Skadarlija

Skadarlija , in Serb Cyrillic Sr Скадарлија, is a street and a district of Belgrade, the capital of the Serbia. Skadarlija is located in the municipality of Stari Grad. In 2002, the district counted: 5942 inhabitants.

The district of Skadarlija is generally regarded as the Bohemian district of the Serb capital, a little with the manner of Montmartre to Paris.

Localization

The district of Skadarlija is located at the North-East of the Place of the Republic and extends around the street from the same name. The street Skadarlija is also called street Skadarska .

History

The history of Skadarlija began in the years 1830, with the installation of Roms in the abandoned zones opposite the ramparts of the city. In 1854, the plan of Belgrade shows that the provisional shelters had been replaced by brick buildings in which craftsmen, merchants and small employees had settled. The whole of the district was called the " district tzigane" until in 1872, when the street was named Skadarska ulica , the " street of Skadar" , according to the name of the town of Skadar (today in Albania); this name is still the official name of the street.

Skadarlija started to acquire its Bohemian character at the end of the 19th century and, particularly, in 1901, when inn Dardaneli (“Dardanelles”) celebrates it was demolished and that its customers, of the writers and the actors, attended the inns of the district. Among the famous inns, one can quote Tri will šešira (“three hats”), Dva jelena (“two stags”), Zlatni bokal (“the gold chalice”), which exist still ajourd' today. New restaurants opened then as the Ima dana (“days ago”), the Skadarlija (demolished in 2006), the Dva bleated goluba (“two white doves”) etc

The Tri will šešira accommodated famous hosts like Jimi Hendrix, George H.W. Bush, Tito, the king of Spain Juan Carlos, Anatoly Karpov, Sandro Pertini etc

Đura Jakšić, a famous painter and Serb writer , lived and died in Skadarlija. Its house became a meeting room for the poets who take part in the Evenings of Skadarlija; the restoration of the places started in 1968, according to a project of the architect Uglješa Bogunović (born in 1922), of the painter and writer Zuko Džumhur (1921-1989), of the painter Mario Maskareli (1918-1996,), of the sculptor woman Milica Ribnikar-Bogunović (born in 1931) etc

Today

Skadarlija constitutes an attraction for the tourists. One finds there restaurants famous and others, more popular, which offer Serb kitchen, and particularly of the roasted meat been useful with beer. The famous hotel the Small Sparrow is in the district; one finds there also art galleries, antique dealers, souvenir shops… One can hear gypsy music there and to see actors, equipped in traditional Serb costume, improvise there in the street.

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