Real life exhibition of each and every architectural style present in Belgrade
Insight into evolution of Belgrade from Ottoman kasaba into the capital of Serbia
Slice of the city’s most coveted quarters
This street is a slideshow of architecture from the last 200 years, hosting various functions of a capital, commercial and religious centre and habitat, telling of its public and private lives.
Still there where the Romans set the decumanus of Singhidunum, Kralja Petra Street is a time travel in just one elegant street. It used to connect civilisations, literally. The street begins above the right bank of Sava river in the West and ends above the right bank of Danube. The western end is where the Serbs had lived. The eastern end is the area that had been populated by foreign communities, either those of the conquerors like Turks and Germans, or merchants from Dubrovnik who found home here along their trade routes like or seeking safer environments, like Jews.
The central part presents us with the elegant palaces of well to do merchants and investors of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, styled as per the tastes of the times and their patrons - from academic neo historical styles to the art nouveau as the precursor to modernism. The ancient palimpsest is sprinkled with several examples of socialist modernist architecture: residential and business buildings from 50ies and 60ies. As we stroll down, towards East and Danube, we witness the legacy of the multicultural Belgrade of the 1600ies and 1700ies: the Jewish community municipality just a corner away from the Mosque.
To complement this vivacious street walk, the quarters stemming right and left are rich with museums, galleries, tasteful shops, bistros and artisanal eateries.
