It floats on Sava river but I guess doesn't tour much. Besides, it doesn't have to. It's purposed to make money to its owner(s) while locals spend their free time on it.
If you turn your back to the river, disrispectful as it sounds it gives you one more intersting viewing angle to the city with the top of the war museum standing out in the background:
Sava river is not as big as Danube but it's big enough to have a port authority, hosted in this nice building with uninterrupted sunset view:
This building hosts (among others) one of the best restaurants around but the arty touch applied on those stairs caught my eye the most:
No shortage of nice buildings near Branko bridge either:
It's one of the many massive bridges of Sava river and I took a few shots from its least flattering side which is under:
Gives you an idea about the size though. And a view to the next bridge walking South, the old Sava bridge:
I don't complain at all. Not only because the shitty weather of the past days has lowered my expectations dramatically weather wise but it also spares me some sweat while walking in the absence of direct sunlight. Still, thirst knocks the door sooner or later and I think I just found a good way to deal with it:
Did you see it as a bottle upside down too? Once I did I could not unsee it ever since.
It really looks like one right? We're talking about the Belgrade tower:
And it's actually more curvy and sophisticated than it looks from far, making it less of a bottle from close. But, as I said, I cannot unsee the bottle 🙂
and focus on the tower's details that are not obvious from far. See how different its shape looks from close:
And continue to the rest of the city. The following statue is dedicated to the fallen coast guards during WWII:
It's pretty close to the French one which, to my surprise, has also named the street (Pariska).
Feels like the heart of Christianism beats in this neighboorhood with the impressive church of Archangel Michael,
The latter is massive and couldn't fit in just one shot so apologies for the demeaning image. Not that I am religious but I don't like it when things are not put in their real dimensions, literally or metaphorically.
Seriously now, there's obviously other reasons to like this building, either your taste in Architecture or your love for science in general as Dom Mike Alasa was the house of Mihailo Petrović, Mathematician:
That balcony eh? Wow.
On a much more contemporary note, this is the local shopping center, contradicting the past of the city on the right:
A few steps later the past wins, here at the Serbian Academy of Science and Art:
And when you have such a rich and glorious past even an Adidas store is hosted at a great building like this:
Among the most emblematic squares of the city is the one dedicated to Democracy and named after it where one can see the National Museum:
If this is too much history for you there's plenty of chances to digest it with the help of some grafitti:
That's how I ended my walk around Belgrade, a city which triggered more emotions than I initially expected. Imagine that it gave me so many images worth sharing by walking just a part of it. Thank you Beograd and of course my dear friend Sanda for making my life so much easier spotting the highlights than doing it all on my own as usual.
My Serbian time is far from over though, stay tuned cause there's more to come!
I hope you enjoyed it so far 🙂
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