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NATO Ruins in Belgrade

EN: Observing NATO ruins in Belgrade it's understanding Serbian history!

PT: Fez ontem 20 anos que ocorreu o bombardeamento da NATO (Talvez já não se lembrem do que é por isso eu recordo-vos: NATO - Organização do Tratado do Atlântico Norte) em Belgrado.

Observar as ruínas da NATO em Belgrado é compreender a história do país!

Why Belgrade should be your next travel Destination!

(All photos taken by me)

Note: This is the second post about the volunteer internship i did in Serbia last year. You can read the first one here (only available in portuguese sorry).

It started with a simple hello and ended with a complicated goodbye.

Flatmates from all over the world :D (Italy, Nigeria, China, Turkey, Tunisia)

6 weeks that changed my life

It started with a simple hello and ended with a complicated goodbye

Global School of Entrepreneurship – AIESEC Serbia

“Ladies and gentlemen fasten your seatbelts” – Sérvia aqui vou euuuu!! :D

Sentada no avião só acreditei que isto estava mesmo a acontecer quando o avião descolou. Adoro esta sensação do avião a descolar: tem um cheiro a aventura e uma sensação de entusiasmo. Faz-me querer apanhar um avião para um sítio diferente todos os dias!

Chegada a Belgrado, lembro-me bem do que senti na viagem de carro para o apartamento que ia ser a minha casa durante as próximas 6 semanas. Vi Belgrado pela primeira vez numa noite quente de Junho e na viagem de carro, meia a dormir, meia a falar com a minha EP manager e a sua amiga, meia a contemplar a cidade eu só pensava “ok estou mesmo aqui. Isto está acontecer. Aconteça o que acontecer só vou sair daqui a 6 semanas.”. “Vai tudo correr bem” – pensei para comigo mesma. E assim foi.

Esta é a história de 6 semanas incríveis que mudaram a minha vida! Espero que gostem tanto de lê-la como eu gostei de a escrever! =)

Belgrado tem muitas igrejas ortodoxas lindíssimas tais como o templo e a Igreja de Saint Sava que podem ver aqui e a Igreja de St. Mark's que podem ver aqui.

Porém, entre guias e mapas turísticos, sites e blogs sobre a Sérvia e Belgrado descobri a mesquita Bajrakli - a única presente na cidade e por sinal bastante antiga.

Nunca tinha entrado numa mesquita portanto não demorei muito tempo até ir ver esta.

Avala tower: getting away from the buzz of the city

Sunday morning 9 am, my alarm clock rings. I hit snooze and after 10 min i get up with no trouble because i had planned a day with a lot to see outside Belgrade! I wake up my flatmates 2 or 3 times (eh eh eh true story :b) and after waiting a while for everybody to be ready (when you live with 8 people that's what happens) we left the house excited to discover new things!

From Banjica we get in the bus number 400 and in 25 minutes we got there! "Avala" was the name of the station were we left and while i was still in the bus i asked a boy from China if he was going there too. I found out that he had planned to go to Avala tower with friends from Lebanon, Cyprus, Spain and Russia that were in the bus with him. They join us and after introducing ouserlves we started walking to the top!

With such great company we reached the top easily talking about Serbia, Belgrade and our own countries.

Hotel Moskba is one of the oldest hotels in Serbia! Its oficial opening was in 1908.

Zeleni Venac market is the oldest green market still in function near the heart of the city!

Drinks

Rakija

In the heart of the former Yugoslavia lies an old tradition still quite unknown to the rest of the world: rakija (pronounced RA KEE YA). Rakija is the Serbo-Croatian name given to an alcoholic drink made from the distillation of fermented fruit. It is a clear-as-water kind of drink, with a percentage of alcohol that can range from approximately 40% to 65%.

Ada Ciganlija proudly bears the name of “Belgrade Sea”.

Food

Pljeskavica

Serbian Pljeskavica Hamburgers are Serbian hamburgers popular in one form or another throughout the Balkans, especially Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia.

The name for these meat patties comes from pljesak, a word meaning "to clap the hands," the motion used to form these thin, large burgers.

St. Mark's church is a Serbian Orthodox church located in the Tašmajdan park in Belgrade, near the Parliament of Serbia. It was built in the Serbo-Byzantine style by the Krstić brothers, completed in 1940, on the place of a previous church dating to 1835. It is one of the largest churches in the country.

If you want to relax in Belgrade and get away from the center Zemun is the right place!

view from Millennium tower

Belgrade Fortress is one of the world's oldest and most unique fortress.

Šako Polumenta

is a Montenegrin pop-folk singer popular throughout the former Yugoslav republics.

Temple of Saint Sava

The Temple of Saint Sava is the largest Serbian Orthodox church, and by it's volume, the largest Orthodox church in the world. It was erected on the location considered to be the place where Koca Sinan Pasha burned the relics of Saint Sava, founder of the Serbian Orthodox church in 1594.