Park Ušće (Belgrade)
Serbia and Montenegro /
Central Serbia /
Borca /
Belgrade
World
/ Serbia and Montenegro
/ Central Serbia
/ Borca
, 5 km from center (Борча)
World / Serbia / Grad Beograd
park, green area
Ušće (Serbian Cyrillic: Ушће- refers to confluence of the Sava and Danube) is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Novi Beograd.
Ušće is located on the mouth of the Sava river into the Danube, thus the name (ušće is Serbian for river mouth). It occupies Novi Beograd's Blocks 10, 13, 14, 15 and 16 on the Sava's left and the Danube's right bank, covering a tip of land that overlooks the islands of Malo Ratno Ostrvo and Veliko Ratno Ostrvo to the north and the old core of Belgrade, the fortress of Kalemegdan to the west. Ušće borders the neighborhoods of Staro Sajmište and Savograd on the south. As a compact grassy and forested area it stretches along the bank of the Danube into the Block 10, to the Zemun municipality and the "Yugoslavia Hotel".
Like all of Novi Beograd, Ušće is flat, and without buildings to hide that fact like in the rest of the municipality, that is quite obvious here. With only three buildings and several smaller edifices, Ušće is the least urbanized section of Novi Beograd but some residential blocks are administratively attached to the local community of the same name, which had the population of 6,623 in 2002. Ušće is a vast grassy and forested area (2,5 km x 1 km) along the river banks. As such, it is used by many Belgraders as a recreational area or as a place for organizing political gatherings or musical concerts. However, many areas are not cultivated, but left to grow wild. During the high levels of the Danube and the Sava, bank areas are always flooded.
Ušće has only three buildings, but two of them are monumental. One is the Palace of the Serbia. Another monumental building is the Ušće Tower, with 134 m of height the tallest building in the Balkans. Twin tower Ušće 2 will be finished by 2011. Third important building is the Museum of Contemporary Art, close to Sava river's left bank.
Other facilities in the neighborhood are several restaurants along the river banks and the Park of Friendship (Serbian: Парк пријатељства), where during the Communist rule of Yugo slavia by Josip Broz Tito, many world politicians and dignitaries used to plant a tree when they visited Belgrade. Park has been in very bad shape lately as a result of little to no maintenance.
Sava's left bank contains numerous barges (in Serbian called splav or сплав), which since the early 1990s became center of the famed Belgrade's night life.
On July 14, 2007 the Rolling Stones played a concert here, the spectacular 2-hour show in front of 65,000 was part of their A Bigger Bang Tour.
On August 24, 2009, Madonna played Ušće in front of the 40,000-strong crowd as part of the second leg of her Sticky & Sweet Tour.
Ušće is located on the mouth of the Sava river into the Danube, thus the name (ušće is Serbian for river mouth). It occupies Novi Beograd's Blocks 10, 13, 14, 15 and 16 on the Sava's left and the Danube's right bank, covering a tip of land that overlooks the islands of Malo Ratno Ostrvo and Veliko Ratno Ostrvo to the north and the old core of Belgrade, the fortress of Kalemegdan to the west. Ušće borders the neighborhoods of Staro Sajmište and Savograd on the south. As a compact grassy and forested area it stretches along the bank of the Danube into the Block 10, to the Zemun municipality and the "Yugoslavia Hotel".
Like all of Novi Beograd, Ušće is flat, and without buildings to hide that fact like in the rest of the municipality, that is quite obvious here. With only three buildings and several smaller edifices, Ušće is the least urbanized section of Novi Beograd but some residential blocks are administratively attached to the local community of the same name, which had the population of 6,623 in 2002. Ušće is a vast grassy and forested area (2,5 km x 1 km) along the river banks. As such, it is used by many Belgraders as a recreational area or as a place for organizing political gatherings or musical concerts. However, many areas are not cultivated, but left to grow wild. During the high levels of the Danube and the Sava, bank areas are always flooded.
Ušće has only three buildings, but two of them are monumental. One is the Palace of the Serbia. Another monumental building is the Ušće Tower, with 134 m of height the tallest building in the Balkans. Twin tower Ušće 2 will be finished by 2011. Third important building is the Museum of Contemporary Art, close to Sava river's left bank.
Other facilities in the neighborhood are several restaurants along the river banks and the Park of Friendship (Serbian: Парк пријатељства), where during the Communist rule of Yugo slavia by Josip Broz Tito, many world politicians and dignitaries used to plant a tree when they visited Belgrade. Park has been in very bad shape lately as a result of little to no maintenance.
Sava's left bank contains numerous barges (in Serbian called splav or сплав), which since the early 1990s became center of the famed Belgrade's night life.
On July 14, 2007 the Rolling Stones played a concert here, the spectacular 2-hour show in front of 65,000 was part of their A Bigger Bang Tour.
On August 24, 2009, Madonna played Ušće in front of the 40,000-strong crowd as part of the second leg of her Sticky & Sweet Tour.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ušće#Park_Ušće
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 44°49'17"N 20°25'59"E
- Ovčanska ada 5.4 km
- Island "Heron" 6.5 km
- Borčanska ada 17 km
- Lipovica forest 18 km
- Široka bara 22 km
- Profili 30 km
- Kosmaj 37 km
- Special Nature Reserve "Obedska pond" 51 km
- Maljen mountain 86 km
- Povlen Mountain 91 km
- Great War Island 1.2 km
- MZ Staro Sajmishte 1.4 km
- MZ Akademija 1.6 km
- MZ Ikarus 1.6 km
- MZ Gazela 1.7 km
- MZ Savski Kej 2.5 km
- New Belgrade 4.2 km
- Savski Venac 4.3 km
- Zemun 11 km
- Palilula 13 km