Just as the Dunđerski family was a symbol of the rich Serbian commercial and industrial elite in Austria-Hungary, so the new owners of the Sokolac castle symbolize the newly rich Serbians, so it can be said that Maja Buha - Lenka Dunđerski is the measure of 21st century Serbia
While the opponents of Brexit in front of Big Ben play songs in which they mock Nigel Farage, the most responsible for the exit of Great Britain from the EU, it is estimated that 30.000 millionaires have left London in the past 10 years
Within the framework of two exhibitions in Rome, for the next three months, there are also traces of Serbia: among the works of Alfonso Mucha is Coronation of King Dušan, and among the works at the exhibition opened by Mussolini 90 years ago, there is a self-portrait of Milena Barili
Those who demolished, mined and burned the places of worship of all three sides during the war have an identical attitude towards their heritage, their own and others', even in peace 30 years later
Without a single original song, the twenty-year-old student from Vinkovci, Jakov Jozinović, is currently the number one pop-cultural phenomenon in the entire region. The combination of Balasevic's, Oliver's and Chola's old songs and his youth, energy and spontaneity causes hysteria among girls that can be compared to that of the Beatles.
Corrupt (or just careless and incompetent) decision-makers, greedy investors, insufficiently aware locals conspired against cultural heritage in Vojvodina, and only in the end - the ravages of time.
An exhibition of 75 posters from the Mussolini era is underway in New York, testifying to the ever-present connection between artists, companies, marketing experts and a totalitarian regime.
Last week, the world premiere of Dan Brown's new book The Secret of Secrets took place in Prague. This novel is also set in that city, and the "Vremena" reporter was in the right place at the right time.
The Feast of St. Elijah in Gornji Stoliv and the islet where Our Lady of Mercy is located, less known than the famous Our Lady of Škrpjela, are the hidden gems of the Bay of Kotor
Montenegrin minister Slaven Radunović proposed a referendum on whether Kotor should remain on the UNESCO World Heritage List and caused more furore than the appearance of a whale in the Gulf, but also brought the first prize to the boat "Don't throw pearls before swine" on Bokeška night
The genie that was released from the bottle at the Zagreb Hippodrome at the beginning of July, flew over Split's "Poljud" and landed in Sinj, where Thompson's second big concert was held, and arrived, admittedly somewhat weakened, at the Rovinj waterfront
The picturesque town of Cavtat in Konavle hides the birthplace of the famous painter Vlaho Bukovac, the mausoleum of the Račić family, the work of the sculptor Ivan Meštrović, but also the story of a bizarre episode from the recent history of these areas, when the new Republic of Dubrovnik was proclaimed here
About Goran Tomašević, a photographer who was not good enough to be hired by a Belgrade daily, but who did win the Pulitzer Prize, and about his exhibition in Dubrovnik
Apart from luxury hotels, apartment complexes and golf courses, the Luštica peninsula in Boka Kotor also hides numerous natural, historical and architectural pearls that are easiest to explore on two wheels.
Sol Kerzner, the son of Russian Jews who moved to South Africa, decided one day that he wanted a new life. He became the owner of a chain of hotels, two of which are located in Montenegro
Liverpool is home to the largest cathedral in the United Kingdom, one of the oldest football stadiums in the world and two museums dedicated to the Beatles. However, it reached the media around the world this time because of a 53-year-old who was anonymous until yesterday
Famed architect Frank Gehry, 96, is still waiting for the opening of his masterpiece, the Guggenheim Museum Abu Dhabi, which has now been pushed back to 2026. Until then, if you're in the UAE capital, you can visit two other impressive buildings - the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque and the Louvre Abu Dhabi
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
