Zemun, Belgrade

Get away from the chaos of Belgrade's city centre for a bit with a short trip out to Zemun. Being close to the river, there's a nice stroll to be had along the banks before or after seeing the town itself. Zemunians consider themselves a separate entity from Belgradians apparantly, as the town has gradually grown into a 'suburb' of the city itself. There are the usual street cafes and shopping streets as well as the riverside restaurants and cafes (see my Restaurant Tip)

Domestic Museum Of Zemun was founded in 1954. and since 1968. is a part of the Belgrade city Museum. It is situated in the building that once belonged to a well known noble family Spirita. The house was builted in 1855. in neogothic style. Because of it's remarkable architecture and preserve enterier, this house presents a cultural wealth.

Gardos represents part of Zemun with its own cultural-historicaly heredity.Architecture of the houses on Gardos is different from other part of Zemun.With its own specific standing,narrow streets with cobble and the tower, Gardos could represents significant sightseeing atraction also…

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Walking around the gardos and its small streets is very special experience. On the highest part of Gardos you can see remains of medieval fortification and Millennium monument.
Medieval fortification was built in the 14th century at the place of the former one, which was noticed back in 11th century.
Millennium monument ( Tower ) was built in 1896, in the name of 1000th anniversary of Hungarian reign.
From this place, you can see beautiful view all over the Zemun, Belgrade and Danube.

Gardos Hill with its medieval fort is the oldest part of Zemun. The complex of narrow curved streets on and under the hill is realy nice for stroling around. Worth visiting is the Baroque Orthodox Church of St. Nicholas from 1731 as well as the Roman Chatolic Church of the Blessed Virgin that dates roughly from same period.

In my opinion Zemun is must see when visiting Belgrade.
It is completely different as it was town of its own before it was incorporated within Belgrade in 20th c. As a metter of fact, it has an Ausro-Hungarian herritage while Belgrade has the lots of features that indicate Turkish influence. The Danube promenade is nice place to walk or relax in one of the picturesque cafe or restazrant.
Glavna (Main) Street is the heart of Zemun center along with the pedestrian zone in Gospodska street and Pobeda (Victor) Square. This part of Zemun bear the marks of the Central Europian arhitecture.

The full name of this church is "Hram rodjenja Presvete Bogorodice"and it is the largest church in the emun area. It was built between 1775 and 1783 in the Serbian-Byzantine style of architecture. The iconostasis was done by Aksentije Markovic in 1788 and painted by Arsenije Teodorovic in 1815.

Zemun is a city within a city. At some point in history Zemun was actually a separate city from Belgrade but it later joined with Belgrade and became one of its boroughs. The people of Zemun still like to think that they live in a separate city but we all know that its not true :-P
Anyway, its a really nice place to spend the day, walk along the danube shore and relax.