The New Cemetery of Belgrade (Belgrade, Serbia)

One of the rare urban, civilian cemeteries comprising six foreign military cemeteries from WWI and WWII: Austro-Hungarian, French, Italian, British, Bulgarian and Russian.

About the cemetery

The New Cemetery in Belgrade established 1886, was among the first cemeteries in Serbia built in compliance with the
urban planning principles. It is owing the existence to the initiative of Serbian surgeon, writer, politician, intellectual and
Mayor of Belgrade, Vladan Djordjevic. The cemetery was designed upon the patterns of contemporary European
cemeteries, but significant influence of Neo-Byzantine and Serbo-Byzantine styles may be noticed throughout the
cemetery.

Starting from the modest 2 hectares, the New Cemetery in Belgrade is now encompassing the total area of almost 31
hectares and is the eternal resting place of more than 350.000 people, while preserving around 70.000 burial places, 37
family chapels, 6 foreign military cemeteries from WWI and WWII, including two specialized areas intended for burials of
distinguished individuals, not to mention almost 1500 sculptures, made by more than 130 exceptional local and
international sculptors.

In a view of its significant memorial, cultural, historical and artistic values and considerable number of prominent figures
buried there, in 1983 the New Cemetery in Belgrade was registered within the Central Register of Cultural Heritage of
the Republic of Serbia, as the Cultural Heritage of Great Importance. Recognized as an Open-Air Museum due to its
historical and memorial resources, its refinement level and artistic achievements, but also as an evidence of the
intangible cultural heritage, it acquired its place among prestigious members of the Association of Significant Cemeteries
in Europe (ASCE) in 2004, and is a part of the European Cemeteries Route since 2010.

For nearly one and a half century, this precious and in so many ways distinctive architectural and symbolic area of
Belgrade kept the memory on countless authentic Serbian people. As an omnipresent chronicler of the city and the
country, it mirrors the fate of the entire nation.