Belgrade has played a significant role in world history. The city’s location at the confluence of the Danube and Sava rivers, in the north central part of Serbia, has been of strategic importance to Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman, Serbian and Austrian empires for centuries. In the past 2000 years, Belgrade has been bombed, on average, every 30-40 years and was bombed most recently in 1999 by NATO. Today, visitors to Belgrade find magnificent architecture of times past, newer construction in place of buildings that fell to conflict and, finally, bombed out buildings that have yet to be replaced. The overall feel might be described as a gritty magnificence; a reminder of the city’s age and strategic importance in history.
© Anne Warfield Photography & Digital Art
