Novi Beograd

Novi Beograd was planned as early as 1943 as the new capital of post-war communist Yugoslavia, once a swampy no-man's land between Austria-Hungary and Ottoman Empire. All the important buildings of the new state were to stand there. But as early as 1948, construction stopped because of a dispute between the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. First, a student housing estate is built on the western edge of the new city in 1952, followed by the completion of the city's most striking building to this day, the Genex Tower (first photo), in 1980. Today, the city has more than 200,000 inhabitants and one of the highest property values in Serbia.