Kalemegdan: Park and Fortress

Kalemegdan

Kalemegdan is largest and most popular park in Belgrade.
It also has big historically-cultural meaning because of famous Belgrade Fortress.

Fortress is old hundreds years and it was important strategic point for medieval Serbia, because it was a strategic place on border with Austria-Hungary.

More than 20 times this fortress was conquered from south slavs by Lyres, Bulgars, Hungarians, Turks, Germans but in the end it was liberated by nobody else, than Serbs.

There are numerous monuments of old artillery, guns, tanks that were used in wars.

On corner of confluence of Sava and Danube the "Winners" statues is located. Staning on that spot gives you panoramic look on Vojodina(Everything norh from Belgrade, great plains).

Park was made in 19th century by will of principality of Serbia.  There are Zoo park, The old Roman well,  and War Museum, all within 700 meters.

This nice place is real picture of our history, entertainment and beauty.

Today u can see young couples walking around, old people playing chess, many tourists taking pictures of pretty much everything. 

This historical complex includes many monuments, old fortress, staute of "The Winner" and a few bars where you can sit to drink a coffee.

View is absolotley amazing, you can see central Europe from it, whole north part of Belgrade city.

Belgrade from air

Checking out Belgrade from air

You can see statue "Winner" , St. Sava Church , Republic square, the "Gazela bridge", Lake Ciganlia, "Ada bridge" and many more. This is just what i was talking about so far, you can now see it.

Video by D.Trifunović

Hope you will like this video, more posts soon!

Wrong opinion about Serbia and Belgrade

Since our blog is pretty much visited by visitor from USA and GB which i want to greet and thank for reading.I want to educate people that things they see on television are absolutely false and just unnecessary propaganda against my beautiful country and city.
Serbia is very old culture in middle of Balkan peninsula. It was mentioned in old scriptures about 1300 years ago!
First ancient houses appeared in Vincha(north Belgrade) 4800 years before Christ. First city name was Singidunum and it was funded by Romans,  3 centuries BC.
When Serbs populated Belgrade, they renamed it in Beograd, which if we would transalte it directly would mean WHITE-CITY(BEO-GRAD).
Politics which i don't want to talk about too much is largely responsible for global wrong opinion about or culture, people, and everything.
My people are aware of how old our culture and traditions are, and therefore do not allow any foreign interference, which produces a bad relationships between Serbia and other countries.
First question that you will ask, i'm sure is: Are Serbia and Belgrade even safe?
-Because of bad propaganda and all incorrect things you heard, it's quite normal to ask that question. My family lives here about 150 years, and they never had any problems.Crime is on low level and demonstrations are not constant..All things you hear are rumors.
Why would we travel to Belgrade, there are more interesting places?
People that come to Belgrade, never come once..they always come back, why? Because of all things i mentioned in earlier posts and because all things i'll mention in future, all theaters, concerts, parties, movies, good people, cultural heritage, exquisite music, and all positive things they have been to.
Once again, thank you all people who read my blog, i hope you will continue! :)
It is about a month i run this blog with my friend, and i hope that we will progress more.