Posts Tagged ‘Belgrade’

It’s official -  Madonna, undoubtedly the queen of pop, is returning to the Balkans following her Budva, Montenegro, concert last year. Gigs in Belgrade, Ljubljana, Bucharest and Sofia have been added to the the second half of her Sticky & Sweet Tour, which will visit 22 European cities this July and August.
Rumours have been circulating [...]

It snowed almost non-stop for several days last week in Belgrade, covering the city in inches upon inches of clean, white snow. Unfortunately, it’s not so pretty when it becomes slushy and dirty.
This is photo was taken on Saturday afternoon at Republic Square (Trg republike). It’s one of the main meeting points for friends before [...]

Photo by Violentz
According to a report (in Serbian) by the Union of Economists of Serbia, Belgrade is the cheapest capital city in the region when it comes to the price of food. The researchers recorded the prices of 28 different food products, such as bananas, yogurt, bread, apple juice, beer, flour, potatoes, chicken and toothpaste, [...]

This rather interesting building is the YU Business Centre (YU Biznis Centar) on Bulevar Mihaila Pupina in New Belgrade (Novi Beograd). New Belgrade is a 15.7 sq miles municipality over the Sava river from Belgrade’s centre on a former swamp and around 240,000 people live there. Its construction started in 1947, which still continues to [...]

This is a typical communal entrance to a block of flats in Belgrade with individual post boxes/pigeon holes for each flat in the building. Coming from the UK, I was a bit shocked that your mail was left downstairs and not delivered through your own personal letter box in the door, especially because the boxes [...]

This is Branko’s Bridge (Brankov most) on a hazy Friday night. The bridge, built in 1957, is the second largest in Belgrade and connects the old city centre with New Belgrade (Novi Beograd) across the Sava river. Some 90,000 cars, trucks and buses cross it every day and traffic jams are a frequent annoyance for [...]

A new feature here at BalkanFile.com is a weekly Belgrade photo. I sometimes take my digital camera with me when I go outside, but more often than not it’s left at home. One thing that’s always in my pocket is my mobile phone. So, this new type of regular post, published every Sunday, will feature [...]

From the title of this post, you probably thought I was going to talk about crime, gun warfare or gangs making the streets of Belgrade a dangerous place to be. But no, what I’m referring to is ice. Apart from today, it’s been pretty darn freezing across the Balkans – Belgrade being no exception – [...]

Viktor over at Belgraded has posted an interesting link to an article about Belgrade and Serbia at Ireland’s Tribune newspaper. It’s not your usual tourist targeted article and delves much deeper under the often shiny surface of the country’s capital into a much ‘darker’ world.
Viktor gives his opinion on the article which is a bit [...]

I went for a short stroll around my local neighbourhood here in Belgrade today – mainly to go to the Speak Easy coffee shop on Sveta gorska ulica and buy some muffins if I’m honest. It was about 3.30pm and it was still relatively sunny but a bit chilly as winter slowly draws in. I [...]

Today, the car which is synonymous with Serbia and the old Yugoslavia, the Yugo, will for the last time roll off the production line. The various models of the Yugo have been produced by Kragujevac-based Zastava since 1981.  Cheap, affordable and reliable (?), they soon took off across the entire Yugoslavia and even broke into [...]

According to this article from B92, 16 people have been attacked and bitten by a pack of stray dogs which hangs out at the hospital in Zajecar, a town of 39,000 in eastern Serbia, over the last two weeks. Patients and doctors have been bitten, with one victim saying that the dogs were calm at [...]

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This article about Belgrade was published yesterday in the travel section of the Times Online. It tells readers in the UK and across the world to ‘enjoy the finest nightclubs, bars and restaurants in Europe’s new capital of cool’. Well, for us in the region, it’s been a well-known secret for sometime that Belgrade [...]

Photo by kalandrakas
Is the cloudy and cold weather getting you down? Feel like you just need to have a warm, comforting hug? Well, you should definitely head to Belgrade’s Trg republike (Republic Square) on Sunday, 26 October, because free hugs (besplatni zagrljaji) will be dispensed to everyone and anyone who feels the need for some [...]

The 53rd International Belgrade Book Fair (Medjunarodni beogradski sajam knjiga) was opened last night by the acclaimed Serbian author Dragoslav Mihailovic whose works include Kad su cvetale tikve and Goli otok. Held at the Belgrade Fair complex, over 800 publishers from Serbia and over 20 countries, such as the UK, Canada, Angola, Denmark, Ukraine, the [...]