Belgrade, Serbia

Avala, Belgrade’s city hill, covered in monuments

Published: September 19, 2008

If after the polluted Belgrade air you feel like going to a nature resort, the Avala hill is certainly the best choice.
Take the tramway 9, 10, or 14 or the trolleybus 40 or 41 to Banjica,
where you may take one of many city busses that reach the foot of the
Avala hill in a 20-minutes-trip. On several footpaths you may walk
through the forest in about one hour to the top of the hill. There, you
find the former TV transmitter (that was crushed in the 1999 war), an
old-style hotel, built in 1924, (with communist-style bad service in
the hotel restaurant). On the way, you may cross natural springs. Don’t
miss the monument in the south-east of the peak that was erected after
a Soviet delegation died in a airplane crash on the Avala in 1964. And
on the very top, you will reach a huge monument for the Unknown Soldier
in WWI.

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