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The most frequented groups would be teenagers, old people, and especially lovers, but don't feel intimidated, get your place under the sun, because for sure there will be the others, too! Although, in smaller number, to be honest... ;) Leave a Comment
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There are many Easter customs, the main ones are to go to church at midnight and bring coloured eggs (they were dyed on Good Friday in RED, although recently many started using different colours and colourful stickers). The first red coloured egg is called "C^UVARKUC'A" which means " a housekeeper" and it is kept in the house until the next Easter.
Easter fasting end on the Easter day, it is broken by cracking eggs and eating them. The one who doesn't have his egg cracked when they are knocked one against the another, is a winner! There is even an egg-knocing world championship in a small place in norhtern Serbia! :)
It is also a custom to light the candle on that day in the house... Leave a Comment
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People often throw them money from the balconies and windows, or sweets.
Usually they are invited to play on weddings and celebrations (birthdays for example).
Every year there is a "sabor" (meeting, reunion) of trumpet players in Guča, a village in central Serbia, that lasts for several days and there is a lot of food and drink, feasts all day long, lots of music, and at the end they elect the best trumpet musician. Of course, not only Gypsies participate, but often Gypsies are the best in that. Leave a Comment
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The route of the tram #2 is the only circling around the center of the city – therefore the center of the city is often referred to as "krug dvojke", which, literally translated from Serbian, means – "the circle of 'two'". This syntagma, besides its primary meaning – to define location, is well known metaphor with numerous connotations, both good and bad. It could suggest that someone or something is open-minded, urban, modern, developed… But it could also be used to point snobbery, false elitism, hypocrisy…
Taking "krug dvojke" – a drive around the center by tram #2 is not what many tourists do. But it could be interesting experience, although sometimes a slightly upsetting. Leave a Comment
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Beograde, dobro jutro – Good Morning Belgrade was morning show of Radio STUDIO B broadcasted for only two years, between July 1975 and July 1977. From the 23rd floor of Beogradjanka building, author, Serbian journalist and writer Dusko Radovic, in live programme, wished a good morning to all who happened to be in Belgrade. His wise, sharp, witty and, very often – critical observations on life, bringing up children, politics… and the city of Belgrade – marked an era and were important ingredient of what is called Belgrade spirit, in the most affirmative sense of that syntagma. His words, spoken in the radio show, were published in three books – "Beograde, dobro jutro" in 1977, "Beograde, dobro jutro 2" in 1981 and "Beograde, dobro jutro 3" in 1984.
A theater in Belgrade was named after Dusko Radovic – Malo pozoriste "Dusko Radovic".
For those who can read Serbian (or Croatian, Bosnian, Montenegrin…), here is – "Beograde, dobro jutro". Leave a Comment
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 by Biljana
~Domestic Brands: Niksicko Pivo, Beogradsko Pivo, Lav
~European Brands: Amstel, Desperados, Guiness, Heineken, Kaiser, Beck's, Nastro Azzurro
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 by Skipka
There are two different types of slava. The town slavas are celebrations dedicated to the saint chosen as the town patron by the population. Often it is also the saint that people of the town gave a solemn oath to when faced with some misfortune and hence celebrated in sign of gratitude for the mercy shown in saving them from such misery.
On that particular day, a procession tours the main streets and prayers are offered to God and the saint patron for the wellbeing and the fortune of all inhabitants.
Ever since 1403, when Despot Stefan Lazarevic granted Belgrade the status of capital city has been celebrating its Slava in honor of renewal and progress -Spasovdan- the Ascension of the Lord. This ancient slava symbolizes the ressurection - ascension of the city from the ashes and the unshakable faith and hope in the future. The Ascension of the Lord is a mobile holiday - it is always celebrated on Thursday, forty days after Easter. Leave a Comment
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