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WALKING TOUR OF BELGRADE (up to 3 hours) - THE BELGRADE FORTRESS  - KNEZ MIHAILOVA STREET  - PRINCESS LJUBICA’S RESIDENCE - BELGRADE CATHEDRAL - THE SEAT OF THE SERBIAN PATRIARCH - “?” RESTAURANT - KOSANČIĆEV VENAC  - STUDENTS SQUARE - REPUBLIC SQUARE and TERAZIJE

THE BELGRADE FORTRESS is located on a hill overlooking the confluence of Sava River and the Danube. Over the centuries of sieges, battles and conquests, the fortress was repeatedly razed to the ground, rebuilt and restructered. The Belgrade Fortress consists of Upper Town, Lower Town and Kalemegdan Park. KNEZ MIHAILOVA STREET the main part of the pedestrian area between Terazije and Kalemegdan Park. Called after Prince Mihailo Obrenovic. PRINCESS LJUBICA’S RESIDENCE built in 1829 for the family of Prince Milos Obrenovic, and there lived his wife Ljubica and sons Milan and Mihailo. Today it houses a part of the ethnographic exhibition. BELGRADE CATHEDRAL the church built in 1845 dedicated to Archangels Michail & Gabriel, with tombs of some members of the Obrenović dinasty.  THE SEAT OF THE SERBIAN PATRIARCH accros the street of the Cathedral with Ecclestical Museum. “?” RESTAURANT built in 1825 got this unusual name as its last owner could not recall any batter. KOSANČIĆEV VENAC paved in cobbled stones having the look of the town from the first half of the 19th century. STUDENTSKI TRG square and park with several buildings of Belgrade University, Etnographic Museum and Kolarčev narodni univerzitet.  REPUBLIC SQUARE with the National Theatre, National Museum and the equestrian statue of Prince Mihail Obrenović. TERAZIJE the main squire called after the water level of the towers parts of the Turchish acquduct in existence there in the 18th century.

BELGRADE SIGHTSEEING TOUR (up to 3 hours)

ST. SAVA TEMPLE built where the remains of St. Sava were burnt by the Ottoman Turks in 1594. The construction began in 1936. As St. Sava Temple may host several thousand warshipers, it is one of the world largest Orthodox churces.
BELGRADE FORTRESS located on a hill overlooking the confluence of Sava River and the Danube. Over the centuries of sieges, battles and conquests, the fortress was repeatedly razed to the ground, rebuilt and restructured. The Belgrade Fortress consists of Upper and Lower Town and Kalemegdan Park.
THE PARLAMENT was built between 1907 and 1936 with the decoration of broze statues of men and hourses.
OLD PALACE built in 1882 as a private residence of King Milan Obrenović. Today it is Belgrade City Hall.
NEW PALACE built between 1911 and 1922 as a Royal palace of King Petra I Karađorđević. Today it is the Office of the Serbian President.
NATIONAL THEATRE built in 1869 with the efforts of Prince Mihailo Obrenović.
NATIONAL MUSEUM the oldest museum in Belgrade, situated in the building from 1903 and out of its treasure all the other Belgrade museums have been established.
TERAZIJE STREET the main squire called after the water level of the towers parts of the Turchish acquduct in existence there in the 18th century.
KRALJA MILANA STREET is the main street connecting Terazije and Slavija Square.
KNEZA MILOSA STREET one of the oldest and the most representative city streets, with Embassies, Ministries and the houses of wealthy citizens of the beginning of 20th century.
THE 25th of MAY MUSEUM, HOUSE OF FLOWERS built in 1975 as office with covered garden during Josip Broz Tito’s life, near his residence. According to his wish he was buried there. Today, there is a simple tomb of white marble.

- ST. SAVA TEMPLE
- BELGRADE FORTRESS 
- THE PARLAMENT
- OLD AND NEW ROYAL PALACE
- NATIONAL THEATRE
- NATIONAL MUSEUM
- KRALJA MILANA STREET
- TERAZIJE STREET 
- KNEZA MILOŠA STREET
- THE 25th of MAY MUSEUM

EXTENDED CITY TOUR (up to 5 hours)

NEW BELGRADE
- UŠĆE 
- SERBIA PALACE 
- ARENA 
- MODERN ART MUSEUM 

ZEMUN 
- MILLENNIUM TOWER 
- ST NIKOLAS CHURCH 
- KARAMATA FAMILY HOUSE
- THE CHURCH 
- SPIRTINA KUĆA 
- FRANCISCAN MONASTERY
- CHURCHES OF ST ARCHANGELS AND ST ROK

