Tag: Belgrade Parks

Just imagine… A pleasant, chilly, early morning on the outskirts of Belgrade. Sun rays are peeping out behind the low residential buildings across the road, and breaking through the clouds dust that rises from the ground, just to rest on the face of the young lieutenant of the Royal Guard. He takes out his fire steel and the flint, lits his rolled cigarette and prepares for the muster. The neighing and snorting, the clip-clopping of horses and the banter of youngsters wearing their perfectly ironed uniforms echo between the low barracks and stables. The horse-car tumult and the giggling of the young dames…

Introduction If we’d have to describe Karađorđe’s Park through a series of phrases we would choose the park of wartime memorials, dogs, white coats and football hooligans. Karađorđe’s Park is considered the founder of public green spaces in Belgrade. The first deliberately planted chestnuts and acacias date all the way back to 1806. Today, the park covers a modest area of 3 acres on the Vračar slope, edged by two thoroughfares – Neboysha’s street and Liberation Boulevard. The main path goes full length of the park. The foliage that encircles it is almost like a fairytale alleyway. And just a…

If you’re among those who don’t know what Pioneers Park in Belgrade is, you might be led to think that it is somehow related to Pioneers Town in Košutnjak, the Home of Pioneers or the Youth center. To those of us who grew behind the Iron Curtain, it only seemed natural that Pioneers should have their parks and settlements, and then when they grow up a bit, they move to youth and student homes, towers and cities. Well, at least it did to this author’s underage logic. None of those places are related, apart from the fact that they were named…