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The Last Tree

March 5, 2010
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New city authorities decided, after one study by the Belgrade’s Forestry Faculty to cut down almost 329 (three hundred and twenty nine) plane trees and in their place plant young new trees. See what remained after the trees were cut down.

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Invisible Terazije Monument

August 18, 2009

After B92 ran a story on it, I’ve come to conclusion that this has got to be one of the least visible monuments in the world, which is even more accented by the fact that it’s not exactly small, and that it’s located in a busy street. It’s as if it’s fitted into a street [...]

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Three new murals in Belgrade by Blu, M-City and Valerio Berruti

August 15, 2009

Belgrade just got three new murals by famous artist from this field. Making of murals was made under the patronage of BELEF, Belgrade music summer festival.
First, an abstract city portrait by M-City in Durmitorska street 16:

photo by Vandalog. See more detailed photo’s on M-City’s own website.
Than another one by Blu [artist most famous [...]

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Hens and Stags – Where Are They?

November 8, 2008

Since Belgrade is pretty cheap and generally a party city, where are all those stags and hens roaming the Belgrade streets and passing out drunk on them?

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New Belgrade (Novi Beograd) turns 60

April 10, 2008

Today, many regard New Belgrade as a giant sleeping dorm – with over half a million people living there, it is the biggest municipality in Serbia. In comparison to all these people living here, it has always suffered with cultural offer – not enough cinemas, theaters, restaurants, Belgrade cafes, not enough anything – save buildings.

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Belgrade once upon a time…

January 29, 2008

My grandmother, an old Belgrader, always used to tell me what was Belgrade before the Second World War. It was a city that was following the European trends of life-style and architecture, with notable families raising buildings in order to match the beauty of other notable cities such as Budapest and Prague. The capital of [...]

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The Party City

October 30, 2007

Sunday Times brings us a report on six world party cities of choice: Milan, New York, Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris and – Belgrade. Do you see an intruder on this list?
I see five of them: Milan is the fashion city, Amsterdam is the weed city, Paris is the love city, Berlin is the wall city, and [...]

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Belgrade Mayor Dies

September 28, 2007

As the discussion continues on the hate speech that occured in the Parliament of Serbia, today when I turned on my PC to read the news, a very sad thing has shocked me. The mayor of Belgrade, mr. Nenad Bogdanovic, has died after a long illness.
I think that for all of us that are proud [...]

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Living statue: Rembrandt in Belgrade

June 19, 2007

One of the true signs of tourist city is when you see a number of Living statue people anchored all over the place in the central or pedestrial area.

video by berdukian
In the case of Belgrade, Serbia, seeing this first living statue in city history (as far as i can tell, and maybe in country’s history [...]

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Light Monday Night Read: Belgrade Saturday Night Fever

May 28, 2007

It’s Saturday night and the where to go plans have been made for the whole evening. The night is hot and the air is very humid – normal for this kind of year.
First stop – a small underground gallery located in an student apartment at the fourth floor (ok, in that way it’s not really [...]

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Bruce Sterling in Belgrade, on Beograd

March 23, 2007

Ok, back from the countryside and the idylic past, into the big dirty city, it’s present and what may be it’s future: here’s a great video-guide through Belgrade by Bruce Sterling. For those of you that maybe don’t know who Bruce is, he is the guy that popularized the term cyberpunk in modern sci-fi literature, [...]

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The Belgrade Zoo situation

March 19, 2007

When i was a kid, i liked going to the Belgrade Zoo (especially the snake house, of course). But it has been a long time I’ve been there, and the only pictures i see are the ones from TV and newspapers reporting when something new happens, a new baby animal is born or when they [...]

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Belgrade rock concerts: recent history and near future

March 16, 2007

Since the Japanese reenactors mystery is resolved, let’s get to merrier subjects.
Ok, so the Iron Maiden concert was talk of the town these days: Dragan says he had a great time, despite the sound at Sajam and the organization of the concert was awful. Dinke had a good time but also complains about the [...]

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Belgrade bracing itself for tourist wave

December 11, 2006

Since the commercials are bound to appear on the CNN every day now (update: Serbia ads on CNN ), Belgrade officials thought that it would be good to prepare the city for possible inflation of Western tourists by updating the tourist maps – old, outdated and often full of grammar, spelling and factual errors, [...]

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Bad things in Belgrade

November 5, 2006

Winter is closing in on Belgrade and the blogging community is starting to feel a bit grumpy so i decided to join the band wagon and do a repost of the long lost “Bad things in Belgrade” list. You are free to add to the list or to disagree – i know there are a [...]

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Belgrade Taxi Special!

September 21, 2006

Its a fact that almost every visitor to Belgrade will hail a taxi at some point. In my experience riding the taxi proves to be pretty informative – drivers usually have a wealth of stories they divulge to passengers. If he’s a quiet one (there are only a handful of female taxi drivers although I’m [...]

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New regulations threaten Belgrade nightlife

August 27, 2006

What was the first positive thing you found out when you first heard of Belgrade? For most foreigners it was the nightlife. Due to the fact that the city authorities now consider shortening the working hours of clubs and cafes to 23h this one positive thing may disappear from the list of the good things [...]

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Belgrade Sun

June 17, 2006

When people ask what time of year is best to visit Belgrade the answer is that there are events going on all year round. The peak of Summer is not always the most pleasant time to be in any city and the same is true of Belgrade although Belgrade does have a great advantage in [...]

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Argentina vs Serbia and Montenegro live on the blog today! (Ok, not exactly live, but close enough.)

June 16, 2006

Yes, Serbia is also one of the civilised countries where football is one of the most important things in life; where sport clubs are for some people on the “love list” even higher than mom and dad; where it’s perfectly normal to die or to kill for your favourite club; and when it comes for [...]

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Obvious

June 13, 2006

As I am writing, Togo is leading 1-0 against South Korea …. I am obviously writing about the Football World Cup 2006 that is held in Germany…. Sorry for the interruption…. Korea just scored a goal…. That’s 1-1 and my business is getting better… I put all my money on a win from Korea over [...]

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