar are far from the sea, on the slopes of Rumija mountain. Old Bar is mentioned as a fortification from the 11th century. Today, the walls of Old Bar are a cultural centre. They hide the relatively well preserved remnants of towers, streets, and ramparts, including the St. George Cathedral and the Church of St. Nicholas from the 13th and 14th century respectively. There is also a palace with the remains of fresco paintings and a Turkish bath…while the remains of a Turkish aqueduct still descend from the top of Mount Rumija towards the town.
Today Bar is a port city, passenger and merchant ships from many countries arrive to, and it is the terminus for trains going to Belgrade and further on to Europe. Near Bar, there is a popular tourist resort Sutomore, with long sandy beaches and numerous hotels and restaurants.
Ulcinj, one of the oldest towns on the Adriatic coast, reveals at first sight its dramatic three thousand year history… It holds the ruins of the ancient Svaæ, the Episcopal town of Zeta from the Middle Ages, which, it is said, had as many churches as days in the year! Ulcinj used to be under the rule of Greeks, Romans, Illyrians, Byzantines, Slavs, Venetians and Turks. This treasury of culture can be entered through two gates, one from the sea and the other from the land. In a dark dungeon of Ulcinj, behind the famous Balsic Tower, the famous Spanish writer Cervantes was jailed, as well as Sabbatai Zevi, an advocate of Talmudic reform.
Ulcinj is a picturesque town, a famous beach resort and rehabilitation centre. Its visitors are mostly attracted by the long sandy beaches. One of the beaches is in the very middle of the town. The next sandy beach, a little further away, is 13 kilometres long, which is why it is called ”Long Beach”. The Long Beach ends at the estuary of the river Bojana, where a sandy, triangular island, one of the most attractive tourist destinations of Montenegro, lies. If you prefer spending your summer holiday dressed as Adam and Eve, Ada Bojana is the right place for you to really connect your body with Mother Nature. Long sandy beaches offer infinite possibilities to escape from everyday urban life, either through sunbathing and swimming, horseback riding on a sandy beach, windsurfing or some other sport.
Students from all partner schools supervised by their Geography, History, Religion, Music, Mother Tongue, Civic, Sport, Biology, Art, English and ICT teachers. Responsible: Szkola Podstawowa nr.1 im. Wojska Polskiego w Gniewkowie, Gniewkowo, Poland. http://europeanmultiguide.info/Booklet_result.html; https://www.facebook.com/europeanmultiguide/photos/
This project is done by the group at the Budapest Business Uniersity. you will get information about sustainable development about the area of heroes square (and nearby places).
TOURISM IN BELGRADE BETWEEN THE TWO WORLD WARSSnežana Lazić
Numerous archival funds, from administrative authorities and professional associations to periodicals, indirectly provide information about the development of the tourism industry. The most relevant of them is the documentation of the Chamber of CommerceDepartment for Tourism and the Cityof Belgrade Department for Press and Tourism. While the former Department provides information on tourism for the whole Kingdom of Yugoslavia area, the latterone is engaged in the establishment and development of tourist activities in Belgrade, most often in cooperation with our oldest travel agency Putnik. The opening of the Belgrade Fair in 1937 marked rapid evolvement of event tourism; regular spring and autumn fairs had 80,000 to 250,000 visitors in Belgrade from that period, which had approximately 300,000 inhabitants. Visiting international exhibitions organized by the Association CvijetaZuzorićand the Prince Paul's Museum attracted large number of visitors to Belgrade, and boosted cultural tourism to unsurpassed level,as well asactive international cooperation with all European countries. The Fair and the Museum, Cvijeta Zuzorićand Putnik, are the best representatives of the European and regional cooperation with Belgrade in the1930s. Tourism was taken into consideration by some great men, such as Miloš Crnjanskiand Milan Kašanin,in their own way.
Short-term goal of this type of research of the funds of the Historical Archives of Belgrade is to prepare an exhibition about the development of tourism in Belgrade. Long-term goal is to encourage deliberation on the establishment of the Serbian/Belgrade TourismMuseum.
Presentation made by teachers and students of Hristo Botev School from Vraysa, Bulgaria. This presentation was shown in Gödöllö in November 2010 as part of the Project Meeting for our Comenius Project
2137ad Merindol Colony Interiors where refugee try to build a seemengly norm...luforfor
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1. S E A R C H
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Belgrade – the capital and largest city in Serbia
12.08.2022
DESIGN, FUN SPOTS AND SIGHTS WITH KILIAN ROLDAN, PHOTO REPORTAGE / CITIES, EUROPE, SERBIA,
TOURISM
Belgrade (Serbian: Београд / Beograd, lit. ’White City’) is the capital and largest city in Serbia (Europe,
but not part of the European Union).
