cultural heritage

Tag: cultural property

Inheritance

07.December 2025 S. Ć.

Why is the state selling off Belgrade?

The state did not use the right of pre-emption, so the Palace of Albania was recently sold to a private individual. More recently, the same thing happened to the Genex Tower and the Old Sugar Mill

Lex specialis

21.November 2025 Sonja Ciric

Conservators of Serbia refuse to delete the General Staff from the register of cultural assets

Employees of the Republic and City Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments refuse to comply with the demands of lex specialists and delete the General Staff complex from the Central Register of Immovable Cultural Properties of the Republic of Serbia, even though they are threatened with dismissal. Apart from the heritage, they also defend the integrity of their institutions and their profession

General Staff - same monument, different packaging

16.May 2025. Bloomberg / Sonja Ciric

General Staff between Investments and Institutions: Counterfeits, Pressures and the Trump Hotel

While the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, says that the planned construction of Jared Kushner's hotel on the site of the General Staff is an "important project" and rejects allegations of falsification of documents, experts and the general public are concerned about the way in which they attempted to remove protection from one of the most significant buildings in Belgrade's modern history.

Metastasizing the tent in front of the Assembly

Beograd

26.April 2025. Sonja Ciric

Why don't the city authorities remove the umbrellas from Pioneer Park

The one who initiated and implemented the occupation of Pionirski Park and Bulevar Kralja Aleksandar with chadors violated the Law on the Protection of Cultural Property. Why are the authorities silent?

Inheritance

18.April 2025. Sonja Ciric

The proposal to revoke the protection status of the General Staff submitted in secret?

Goran Vasić, the acting director of the Republic Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments, sent without the knowledge of the employees a proposal to revoke the status of a cultural monument for the General Staff complex, they claim, and that is why they are asking those who put him in that place, the Government of Serbia, to replace him

Analyze

18.November 2024 Andrei Ivanji

What, on earth, will the BIA do in the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments

The progressive government increasingly loses all sense of proportion. Now she has sent BIA agents to intimidate the employees of the Republic Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments who believe that Vučić and his brothers are illegally demolishing the General Staff. Party repression is more and more exposed

Urbanism

16.November 2024 Sonja Ciric

Rušilački urbanism: Goodbye Belgrade

There isn't a day that goes by in Belgrade that a sign of his is not destroyed by the decision of the Serbian or city authorities. That's why the citizens of Belgrade these days go around the city and take photos of it, as a souvenir

General Staff

15.November 2024 Sonja Ciric

Serbian government: The General Staff can collapse

The Government of the Republic of Serbia made a decision on the termination of the status of a cultural property of the General Staff complex. Who cares what SANU, Evropa Nostra, the professional public and the like think. Because, as Seselj said, if Trump's son-in-law is willing to invest money and build a hotel there, why not give them

Endangered heritage

02.November 2024 S.Ć.

Evropa Nostra: The expansion of the road threatens the Belgrade fortress

On the Day of Mourning, on Saturday, work began on the extension of Vojvoda Bojović Boulevard in the area of the Belgrade Fortress, reports Evropa Nostra Serbia and asks the authorities to immediately stop the work.

Law enforcement

24.march 2024 S.Ć.

The General Staff is protected both as a cultural asset and as part of Kneza Miloša street

Both the public and the profession demand that the law be respected. Cultural property cannot be demolished, given away, sold, it can only be preserved in its original form. The same applies to the protected spatial unit, Kneza Miloša Street, to which the General Staff belongs

Inheritance

19.march 2024 S.Ć.

Giving away the General Staff is against the law

Six years after it was damaged in the NATO bombing, the complex of buildings of the General Staff was declared a cultural asset. Since then, attempts to overcome this obstacle and turn the General Staff into something profitable have not stopped

Beograd

13.December 2023 S.Ć.

Demolition of Ložionica under the guise of reconstruction

After the building of the Old Post Office, another cultural property will be demolished - Ložionica below Mostarska petlje, in order to create a new space for the commercial facilities of Belgrade on the water

Society

15.July 2023 Sonja Ciric

Someone wants to buy part of Spasić's endowment

Although the court verdict states that the entire building at Knez Mihailova 33 is state property, the cadastre states that the owner of the two devices is "Jugoelektro", a failed company. Based on that, the Geodetic Institute made a decision in their favor. There is a danger that state property will be sold to powerful individuals, the Endowment says

Beograd

07.May 2023. S.Ć.

The House of Writers is collapsing: the City shifts the problem to the Republic, and the latter to the City

For three weeks, the mayor of Belgrade has not responded to the requests of the associations working in France 7, a building that is a cultural asset, to prevent its collapse. The owner of the building is the Republic, and the user is the City

In the new issue

06.August 2022 Sonja Ciric

Lawlessness and heritage: Who destroyed Usek

No one mentions who the investor is, for whom the terms Neolithic, cultural heritage and the law mean nothing, and who believes that he is allowed to build a building on an archaeological site. No one even mentions whether, if he is ever exposed, he will be held accountable for the irreparable harm he has done.

News

29.January 2022 S.Ć.

Irresponsible construction in Belgrade: Cerak under attack by investors

Cerak Vinogradi settlement is the first ecological settlement in Belgrade. In 2019, it was declared a cultural property of the Republic of Serbia and is one of three protected residential areas of contemporary architecture in Europe. The architecture of Cerak is part of the permanent exhibition of the collection of the Museum of Modern Art MoMa in New York. Now it is threatened by investor danger