Belgrade is situated on the crossroad between East and West Europe, on the river mouth of Sava and Danube. There is no such place in the whole world where passion and European elegance are so naturally connected. Always on the road of war, expeditions from East to West and vice versa, so many times demolished and raised, Belgrade doesn’t have a style continuity and elegance similar to the European metropolis, and because of that the tourists that search good entertainment, domestic and international specialities will be satisfied with everything that they will find in this city that never sleeps.
Belgrade in brief
Geographic position
· southern Europe, the Balkan peninsula, western Balkans
· at the confluence of the rivers Sava and Danube, between the Pannonian Plain to the north and the hilly central region of Serbia known as Sumadija to the south
Geographical coordinates
· latitude north: 44049'14''
· longitude east: 20027'44''Average height above sea level: 116.75 m
Area: 322,268 ha
Climate:
· moderate continental
· mean annual air temperature: 11.70 C
· mean annual rainfall: 669.5 litres/m2
· mean atmospheric pressure: 1,001 millibars
· mean relative humidity: 69.5%Population: 1,732,400 (2005 figure)
Religious confessions: Orthodox Christian 90.68%, Islam 1.29%, Roman Catholic 1.03%, Protestant 0.24%, Jewish 0.03%, Atheist 3%, Unknown 2.02% (2002 census)
