Šumice (Belgrade)

Šumice
Шумице
Central section of Šumice
Location	Voždovac, Belgrade
Area	180 ha (440 acres)
Status	urban forest

Šumice (Serbian Cyrillic: Шумице, pronounced [ʃûmit͡sɛ]) is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Voždovac. It is also the name of an park-forest within the neighbourhood.

Šumice is located in the south-eastern section of the hill of Pašino Brdo and in the northern section largely overlaps with the neighborhood of the same name. On the south it is bounded by the Ustanička street and on the east by the Vojislava Ilića street, both streets separating it from the neighborhood of Konjarnik. On the west, the park itself borders the neighborhood of Dušanovac.

The neighborhood was constructed in the late 1960s and early 1970s. A modern settlement, with lots of green areas, can roughly be divided in two parts: southern, with residential building, and northern with smaller, family houses and villas which were quite popular among Belgrade's celebrities in the 1980s. The population in 2011 was 6,348.

The main features in the neighborhood are:

Šumice originated in the 1950s. It was an effort to create the forested belt around the Belgrade (for example, Banjica Forest was created as a part of the same project).

The park is inhabited by hedgehogs and bats, but the main attraction in the park are the squirrels which often leave the park and climb on the trees in people's yards. Woodpeckers and blue tits, living in the park in the 1980s, are not seen anymore. By 2017 hedgehogs and squirrels also disappeared from the forest.