Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. The city lies at the confluence of the Sava and Danube Rivers in north central Serbia, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkan Peninsula. With a population of 1,576,124 (2002), Belgrade is the largest city on the territory of the former Yugoslavia, and the fourth largest in Southeastern Europe, behind Istanbul, Athens and Bucharest.

Belgrade has a moderate continental climate. The year-round average temperature is +11.7 °C, while the hottest month is July, with an average temperature of +22.1 °C.

What can you see in Belgrade? 

• The National Museum. It houses a collection of more than 400,000 exhibits, including many foreign masterpieces and the famous Miroslavljevo Jevanđelje (Miroslav''s Gospel).
• The Military Museum. Houses a wide range of more than 25,000 military exhibits dating as far back as to the Roman period, as well as parts of a F-117 stealth aircraft shot down by Yugoslav forces.
• The Ethnographic Museum, established in 1901, contains more than 150,000 items showcasing the rural and urban culture of the Balkans, particularly the countries of the former Yugoslavia.
• The Museum of Contemporary Art has a collection of around 8,540 works of art produced in Yugoslavia since 1900.
• The Nikola Tesla Museum, founded in 1952, preserves the personal items of Nikola Tesla, the inventor after whom the Tesla unit was named. It holds around 160,000 original documents and around 5,700 other items.

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The historic areas and buildings of Belgrade are among the city''s premier attractions. They include Skadarlija, the National Museum and adjacent National Theatre, Zemun, Nikola Pašić Square, Terazije, Students'' Square, the Kalemegdan Fortress, Prince Michael Street, the Parliament, the Temple of Saint Sava, and the Old Palace. On top of this, there are many parks, monuments, museums, cafιs, restaurants and shops on both sides of the river. The hilltop Avala Monument offers views over the city. Josip Broz Tito''s mausoleum, called Kuća Cveća (The House of Flowers), and the nearby Topčider and Košutnjak parks are also popular, especially among visitors from the former Yugoslavia.

 
Transportation 

Belgrade has an extensive public transport system based on buses, trams, and trolleybuses.Travel by coach is also popular, and the capital is well-served with daily connections to every town in the country. The motorway system provides for easy access to Novi Sad and Budapest, the capital of Hungary, in the north; Niš to the south; and Slavonski Brod, to the west.

Situated at the confluence of two major rivers, the Danube and the Sava, Belgrade has many bridges—the two main ones are Branko''s bridge and Gazela, both of which connect the core of the city to New Belgrade.

The Port of Belgrade is on the Danube, and allows the city to receive goods by river.

The city is also served by Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport (BEG), 12 kilometres west of the city centre, near Surčin. 

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Source: Wikipedia 

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