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Things to do in Belgrade
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Sightlore has 58 places to explore in Belgrade, and 41 of them come with a 60-second story in 5 languages. Point your camera at a landmark to learn its name and story, and earn points and badges at the places you actually visit.
Belgrade's must-sees
The city's most important places. In the app you see how many you've visited and earn a badge when you've seen them all.
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Stari Dvor
Stari Dvor is the city hall of Belgrade, Serbia, housing the office of the mayor of Belgrade.
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Despot Stefan Tower
The Despot Stefan Tower or Dizdar Tower is a structure in Belgrade, Serbia, built c. 1405, a couple of years after the city became the capital of Serbian Despotate under Despot Stefan Lazarević.
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Knez Mihailova Street
Knez Mihailova Street is the main pedestrian and shopping zone in Belgrade, and is protected by law as one of the oldest and most valuable landmarks of the city.
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Church of Saint Sava
The Church of Saint Sava is a Serbian Orthodox church in Belgrade, capital of Serbia. It is the fourth largest Eastern Orthodox church in the world and one of the largest churches in the world by gross volume.
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Banjica concentration camp
The Banjica concentration camp was a Nazi German concentration camp in the Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia, the military administration of the Third Reich established after the Invasion and occupation of Yugoslavia during World War II. In response to escalating…
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Gardoš Tower
The Gardoš Tower, also known as Millennium Tower or Tower of John Hunyadi is a memorial tower located in Zemun, city of Belgrade, Serbia.
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Belgrade Military Museum
The Military Museum is a museum located in Belgrade, Serbia. Founded in 1878, the museum has over 3,000 ancient and modern items.
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Belgrade Fortress
The Belgrade Fortress is a cultural monument in Belgrade, Serbia in the municipality of Stari Grad.
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Pobednik
Pobednik is a monument in the Upper Town of the Belgrade Fortress, built to commemorate Serbia's victory over the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires during the Balkan Wars and the First World War.
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House of Flowers
The House of Flowers is the resting place of Josip Broz Tito and Jovanka Broz, the President and the First Lady of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Discovery routes in Belgrade
Visit the stops in any order and tap "Check in" at each one; finish the route to earn points and its own badge.
Belgrade: Kalemegdan and the Belgrade Fortress
A two-thousand-year-old fortress where the Sava meets the Danube: the Monument of Gratitude to France, the Military Museum, Damat Ali Pasha's Türbe, the Keys Handover Memorial, the Victor, the Despot Stefan and Nebojša towers, and the Ružica and St Petka churches.
Belgrade: from Kosančićev Venac to Skadarlija
The heart of old Belgrade: Kosančićev Venac, Princess Ljubica's Residence, the Cathedral, the Bajrakli Mosque, Captain Miša's Mansion, Knez Mihailova Street, Republic Square, the National Museum and Theatre, ending in bohemian Skadarlija.
Belgrade: from Terazije to the Church of Saint Sava
Terazije, the Old Palace, the National Assembly, St Mark's Church, Tašmajdan Park, the Nikola Tesla Museum and Saint Sava, one of the largest Orthodox churches in the Balkans.
Belgrade: Zemun, the Sava and Ada Ciganlija
The Gardoš Tower above the Danube and the churches of Zemun, Great War Island, the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Ada Bridge and Ada Ciganlija, Belgrade's beach.
Around Belgrade: House of Flowers, Avala and the Aviation Museum
The House of Flowers where Tito lies and the Museum of Yugoslavia, the Banjica camp, Avala Tower and the Monument to the Unknown Hero, and the Aviation Museum by the airport.
Places to visit
Historic sites
Damat Ali-Paša's Turbeh
Damat Ali-Paša's Türbeh is an Ottoman mausoleum erected in 1784 in Belgrade, Serbia. It holds the body of the Ottoman general and Grand Vizier Silahdar Damat Ali Pasha. The building is situated in the Upper Town of the Belgrade Fortress.
Keys Handover Memorial
The Keys Handover Memorial in Belgrade, Serbia, marks the spot where on 6 April 1867, the town keys of the several Serbian fortresses were given to Prince Mihailo Obrenović by the Ottoman Turks.
Belgrade Fortress
The Belgrade Fortress is a cultural monument in Belgrade, Serbia in the municipality of Stari Grad.
Kosančićev Venac
Kosančićev Venac is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Stari Grad. It has been described as the most valuable and most representative veduta of Belgrade.
Captain Miša's Mansion
The Mansion of Miša Anastasijević is one of the most notable buildings in Belgrade, Serbia. It is the University of Belgrade's administration and governance building.
