Shopping

You will not find in Belgrade the same level of shopping as in great European capitals, but the question of souvenir and of local products will not fail. The Serbia and Montenegro capital is abundant in shops and stands offering to you at the prices that could maybe lowered all sorts of articles. The liberalisation in these last years, has also here impressed its seal in the urban landscape. The totally new or little urban commercial centres well supplied, nothing would lack to your purse.

Souvenirs

A few good addresses in the centre of the town:

- BEOIZLOG and SINGIDUNUM on 6 and on 42 of the Street Knez Mihailova: two certain values for buying typical products as the clothes, tapestry and little rare traditional artistic objects. Two stores open till 9 p.m.

- ZDRAVO I ZIVO, Terazije 15-28 (in a passage in front of Balkan hotel): icons, wooden objects and very various and always typical pottery.

- At the beginning of the walking street of Knez Mihailova before coming to the Park of Kalemegdan many stands offer to you the painting things and pottery directly coming from the artists’ workshops. Possibility to bargain the price.

A little farther on, but very interesting if one has the interest in….

- the religious art: Don’t miss the shop on No 20 boulevard Kralja Aleksandra in front of St. Marko church), icons made in the greatest monasteries candelabras or more simple the religious calendars decorated richly, everything is here!

- the football kinds: go and visit the shop of the “Red Star”, Ljutice Bogdana 1or that of their rival “Partizan”, Humska 1.

The street of commerce

Two very good supplied streets of commerce go from the town centre:

- KRALJA MILANA (between Terazije and Slavija: you will find here many very interesting bijouterie things. Begin with those beside the “Komercijalna Banka”, leaving Terazije, and a lot of clothes stores. At the middle height, on the level of the theatre in great windows, several disc stores will permit you to choose some Slav melodies.

- Don’t hesitate to enter the passages there could perhaps be find something suitable…

- KRALJA ALEKSANDARA (between the Federal Parliament and the monument of Vuk Karadzic): the leather things the footwear stores and booksellers’ shops.

Supermarkets

Two great supermarkets reachable by car in Novi Beograd. Recent and modern can help you at your important buying. Blue card accepted everywhere.

MAXI-DISCOUNT, Nehruova 61. This supermarket is in Novi Beograd on the road leading to Zemun. You could also take the buses 95 and 73 and go out at “Blok 63”. Open from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. on week days and to 4 a.m. on week ends. Wedged between two HLM tours, this new supermarket is well supplied, the prices are payable, and it is open every day. Ideal for your alimentary presents at coming back.

MERKATOR, Bulevar Umetnosti. Nearer to the centre of the town, but yet in Novi Beograd, this supermarket offers, as across roads, the food en passant to the clothes. As it has been situated in a new brilliant commercial centre, of the centre of the town, numerous parking places are at your disposal. Coming from the centre of the town, take Brankov most and turn to the left to the fourth boulevard. The prices are acceptable and the services numerous.

In the centre of the town there are no great supermarkets, but there are a lot of much smaller middle size objects. In the suburbs you will find some ”Maxi Discount” always practical because you can pay with the blue card. In the centre the “C-Markets” will do for little purchases. The most practical is that situated at the corner of the streets Brace Jugovica and Visnjiceva below the Square Studentski Trg.

The farmer markets

Many permanent markets open from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. offer the alimentary products of the season, but also a lot of clothes and artisan products Above all they are at any time full with a crowd of a great variety of colours and rural. Thus, don’t hesitate to go there to breathe in some fresh air between two museums.

Here is an eclectic choice, but those are the certain values.

ZELENI VENAC in the place of the same name (at the entrance to the town after the Brankov most)
A true little town with its little streets descending to the Sava.. Here are the best fruits an vegetables in all the capital to be found, but also there artisans there and many practical objects.

KALENIC, Maksim Gorki street (climb from Slavija toward the Vracar quarter)
Very nice little market typically Belgrade’s, with its booths and surrounded by cafes and well known restaurants.

ZEMUN The Square of Pobeda (leads you toward Danube – it is impossible to miss it)
On the bank of the Danube, more than a kilometre long, it is the largest market in the town. Near to the river, there is much fruit and vegetables, but there is also a lot of local products (cheese, the sweets, fish). Nearer to the town the products of artisans, clothes