“Belgrade Alternative Guide” represents a group of students from Belgrade who came together around the idea of showing their capital city to visitors in a manner different than that of tourist agencies.

This is a passionate group of students that state the following:

“Our purpose is for our guests to familiarize themselves with the way of life in our city. You will have the opportunity to get to know more about our young people, their friends and their friend’s friends, food, drinks, our habits, problems and our entertainment. The time you spend in Belgrade, you will spend living as a real Belgrader. Parties, get-togethers, debates, exhibits, and if it so happens that one of us is going to a house party while you’re visiting – you’re coming along!!! Of course, before all that you are welcome guests for dinner at grandma Mara’s, who’s cooking has no equal.”

This is indeed a great way to discover Belgrade, so if you’re visiting make sure you consider these students as your guides.

The traditional summer time festival, BELEF is staged in open air or in alternative urban spaces. It unifies theater, music and painting. The festival explores various city spaces and facilities, contents and innovative forms of artistic expression. BELEF strives to reflect the sensibility of Belgrade citizens and artists in all segments of its program.

The 2010 BELEF festival takes place over the summer months of July and August. Visit belef.org for more information.

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Forget the images of the war-torn 90s: today’s Belgrade is welcoming, exciting and diverse. Spend a few days here and you’ll promise never to believe the stereotypes again.

A nice article about Belgrade was published in yesterday’s issue of The Observer. Written by BBC’s Balkans correspondent Mark Lowen, the article is filled with suggestions of where to stay, places to visit, walking routes to take, where to eat like a local.

Read the full article

The 35th traditional Belgrade film festival – FEST – will take place from February 23rd to March 4th this year. This is the biggest film festival in the region and has always been a perfect oportunity to check out new good movies from both large and small productions.

This year the festival will be performed under the name “Europe out of Europe” and will be of competitive character and involve 8 small cinematographies of non-EU European countries.

The festival takes place in several locations: Sava Center (close to the Intercontinental and Hyatt hotels), Dom Sindikata (city center, Trg Nikole PaÅ¡ića), “DKC” (Kolarčeva street) and “Kinoteka” in Kosovska street. You can buy the tickets in each of these locations or at Bilet Servis at the Republic Square.

For the film programme, check out the official FEST 2007 website

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