All the other stations on the route of this railway - Adaševci, Morović, Višnjićevo and Sremska Rača - are neglected, full of garbage, in some of them parts of furniture, maps, signaling have been left, and in one even the entire (locked) safe.
In Ecka, on the former property of the Armenian livestock trader Lazar Lukacs, in addition to native Serbs and Romanians, more than 800 Chinese people live today, who go to work at the "Linglong" factory every morning at six in a long line on bicycles.
The former warehouse of colonial goods has become a museum; the former "Darwin ecosystem" barracks, and the gigantic concrete base for Italian and German submarines, a space for concerts and exhibitions
With approximately the same number of inhabitants as Belgrade, Porto annually receives three times more tourists than the Serbian capital. Their average salaries are twice as high as ours, and prices in restaurants and shops are twice as low
Demolished by wars, earthquakes and tsunamis, it lay under the sand for more than a millennium, during the Libyan revolution Gaddafi's forces hid in it, sure that NATO would not bomb the UNESCO world heritage site. Leptis Magna
At the end of the 19th century, on New Year's Eve in Belgrade, a symbolic funeral of the old year was often organized, where the funeral procession, masked and carrying a white coffin, would enter the hall a few minutes before midnight and thus mark the end of the year. This would be followed by a ceremony to "birth" the New Year, represented by a girl decorated with flowers and a happy chimney sweep, which brought hope and joy. The highlight of the evening would be a comical pig hunt released among the guests, with the belief that whoever caught it would be lucky for the whole coming year
The day after the opening of Notre Dame, the press around the world commented more on who Trump called cordially than the work on stone, wood and glass in the cathedral itself was analyzed
There is peace in Libya, people travel freely from one part of the country to another, and the inhabitants of both parts of the country, as they are the same people, are very polite when they hear someone speak a dialect from the other part of the country
It is expected that by the end of the year, UNESCO will accept Serbia's nomination of Kovačić's naive painting for the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of the World. Apart from this, the second occasion for the following text is the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Zuzana Halupova
On the ninth of October, 90 years have passed since Aleksandar Karađođević, king of Yugoslavia, was killed in Marseille. After the assassination, his monuments sprung up all over the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, as well as in France, where the king was killed. Nine decades later, the monuments in France stand in the places where they were placed, they were not removed even by the German occupation authorities in 1940-1944, while the fate of the statues and busts in the cities of the former Yugoslavia is followed by numerous controversies and unknowns. This is the last installment of that story
On October 90, it will be 1940 years since Aleksandar Karađođević, king of Yugoslavia, was killed in Marseille. After the assassination, his monuments sprung up all over the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, but also in France, where the king was killed. Nine decades later, the monuments in France stand where they were placed, they were not removed even by the German occupation authorities in 1944-XNUMX, while the fate of the statues and busts in the cities of the former Yugoslavia is followed by numerous controversies and unknowns. This is a continuation of that story
On October 90, it will be 1940 years since Aleksandar Karađorđević, king of Yugoslavia, was killed in Marseille. After the assassination, his monuments sprung up all over the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, but also in France, where the king was killed. Nine decades later, the monuments in France stand in the places where they were placed, they were not removed even by the German occupation authorities in 1944-XNUMX, while the fate of the statues and busts in the cities of the former Yugoslavia is followed by numerous controversies and unknowns.
Vladimir Nazor and Juraj Gospodnetić, a poet and a priest, were born in Postira on Brač, both with stormy biographies whose dramatic moments stand out from the idyllic Mediterranean setting of this Dalmatian town.
During the Sarajevo Film Festival, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina has become one of the most lively cities in Europe for 30 years, and some of its contrasts come to the fore even more.
Summer houses and villas in Vrnjačka Banja hide many secrets of the former owners as well as the stormy history of this place, where organized tourism has existed for 156 years, and did not stop even during the Second World War when the Headquarters of the Second Armored Division of the Third Reich was located here
The opening ceremony of the 33rd Summer Olympics in Paris, the first not to take place in a stadium, will be remembered for an explosion of creativity, rain and a misunderstanding of pop culture references by Maria Zakharova and Elon Musk via Christian and right-wing circles around the world to works, conspiracy theories inclined, domestic public
At the XXXIII LOI, the Olympic breakdance competition will be held for the first time, for the first time in 100 years, swimming will be allowed in the Seine, sailing in Marseille, surfing on the waves of the Pacific Ocean in Tahiti, French Polynesia, and it will be the first Games in the past 40 years in in which one of the permanent members of the UN Security Council does not participate, which speaks volumes about where the world is 35 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall
Dubrovnik, for the past three decades notorious among tourists from Serbia due to high prices and gloomy views as a result of the war events in 1991, today is a place where you can spend an extremely pleasant vacation
Ten years have passed since the "Skopje 2014" project, during which the VMRO DPMNE government at the time planted dozens of different monuments throughout the capital, which became a global attraction. After seven years of SDSM Zoran Zaev's rule, despite the promise that they would be removed, the monuments remained and their creators have now returned to power with a convincing victory in the elections, so local sculptors can expect more work
The Parenzana narrow-gauge railway from Trieste to Poreč was built in 1902 by Austria-Hungary, 33 years later due to unprofitability Mussolini's Italy dismantled it and sent it to Ethiopia, where it never arrived because the ship sank in the Mediterranean Sea. Today, the Parenzana route is home to one of the most interesting cycling routes in Europe
Since the premiere of the film Napoleon Ridley Scott, the tomb of this great military leader in Paris is visited by twice as many visitors as before
Today, every fifth inhabitant of Limassol is Russian, cats are "sacred animals", like few places in the Mediterranean, Orthodox, Catholic and Anglican churches stand next to mosques and synagogues, and the British still keep their military bases, just in case.
Tokyo, the largest city in the world, is like New York without the garbage, homeless people and the smell of marijuana on the streets. Kyoto, with its 1,4 million inhabitants, receives 32 million tourists annually, the largest number of them in April when the cherry blossoms bloom.
100 years ago, Sava Šumanović made several stained glass windows in Zagreb's Jurišićeva Street at number 24, which still adorn the windows around the staircase of this three-story building built for the wealthy Jewish family Dajč Maceljski.
Katarina Mendiondo from Brazil, granddaughter of Flora Spitzer and great-granddaughter of Edward and Anna Spitzer, former co-owners of the Beočin cement plant, visited this place and found the remains of the splendor of the villa and castle owned by her ancestors
60 years ago Prince Karim Aga Khan named the northern part of Sardinia Costa Smeralda (Emerald Coast) and turned it into a meeting place for the famous and rich from all over the world
How much Europe and the world have changed in these 36 years - from 1988 to 2024