This tour includes: Belgrade sightseeing tour with NEW BELGRADE andZEMUN (Zemun a separate settlement throughout the centuries, but development of New Belgrade in the late 20th century joined them together in a continuous urban area) 

NEW BELGRADE

UŠĆE bussiness centre former seat of the Communist party of Yugoslavia, built between 1961 and 1965.
SERBIA PALACE former seat of the Yugoslav Goverment, built between 1947 and 1954.
ARENA one of the biggest sports complex hosting up to 25,000 spectators.
MODERN ART MUSEUM built 1961 and covering the development of the Yugoslav art from 1900 onwards, situated in a beautiful park of Peace and Friendship.

ZEMUN 

MILLENNIUM TOWER on Gardoš hill constracted in 1896 when the Hungaries of the Austrian Empire were celebrating a 1,000th anniversary of their comming to the Pannonian Plain.
ST NIKOLAS CHURCH the oldest one in the city constracted in 1742.
KARAMATA FAMILY HOUSE constracted in 1763 and lived in by the same family for almoust two and a half centuries.
THE CHURCH dedicated to the birth of Virgin Mary built in 1777 with richly decorated iconostasies.
SPIRTINA KUĆA family house from 1840, built pseudogotic stuly. Today is the Town museum.
FRANCISCAN MONASTERY built by the same order in 1739.
CHURCHES OF ST ARCHANGELS AND ST ROK constracted on the space of quarantine where people and goods had to wait before continuing there trip to prevent spreading of diseases from the East. 

RIVERS SIGHTSEEING TOUR (up to 2 hours)

This tour includes: two hours cruise on Sava and Danube rivers.

Where to Stay

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These are useful links about Belgrade Trip 

http://belgradecitycard.rs/home.html ( city card)

http://www.serbianheritagetours.com/#!belgrade-tours  (Private Tours)

http://www.explore-belgrade.com/

http://livinginbelgrade.com/....  

http://livinginbelgrade.com/virtual-tours-belgrade.php

http://www.guides-serbia.com/

http://baloncentar.com/ ( Baloon Tour) 

http://www.eurometronavodi.com/eng

http://www.turistvodic.info/2eng.htm (tour guides)

http://www.travelserbiabelgrade.com/en/excursions/boat-sightseeing.html (boat tours with dinner)

http://www.tob.rs/en/sightseeing_in.php?id=720 (Sightseeing by walk - 2,5 hours)
http://www.tob.rs/en/sightseeing_in.php?id=135 (Fruška gora and Novi Sad)

http://belguest.rs/

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Downfall: The Gradual Obliteration Of the German Army (1944-45)

Wounded German soldiers near Minsk, Belarus. 1944.

It was a painful process. The once mighty Wehrmacht was slowly disintegrating. It started with Moscow in 1941 and then Stalingrad in 1942-43. It was a slow downfall of a mighty fighting machine that the world will ever see again. Wrought by the obstinate stupid decisions of Hitler that made little military sense. His main weakness was that he did not give a free hand to his brilliant military commanders like Manstein and Guderian. (Unlike Stalin)

The years 1943-45 were years that saw a gradual obliteration of the German Army by the Red Army. The very fact that it took three years for the Russians to do it speaks volumes of the fighting quality of the German soldier.

Here it is. In images.

 Soviet officers interrogate a captured German general. 

Batov's 65th Army now fought their way into Babruysk street by street against stiff resistance from the German rearguard. Babruysk, in ruins and with much of its population killed during the German occupation, was liberated on June 29, 1944, the 383rd Infantry Division commencing withdrawal towards dawn: no further elements of Ninth Army would escape from east of the Berezina. The German breakout had allowed around 12,000 troops - mostly demoralised and without weapons - from the pocket east of Babruysk to get out, but the Soviets claimed 20,000 taken prisoner. A further 50,000 were dead: Soviet accounts speak of the area being carpeted with bodies and littered with abandonedmateriel. The Soviet writer, Vasily Grossman, entered Babruysk shortly after the end of the battle:

"Men are walking over German corpses. Corpses, hundreds and thousands of them, pave the road, lie in ditches, under the pines, in the green barley. In some places, vehicles have to drive over the corpses, so densely they lie upon the ground [...] A cauldron of death was boiling here, where the revenge was carried out"

Ninth Army had been decisively defeated, and the southern route to Minsk was open.

