National Library of Serbia
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The National Library of Serbia is the national library of Serbia, located in the capital city of Belgrade. It is the biggest library, and oldest institution in Serbia, one that was completely destroyed many times over in the last two centuries.
National Library of Serbia
A photograph of the former library building, bombed on 6 April 1941 on the order of Adolf Hitler himself. Around 500.000 volumes and all collections of the library were destroyed in one of the largest book bonfires in European history.
Kosančićev Venac
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Kosančićev Venac is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Stari Grad. It has been described as the most valuable and most representative veduta of Belgrade. In 1971, it has been declared a spatial cultural-historical unit and placed under legal protection.
Cathedral church
Kosančićev Venac street with its typical kaldrma cobblestone
Mika Alas's House
Destroyed in April 1941 German aerial bombardment of Belgrade during invasion of Yugoslavia, the National Library remains are shown here in 2008