"Once located at the border between the Turkish and Austro-Hungarian empires, it combines Central European with more Oriental influences, and adds a style and spirit of its own. I can only put it one way: Belgrade is cool." - Bootsnall: Serbia Travel Guide
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“There are places in Belgrade where picket fences still exist,
with weeds of a strong and bitter smell growing right next to them… a
turtledove is cooing upon the wild pear branch and the lost field mouse
is running in terror or hunger… All these things still exist, in a
street with no name and a house with no number… Stuck like thistle to
the pants of the metropolis, travelling across a time and space they do
not belong to.”
Dušan Radović, poet and writer
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“This grand city seems to have always been like this: torn and split, as if it never exists but is perpetually being created, built upon and recovered. On one side it waxes and grows, on the other it wanes and deteriorates. Ever in motion and rustle, never calm and never knowing tranquility or quiet. The city upon two rivers, on the grand clearing, bound by the winds.”
Ivo Andrić, writer and Nobel Prize winner
"BELGRADE HAS KIND OF A DUBLINESQUE, DEAR-DIRTY CHARM" - Rian Johnson, film producer
↑... it's not a rare case when you may spot graffitti on Belgrade buildings, even such cool artworks! This one is at Crnogorska Street in Savamala district.
“The sky above Belgrade is expansive and high, shifting yet
always beautiful; clear with its chill splendour during the winter;
turning into a single downcast cloud during summer storms, driven by the
crazy winds and bearing rain mixed with the dust of the Pannonian
plain; seeming to flower along with the ground during spring; and
growing heavy with roils of autumnal stars during fall. Always beautiful
and bountiful, it is a reward to this odd township for all that is
missing and a comfort for everything that should not be.”
Ivo Andrić, writer and Nobel Prize winner
↕... this area is close to the Main Railroad Station of the city. My
heart is simply mealting when i see such time-honoured buildings... ever
gorgeous!
↑... apart from the architectural charm of this house, i was attracted by the curious whale graffitti!
↑... The Belgrade Main Railway Station, built between 1882 and 1885 after the designs of the architect Dragutin
Milutinović. It has the status of the сultural monument of great
importance. [source: wikipedia]