Knez Mihailova Street
Knez Mihailova Street is the main pedestrian and shopping zone in Belgrade, and is protected by law as one of the oldest and most valuable landmarks of the city.
Republic Square
The Republic Square or the Square of the Republic is one of the central town squares and an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, located in the Stari Grad municipality.
National Theatre in Belgrade
The National Theatre is a theatre located in Belgrade, Serbia. Founded in the latter half of the 19th century, it is located on the Republic Square, at the corner of Vasina and Francuska Street.
Skadarlija
Skadarlija is a vintage street, an urban neighborhood and former municipality of Belgrade, Serbia, located in the Belgrade municipality of Stari Grad (Old Town).
Terazije
Terazije is the central town square and the surrounding neighborhood of Belgrade, Serbia. It is located in the municipality of Stari Grad.
Stari Dvor
Stari Dvor is the city hall of Belgrade, Serbia, housing the office of the mayor of Belgrade.
House of the National Assembly
The House of the National Assembly, formally the House of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, is the seat of the National Assembly of Serbia.
Ada Bridge
The Ada Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge over the Sava River in Belgrade, Serbia. The bridge crosses the tip of Ada Ciganlija island, connecting the municipalities of Čukarica and New Belgrade.
House of Flowers
The House of Flowers is the resting place of Josip Broz Tito and Jovanka Broz, the President and the First Lady of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Belgrade New Cemetery
The New Cemetery is a cemetery complex in Belgrade, Serbia, with a distinct history. It is located in Ruzveltova street in Zvezdara municipality.
Madlenianum Opera and Theatre
Madlenianum Opera and Theatre is an opera house and theatre located in Zemun, Belgrade, Serbia. It is the first privately owned opera and theater company both in Serbia and in Southeast Europe.
Singidunum
Singidunum was an ancient city which later evolved into modern Belgrade, the capital of Serbia.
Museums
Belgrade Military Museum
The Military Museum is a museum located in Belgrade, Serbia. Founded in 1878, the museum has over 3,000 ancient and modern items.
Despot Stefan Tower
The Despot Stefan Tower or Dizdar Tower is a structure in Belgrade, Serbia, built c. 1405, a couple of years after the city became the capital of Serbian Despotate under Despot Stefan Lazarević.
Nebojša Tower
Nebojša Tower is the only surviving mediaeval tower of the Belgrade Fortress. Built in the 15th century, it was the major defensive tower of the fortress for centuries. Later it served as a dungeon and in 2010 it was adapted into a museum.
Princess Ljubica's Residence
The Residence of Princess Ljubica is a palace located in Belgrade, Serbia.
National Museum of Serbia
The National Museum of Serbia is the largest and oldest museum in Belgrade, Serbia.
Nikola Tesla Museum, Belgrade, Serbia
The Nikola Tesla Museum is a science museum located in Belgrade in Serbia. It is dedicated to honoring and displaying the life and work of Nikola Tesla as well as the final resting place for Tesla.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
The Museum of Contemporary Art is an art museum located in Belgrade, Serbia. It was founded in 1958 as the Modern Gallery, making it one of the first museums of this type in the world.
Museum of Yugoslav History
The Museum of Yugoslavia is a public history museum in Belgrade, Serbia dedicated to the history of Yugoslavia and the life of Josip Broz Tito. Tito and his wife Jovanka are buried on the museum's grounds in the House of Flowers.
Banjica concentration camp
The Banjica concentration camp was a Nazi German concentration camp in the Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia, the military administration of the Third Reich established after the Invasion and occupation of Yugoslavia during World War II. In response to escalating…
Museum of Aviation
The Aeronautical Museum, formerly known as the Yugoslav Aviation Museum, is a museum located in Surčin, Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. Founded in 1957, the museum is located adjacent to Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport.
Museum of African Art
Museum in Belgrade devoted to the art and cultures of West Africa, founded in 1977.
Belgrade City Museum
The Belgrade City Museum is a museum located in Belgrade, Serbia.
Railway Museum
The Railway Museum is a museum located in the Savski Venac, Belgrade, the capital of Serbia.
Ethnographic Museum, Belgrade
The Ethnographic Museum is a museum located in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is one of the oldest museums in the Balkans.
Museum of Ivo Andrić
The Museum of Ivo Andrić is a museum located in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. Founded on 10 October 1976, it is dedicated to the Nobel prize winning writer Ivo Andrić. It is operated by the Belgrade City Museum.
