Serbia in pictures

[M.harris]

there is no doubt your country is very beautifull keep up the good work plz post some cultural pics @proka89

 

[proka89]

 

[proka89]

Serbia’s Exit Festival has quickly established itself as one of Europe’s best dance-music destinations due to its expert curation and its unique venue—Novi Sad’s Petrovaradin Fortress. Filling the grounds surrounding this Medieval structure, Exit presents many of the world’s best DJs and producers speckled amongst equally huge rock acts; last year, Duran Duran and New Order shared billing with Addison Groove, Brodinski, TEED, and Jon Convex. Adding an extra fifth day for its 2013 edition this July, it’s safe to say that this year’s Exit Festival will be its most epic ever.

 

[proka89]

The Guča trumpet festival, also known as the Dragačevo Assembly (Serbian: Драгачевски сабор or Dragačevski sabor), is an annual brass band festival held in the town of Guča, near the city of Čačak, in the Dragačevo region of western Serbia. Guča is a three-hour bus journey from Belgrade.

600,000 visitors make their way to the town of 2,000 people every year, both from Serbia and abroad. Elimination heats earlier in the year mean only a few dozen bands get to compete. Guča's official festival is split into three parts. Friday's opening concert, Saturday night celebrations and Sunday's competition. Friday's concerts are held at the entrance to the official Guča Festival building. This event features previous winners, each band getting to play three tunes while folk dancers, all kitted out in bright knitting patterns, dance kolos and oros in front of a hyped-up audience.

An English party site, ThisIsTheLife.com, has named Guča the best festival in the world.

BBC - Travel - A touch of brass in Serbia : Music, Serbia

Serbia: time to blow the trumpet - Telegraph

What a blast! Serbia's Guca trumpet festival | Travel | guardian.co.uk

 

[BeyondHeretic]

beautiful Serbia , always malaysia

 

[proka89]

Belgrade Beer Fest™ is on average, the biggest beer festival in Southeastern Europe. Within 5 days, over 500.000 people visit the festival. The large number of visitors is mostly due to basic festival principles: free entrance, an exceptional music program, and a wide range of foreign and domestic beer brands.

Belgrade Beer Fest™ was founded in year 2003. In ten years of its existence over 5.5 million visitors could have seen more than 450 free music performances, tasted more than 90 beer brands and participated in numerous social campaigns.

The festival has received numerous awards. One of them is the recommendation of the British newspaper "The Independent", which ranked Belgrade Beer Fest™ in year 2005, among 20 world events that must be visited. Professor Dennis Wilcox, in his book, "PR Strategies and Tactics" which is being used in over 350 universities around the globe, stated Belgrade Beer Fest™ as a positive example of marketing and PR campaign. With regard to large social campaign "I choose to recycle", whose aims were the strengthening of the environmental awareness of citizens and the purchasing of recycling containers for Belgrade schools, marketing magazine "Taboo" awarded the Festival as the marketing event of the year 2009.

Owing to all the mentioned, Belgrade Beer Fest™ established itself as one of the most important segments of the tourist offer of Serbia, as well as a brand that promotes our country and strengthens its image.

 

[proka89]

Drina Regatta a fun-filled summer festival and whimsical river rafting race. Catch the Drina Regatta festival and join-in the locals with a rafting trip. Perfect for fun-loving travelers looking for a really special traditional local event. The "Drina Regatta" festival attracts crowds from far and wide who share a love for adventure, good music and cheerful people. The "regatta" itself is a whimsical day where everyone takes to the river on rafts, tubes, or anything that floats, and "race" down the lazy river. The event is in honor of the ferrymen of old who transported materials on the Drina River. In the old days, the river was nicknamed Zelenika and Zelenka due to the green color of its water. The river runs around 60 km in Serbia, and is one of the cleanest waterways in Serbia.

 

[proka89]

Paja Jovanović is one of the greatest Serbian painters. Uroš Predić, another great painter, is perhaps the only artist from the Serbian art Pantheon, who can match, to a certain degree, Paja Jovanović in terms of the technical excellence and the impact of his paintings on the Serbian people and their culture. (I will write about Uroš Predić in the near future).

Paja Jovanović was a greatly talented, virtuous painter, nationally and internationally very successful, rich, praised and adored, although later in his life his art was criticized and dismissed by some of the 20th century art critics as outdated, dry, staged, detached from real life and a sterile example of the Academic Realism. Whatever the point of view of the scholarly art establishment, the fact is that his art was loved by the people. It has been said that, during a certain period, there was almost no Serbian home that did not have a reproduction on the wall of one of Jovanović's famous pictures. (Nowadays the situation is quite different...)

In his long and prolific life, Paja Jovanovic created a large number of paintings, and although he also gained popularity as the remarkable portraitist, immortalizing many kings and queens, the politicians, the wealthy people and the artists, he is after all best known for his genre-compositions and works with the historical content. Although classified as the works of the Academic Realism, these depictions of the important moments from the national history, and the representations of the folkways, give more or less idealized, almost romantic, view of the history and the reality of life in the Balkans during the second part of the 19th century. Never the less, these images had a great appeal to the people of his time (they still do, as you will probably see for yourself while looking at the pictures below), and rooted themselves deeply within the national psyche. In a way they represented the powerful symbols of iconic, almost epic proportions, offering the guidelines to the national spirit that was, in those days, seeking its visual manifestation.
Serbian Migrations:

The Fencing lesson:

The Wounded Montenegrin:

Return of the Squad of Montenegrins from the Battle:

Fencing Game:

Falconer:

Takovo Uprising:

King Aleksandar Karadjordjević:

 

[proka89]

Some other pictures painted by him:

Restoring the Migration of the Serbs

 

[A1Kaid]

Really nice photo, looks Romanesque.

 

[proka89]

Really nice photo, looks Romanesque.

Smederevo fortress was modeled after byzantine cities, especially Constantinople. This is not so strange when it is known that despot Djuradj was in close connection to Byzantine court and that the building of Smederevo was managed by Byzantian George Kantakuzen, brother of despot’s wife Irene Kantakouzene.

Constantinnople

Smederevo

 

[proka89]

 

[Burger Boy]

Aeronautical museum Belgrade:

Saric 1:

Fizir FN:

Messerschmitt Bf 109Ga-2:

Hawker Hurricane Mk IV RP:

Supermarine Spitfire Mk Vc/Trop:

Yakovlev Yak-3:

Republic F-47D-40-RE Thunderbolt:

Ikarus S-49C:

Are these pictures from the museum that's attached to the airport that's named after Nicola Tesla?

Also, is it true that Serbs shot down american F-117 nighthawk during allied force in the 90s and that the parts are displayed in this museum?

 

[proka89]

Are these pictures from the museum that's attached to the airport that's named after Nicola Tesla?

Yes.

Also, is it true that Serbs shot down american F-117 nighthawk during allied force in the 90s and that the parts are displayed in this museum?

It is true.

F117:

F16:

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[honorfreedom]

This is amazing proka, placaju te iz ministarstva priznaj!

Let's help you proka,

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