It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and the crossroads of the Pannonian Plain
and the Balkan Peninsula. Nearly 1.7 million people live within the administrative limits of the City of
Belgrade. It is the third largest of all cities on the Danube river.
S E A R C H
2. Being Serbia’s primate city, Belgrade has special administrative status within Serbia. It is the seat of the
central government, administrative bodies, and government ministries, as well as home of almost all of
the largest Serbian companies, media, and scientific institutions. Belgrade is classified as a Beta-Global
City.
Tourism in Serbia is officially recognized as a primary area for economic and social growth. Tourism in
Serbia employs some 75,000 people, about 3% of the country’s workforce. In recent years the number
of tourists is increasing, especially foreign ones for about hundred thousand arrivals more each year. In
2019, tourism generated an income of nearly $1.698 billion, hosting 3 million and seven hundred
thousand tourists, half of whom were foreigners.
3. Chinese tourists were the most numerous foreign visitors, followed by tourists from Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Germany. Major destinations for foreign tourists are Belgrade and
Novi Sad, while domestic tourists prefer spas and mountain resorts. Eco-friendly and sustainable
tourism has also become very popular among domestic tourists, with many young people visiting
various nature reserves and parks in the western and southern part of the country.
Serbia is also known for gastronomic tourism, in both urban and rural areas of the country, with
Belgrade being the central meeting point with over 1800 restaurants, coffee shops, bars and nightlife
venues.
4. Tourism and main attractions
There are almost 300 cultural monuments within the territory of Belgrade, among which 57 are of utmost
and significant importance for the culture of Serbia and Belgrade. Three spatial cultural-historical
ensembles (Knez Mihajlova Street, Topčider and area around Dositej’s Boarding School and the
archaeological finds Belo Brdo in Vinča have been proclaimed the values of extraordinary importance,
and three spatial ensembles (Gročanski bazaar – Bulevar Oslobođenja, Kosančićev Venac, old nucleus
of Zemun) and two remarkable locations (Bojčin’s Forest and Commemorative Cemetery of Belgrade
Liberators 1806) of great importance for the culture. The institutions for protection are responsible for
some twenty archaeological finds throughout the City area.
5. As for the facilities proclaimed natural treasures, the ones of major importance are: Belgrade Fortress,
St. Mark’s Church, Saint Archangel Michael Cathedral Church, Thumb of the Unknown Soldier on
Avala, Monument at the death spot of despot Stefan Lazarević (Crkvine near Mladenovac), Zemun
district, Cemetery of Belgrade Liberators, late Roman Tomb in Brestovik, Log-built church in Vranić,
Birth Home of Voivode Stepa Stepanović, Palace of the Duchess Ljubica, Captain Miša’s Edifice.
6. The beauty of Belgrade squares and public gardens in ten town municipalities is supplemented by 192
monuments and 237 sculptures. About 70 monuments and works of sculpture are located in the
outlaying municipalities.
In the inner area of the City of Belgrade there are over 5,500 streets, 16 plazas and 32 squares. The
oldest streets that have retained their original routes are: Vase Čarapića, Kralja Petra, Cara Dušana,
Jevrejska, Narodnog fronta, Gavrila Principa, and Karađorđeva Streets. The development of the street
network started in 1867, after the Turks had departed, when the regulatory plan of Belgrade was
adopted, which had been drawn up by engineer Emilijan Josimović. In the territories of the 10 City
municipalities, the oldest is the Student Square, and the most famous one is the Republic Square.
The area of the City of Belgrade preserves 37 protected natural treasures, out of which the majority
accounts for long-living and rare trees. Among them is the Quercus robur Melnice in the Sopot
municipality village Nemenikuće, over 230 years old. There also is the group of nine oak trees with the
Jazić’s hut in Obrenovac, about 180 years old, followed by plane tree planted at the time of building of
Palace of the Duke Miloš Obrenović in 1834 and a century-old cedar tree planted by Josif Pančić in
Tolstojeva Street in the municipality of Savski venac.
7. Among the protected natural values there also are Banjica’s Forest, the nestling spot of over 70 species
of birds, “Maša’s Mine” near Summer Stage in Topčider (geological set layer from the upper Cretaous
Age), “Myocene’s sand-shelf” at Tašmajdan and “Sea Neogene’s sandbank” underneath the “Liberator”
Monument on Kalemegdan, representing the remnants of the Mediterranean basin of Pannonian Sea.
Museums
The most prominent museum in Belgrade is the National Museum, founded in 1844 and reconstructed
from 2003 until June 2018. The museum houses a collection of more than 400,000 exhibits (over 5600
paintings and 8400 drawings and prints, including many foreign masters like Bosch, Juan de Flandes,
8. Titian, Tintoretto, Rubens, Van Dyck, Cézanne, G.B. Tiepolo, Renoir, Monet, Lautrec, Matisse, Picasso,
Gauguin, Chagall, Van Gogh, Mondrian etc.) and also the famous Miroslav’s Gospel.