Destroyed German equipment in the Zhlobin highway. Belarus

Destroyed German tanks in Belarus

Russian warplanes attack a German convoy in Belarus, the summer of 1944.

Russian self-propelled guns SU-76M pass dead German soldiers. Belarus, Spring 1944.

Soviet soldiers in the battle on the streets of the city of Polotsk. July 1-4, 1944

Broken and abandoned German equipment in Bobruisk.

 Red Army soldiers are fighting in the streets of Belgrade. Picture was taken at the height of the battle for Belgrade. In the foreground, a machine gunner with the DP-27. October 19, 1944.

A Belgrade resident looks at a dead German soldier. Brothers Jugovic Street (city center). 19-20 October 1944. In the battle of Belgrade itself  the defending Germans, Italians, Chetniks  lost 18,000 (killed) men. The loss of the Red Army - about 900 men, People's Liberation Army of Yugoslavia lost (though they actually were in the second tier) - about 2,200 men.

A Dead German soldier on the road in a suburb of Belgrade Topchidere. October 16, 1944.

Soviet tanks shot this German armored convoy to pieces in Belgrade. In the foreground - the Italian ACS Semovente L6/40 da 47/32, in the background of the tank, which served as her base: L6/40. October 1944.

Soviet soldiers with captured German Panzer 4 tanks in Belgrade. 1944.

A destroyed German self-propelled gun StuG III on the Boulevard of Liberation in Belgrade. Picture taken on October 18, 1944 - at the height of the battle for the city. However, the street  is  full of curious civilians, including children. In the distance one can see the dome of the Cathedral of St. Mark.

German soldiers under cover of a Tiger tank from the 502th battalion of heavy tanks at Narva, Estonia. February 1944.

 Estonians in the Red Army pose against a German ACS

A column of German prisoners of war held near the railway station in Riga. In 1944. Some of them are smiling. Glad that the agony is over?

 German soldiers pass by an immobilised Soviet IS-2 tank, during the fighting in Jelgava (Mitau) central Latvia. In 1944.

German soldiers surrender in Vilnius. July 11, 1944.

 German snipers clean weapons and equipment in between battles. Romania, summer 1944. These guys are doing their job despite the fact that they knew the end was near.

Destroyed German military hardware lies strewn in Znojmo in Czechoslovakia. 1945

German tank destroyer Jagdpanzer 38, Hetzer lies abandoned in  Prague. May 1945.

The Germans were retreating from Czechoslovakia. Here they are seen leaving for Hrushky, a small Czech town. April 1945.

A German Stug 3 stands forlorn on the streets of Prague. 1945. The German soldiers were gone. They were dead or had retreated.

German military equipment lie broken in Znojmo, Czechoslovakia. May 1945. The Russians had given a hammering.

 Soviet troops with Hungarian POW on Debozy Street, Budapest. January 1945

 A dead German Waffen SS soldier on the street in Budapest. February 1945

A column of wrecked German armored cars and personnel carriers in Budapest

DFS-230 glider sergeant Filiusa George (Georg Filius), crashed into a building number 35 or 37 (according to different sources), Attila the street while trying to land on the Bloody Meadow in Budapest on February 4, 1945. Gliders were used to give ammunition to the soldiers fighting there. The pilot died in the crash.

 These Germans  in a Sonderkraftfahrzeug 251are still fighting on. Fighting Soviet troops in Hungary. January 1945

 German soldiers surrender in Budapest, Hungary. February, 1945

Russian troops in Budapest

 German POW are made to see the remains of the inmates of the Majdanek camp. Outskirts of the city of Lublin, Poland, 1944.

 July 30, 1944. Poland. German troops firing at the advancing Red Army with a Pak 40 anti-tank gun.

 German troops aboard a Sturmpanzer 43 play with a monkey in Warsaw, Poland. August-September 1944

Grenadiers  of the German SS Panzer Division "Totenkopf" change position during the battle of Warsaw, running past a burning Soviet T-34 tank. August 18, 1944.

 A dead German soldier lies in Vienna. April 1945

 Austrian children play near the remains of a heavy Panzer 4 tank outside Vienna

 This family of a Nazi official killed itself rather than fall into Russian hands. Vienna, Austria. 1945. Soviet officers stand watching the bodies.

Soviet soldiers march down a street of Vienna.

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