Belgrade

Zemun is located the mouth of the river Sava into the Danube, in the southeast part of Srem, under the Srem plateau on the right bank of the Danube, across the Kalemegdan Park. The Old Zemun is the tourist soul of Belgrade, a picturesque part of the city with a special atmosphere and the untouched ambient values in the tourist metropolis Belgrade. Through history, Zemun changed its name. The Celts called it Taurunum, then follows Mallevilla (The Evil Town, in the script of Albert von Aachen, the chronicle writer from the First Crusade War), then Semlin, the Austrian name and Zimony, the Hungarian one. The settlement itself was founded by Scordisci, i.e. Celts, the Romans fortified here in the 1st century BC, the come the Slavs, the Hungarians and Byzantines had a war, the Turks destroyed it, and the Prince Eugene of Savoy took it from them and the Habsburg Monarchy ruled it the following two hundred years.

As the important crossroads, Belgrade and  Zemun had during the history firmly connected destiny. Traders, army commanders, scientists, artists and charlatans were coming there on the Danube and Sava, both from the West and East. According to the diverse inhabitants of Zemun, many of them found their home here.

Zemun, first of all its old part, is the best to see walking on the cobblestoned streets, passages under the lime tree, poplars and birches, on the curved staircases, dropping to the Great Market in the Downtown, the former center of the trading and cultural life and all this owing to the river harbor, which used to be where the Old Harbor Office is at present.

A form part of the tourist Zemun are also the Opera & Theater Madlennianum, The Homeland Museum, The Air Force House Gallery, the House of Karamata Family and the Summer Scene of Gardos.