The Ethnographic Museum, established in 1901, contains more than 150,000 items showcasing the
rural and urban culture of the Balkans, particularly the countries of former Yugoslavia.
9. The Museum of Contemporary Art was the first contemporary art museum in Yugoslavia and one of the
first museums of this type in the world. Following its foundation in 1965, has amassed a collection of
more than 8,000 works from art produced across the former Yugoslavia. The museum was closed in
2007, but has since been reopened in 2017 to focus on the modern as well as on the Yugoslav art
scenes.
10. The Military Museum, established in 1878 in Kalemegdan, houses a wide range of more than 25,000
military objects dating from the prehistoric to the medieval to the modern eras. Notable items include
Turkish and oriental arms, national banners, and Yugoslav Partisan regalia.
11. The Museum of Aviation in Belgrade located near Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport has more than 200
aircraft, of which about 50 are on display, and a few of which are the only surviving examples of their
type, such as the Fiat G.50. This museum also displays parts of shot down US and NATO aircraft, such
as the F-117 and F-16.
The Nikola Tesla Museum, founded in 1952, preserves the personal items of Nikola Tesla, the inventor
after whom the Tesla unit was named. It holds around 160,000 original documents and around 5,700
personal other items including his urn.
12. Belgrade also houses the Museum of African Art, founded in 1977, which has a large collection of art
from West Africa.
The Automobile Museum of Bratislav Petkovic (Братислав Петковић) Collection, is the newest in a
series of technical museums in Belgrade. The Museum was founded by the Assembly of the City of
Belgrade and Bratislav Petkovic, the collector and owner of a collection comprising historically valuable
cars and archive material on the domestic history of motoring.
13. With around 95,000 copies of national and international films, the Yugoslav Film Archive is the largest in
the region and among the 10 largest archives in the world. The institution also operates the Museum of
Yugoslav Film Archive, with movie theatre and exhibition hall.
Culture
Belgrade is the centre of culture and art of Serbia. It is Belgrade where the most notable artists create,
where over 11.000 theatrical performances, exhibitions, concerts, performance events, and other artistic
programs are presented and where prominent authors in the world of art are hosted.
14. Belgrade is the centre of 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.
The City of Belgrade is the founder of 30 cultural institutions (12 theatres, 8 institutions for protection of
cultural values, 4 libraries, 6 cultural centers and galleries) and at the same time contribute in the
implementation of schedules and scheduled attractions of institutions and artistic associations.
15. The City of Belgrade is the founder of 11 cultural events (FEST, BITEF, BEMUS, BELEF, International
Competition of Music Youth, Festival of Documentary and Short film, October Salon, Joy of Europe,
Belgrade Book Fair, Sopot Film Festival, Belgrade Jazz Festival), and also the supporter of 69 events in
the field of culture performed in Belgrade.The Secretariat of Culture within the City Administration is in
charge of culture and art.
16. The city was one of the main centres of the Yugoslav new wave in the 1980s: VIS Idoli, Ekatarina Velika,
Šarlo Akrobata and Električni Orgazam were all from Belgrade. Other notable Belgrade rock acts
include Riblja Čorba, Bajaga i Instruktori and Partibrejkers.
17. Today, it is the centre of the Serbian hip hop scene, with acts such as Beogradski Sindikat, Bad Copy,
Škabo, Marčelo, and most of the Bassivity Music stable hailing from or living in the city.
18. Shopping
There are more then 1000 stores in Belgrade and more then 200 brands of clothes. Shopping in
Belgrade offers interesting local and many attractive foreign brands. You can find alternative stile of
brands, everything you need for good techno party in Belgrade.
19. Most luxury malls are Galerija Mall, Rajiceva Mall and the Usce Sopping Mall.
Winter sales start from October and last till late March. In the late September and early October, you will
find Summer Sales all over the city. Same when it comes to the end of the winter. From the late
February you will find spring editions, and start of the sales in Belgrade Shopping malls and stores.
Transport
Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport or Belgrade Airport (IATA: BEG, ICAO: LYBE) is an international airport
serving Belgrade and Serbia. It is the largest and busiest airport in Serbia, situated 18 km west of
downtown Belgrade near the suburb of Surčin. It is operated by French conglomerate Vinci Airports and
it is named after Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla (1856–1943).
20. The flag carrier and largest airline of Serbia, Air Serbia, uses Belgrade Nikola Tesla as their hub. It is
also one of the operating bases for low-cost airline Wizz Air. The air taxi services Air Pink, Eagle
Express and Prince Aviation also call the airport their home.
Airport two terminals have a combined area of 33,000 sqm, with Terminal 2 being larger of the two,
adjacent to one another terminals are connected through a hallway. The airport has 66 check-in
counters and 27 gates (of which 16 are equipped with jetways).