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🇷🇸 Serbia | Brutal Belgrade: I spent several cold, grey days walking through Belgrade in January 2025, and I’ve never felt a city quite like this before. The fog didn’t lift once — and somehow, that made it all the more powerful.
From the surreal silhouette of the Genex Tower to the sharp lines of the Toblerone building and the endless concrete plains of Blok 23 and 29… everything felt frozen in time. These brutal courtyards, the heavy stillness, the eerie beauty, it’s overwhelming in winter. I rode the old red Tatra trams across Novi Beograd, through wide, empty streets and past facades that seem to carry the weight of a different era. Every corner tells a piece of the Yugoslav story — of ambition, ideology, and architecture made for the people, now standing like monuments to something lost. Places like Vojvode Stepe 120, the Urban Institute, and those angular shapes near waterfront 25. May, Milan Gale Muškatirović felt like stepping into a dystopian dream. Cold, quiet, but weirdly comforting. Belgrade is, without a doubt, the most brutalist city I’ve ever explored. And in winter, without the sun, it reveals its soul in the most haunting and honest way. I hope you enjoy this new edit, my impressions from a truly unforgettable winter. I think this video is a special one with the classic travelproof_tjark cut and music. .
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Would you visit Belgrade in winter?

♬ Судно (Борис Рижий) – Molchat Doma