Museum of Applied Arts
The Museum of Applied Art is an art museum in Belgrade, Serbia. The museum contains over 37,000 works of applied art, which reflect the development of applied art over a 2,400 year span.
Museum of Vuk and Dositej
The Museum of Vuk and Dositej is one of the most important memorial museums in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia.
Jewish Historical Museum
The Jewish Historical Museum is a museum located in downtown Belgrade, Serbia. Founded in 1948, it is the only Jewish museum in the country.
Places of worship
Ružica Church
Ružica Church is a Serbian Orthodox church located in the Belgrade Fortress, in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. The original church was built in the early 15th century.
Sveta Petka
The Chapel of Saint Petka in Belgrade is a chapel, erected over a sacred spring, and dedicated to Saint Petka.
St. Michael's Cathedral
The Cathedral of Saint Archangel Michael, commonly known as the Cathedral church, is an Eastern Orthodox church located in Belgrade, Serbia.
Bajrakli Mosque
The Bajrakli Mosque is a mosque in Belgrade, Serbia. Built around 1575, it is the only mosque in the city out of the 273 that had existed during the time of the Ottoman Empire's rule of Serbia.
St. Mark's Church
The Church of Saint Mark is an Eastern Orthodox church located in Belgrade, Serbia. The church, dedicated to Mark the Evangelist is situated in the Tašmajdan park, near the House of the National Assembly, in the downtown Belgrade.
Church of Saint Sava
The Church of Saint Sava is a Serbian Orthodox church in Belgrade, capital of Serbia. It is the fourth largest Eastern Orthodox church in the world and one of the largest churches in the world by gross volume.
St. Nicholas ortodox church
The oldest Orthodox church in Zemun, a Baroque building from the 18th century.
Church of the Nativity of the Theotokos
The Church of the Nativity of the Theotokos known also as The Church of the Theotokos is a Serbian Orthodox church located in the center of the Zemun district in Belgrade.
Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Belgrade
The Church of St. Alexander Nevsky is a Serbian Orthodox church in Belgrade, Serbia.
Church of the Ascension
The Church of the Ascension is a Serbian Orthodox church in downtown Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It still uses the bell under which the Hatisheriff of 1830 was announced, by which the Ottoman Empire granted autonomy to Serbia.
Monuments
Monument of Gratitude to France
Monument of Gratitude to France in Belgrade's Veliki Kalemegdan Park was formally unveiled on 11 November 1930, the 12th anniversary of the end of the First World War, in the presence of King Alexander and Queen Maria, the royal government, the delegation of the French…
Pobednik
Pobednik is a monument in the Upper Town of the Belgrade Fortress, built to commemorate Serbia's victory over the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires during the Balkan Wars and the First World War.
Gardoš Tower
The Gardoš Tower, also known as Millennium Tower or Tower of John Hunyadi is a memorial tower located in Zemun, city of Belgrade, Serbia.
Avala Tower
The Avala Tower is a 204.68 m (672 ft) tall television and radio transmission tower located on Mount Avala, in Belgrade, Serbia.
Monument to the Unknown Hero
The Monument to the Unknown Hero is a World War I memorial located atop Mount Avala, south-east of Belgrade, Serbia, and designed by the sculptor Ivan Meštrović.
Tomb of national heroes on Kalemegdan
Tomb of People's Heroes in Belgrade is located underneath the walls of the Belgrade Fortress.
Prince Mihailo Monument
Prince Mihailo Monument is a monument of Prince Mihailo.
Nature
Kalemegdan Park
The Kalemegdan Park, or simply Kalemegdan is the largest park and the most important historical monument in Belgrade. It is located on a 125-metre-high (410 ft) cliff, at the junction of the River Sava and the Danube.
Tašmajdan Park
Tašmajdan Park, colloquially Tašmajdan or simply just Taš, is a public park and the surrounding urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Palilula.
Great War Island
Great War Island is a river island in Belgrade, capital of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers.
Ada Ciganlija
Ada Ciganlija, colloquially shortened to Ada, is a river island that has artificially been turned into a peninsula, located in the Sava River's course through central Belgrade, Serbia.
Belgrade Zoo
Beo zoo vrt, also known as Vrt dobre nade, is a publicly owned zoo in Belgrade, Serbia. Established on 12 July 1936, it situated in the historic Kalemegdan Park.
Jevremovac botanic garden
The Jevremovac Botanical Garden is the botanical garden of the University of Belgrade and also a surrounding urban neighborhood of Belgrade, Serbia.
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