Posts Tagged ‘Belgrade’

28-year-old Toulouse football supporter Brice Taton died this morning in a Belgrade hospital. Brice was critically injured on 17 September while sitting with other Toulouse fans in a cafe in central Belgrade when a group of some 30 hooligans/cowards attacked them unprovoked. This incident, along with a series of other attacks on foreigners over the [...]

This is Resavska ulica on a sunny afternoon in Belgrade. You may recognise it from this photo I took a few months back when it was in the middle of being dug up and renovated. The street reopened to cars and trams two weeks ago (if memory serves me right). It’s much better now with [...]

Bulevar kralja Aleksandra (King Aleksandar Boulevard) again makes an appearance in the Belgrade Weekly Phone Photo Series here at BalkanFile. This is much further up the boulevard than in previous photos. If you look at the very right hand side of the photo (click to enlarge), you can see a sign for a shop selling [...]

This is the Vozdovac Municipal Hall / Town Hall building. Vozdovac is one of Belgrade’s 17 municipalities. It is a very large neighbourhood located a few kilometres south of Belgrade city centre with a population of around 150,000 and sprawling out over an area of 150 square kilometres. The municipality has agricultural areas, highly-dense residential [...]

A street lamp in a residential street in Belgrade with a mass of wires, electrical I presume, wrapped around it and heading off in all directions.
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I captured this cute cat at the weekend while wandering around a part of Belgrade near the top of King Aleksandar Boulevard (Bulevar kralja Aleksandra). He or she was probably a stray and seemed very thin, though I don’t know whether that’s because of its young age or from a lack of food. S/he was [...]

This is a night time shot of Belgrade University’s Law Faculty (Pravni fakultet). The building, which is located on Bulevar krajla Aleksandra, was built before World War II and was renovated with the building of a modern annex in 1995. The faculty covers an area of 12,000 sq metres and has 60 offices, eight lecture [...]

This is the view of Knez Mihailova ulica (Prince Michael Street) you’ll see if you sit in Snezana, a famous restaurant on this even more famous pedestrianised central thoroughfare. The street is always packed with friends, couples and families walking up and down. Many will stop to buy an ice cream or lollipop from the [...]

The Guardian has written an online (not sure if it’s in print) article about Belgrade’s nightlife, focusing on dancing and drinking opportunities both along the Danube river and in the city.
Garth Cartwright sums up exactly why I love Belgrade at night:
Every night of the week it is home to a huge variety of clubs and [...]

This is “Ljuba’s Butcher Shop” in Kaleniceva pijaca, one of the main Belgrade green markets (fresh produce markets). It’s located in the Vracar district of Belgrade. This is where I buy fresh meat or processed meat, like hams and sausages, unless I’ve already bought them from a supermarket. Ljuba’s is not the only meat seller [...]

It’s a grey, rainy and cold day in Belgrade today, a marked difference from the high temperatures and blazing sunshine of last week. As I went out to get some groceries this morning, I was caught by surprise by these pigeons who had set up home in my stairwell, seemingly sheltering from the weather outside. [...]

In Belgrade, roadworks are done a bit differently to those back in the UK. This is Resavska street in central Belgrade, which has been completely dug up with new tram tracks, road surfaces and pavements being made. But if you need to go to a shop, get to your flat or normally use this street [...]

Here’s a cool cat I saw outside a pet shop just to the left of Studentski trg/Student Square on Friday. I think the pet shop owners own the cat, considering it has its own little shelter from the sun that also serves as a table for the shop’s staff on their cigarette and coffee breaks. [...]

Here’s a snapshot of Belgrader’s waiting for the bus on Bulevar Despota Stefana (formerly 29. Novembra). I was happily already on a bus going in the other direction. For Balkan File’s British readers, it may look like they’re forming a polite queue, but they’re not. It can be a free for all to [...]

I was eating in a restaurant opposite the Cathedral (Saborna crkva) in Belgrade this weekend and captured this shot of a wedding party leaving to go the wedding reception (the bridesmaid had just entered the car by the time I got my phone out). A Roma brass band came out of nowhere and played for [...]