Novi Dvor
| Novi Dvor New Palace |
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| Нови Двор | |
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The New Palace - front view and main entrance
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| General information | |
| Architectural style |
Renaissance Revival architecture Baroque Revival architecture |
| Town or city | Belgrade |
| Country | Serbia |
| Construction started | 1911 |
| Completed | 1922 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Stojan Titelbah Momir Korunović |
Novi Dvor (Serbian Cyrillic: Нови Двор) meaning New Palace, was a royal residence of the Karađorđević dynasty of Serbia and later Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Today it is the seat of the President of Serbia. The palace is located on Andrićev Venac in Belgrade, Serbia, opposite Stari Dvor (Old Palace).
Built as a new palace for King Peter I Karađorđević, the foundation stone of Novi Dvor was laid down on 14 September 1911, on the site which formerly stood the residence of Prince Mihailo Obrenović III. Construction was delayed, first by the First Balkan War, then by the First World War - when the building site took direct hits from Austro-Hungarian gunfire - and the palace was not completed until 1922.
Peter I died in 1921 and it was his son, King Alexander I of Yugoslavia who was the first tenant, from 1922. Novi Dvor was the official palace of Yugoslavia until Alexander's assassination in Marseilles in 1934, after which the Royal Court was moved to Beli Dvor (White Palace) in Dedinje; Novi Dvor was converted into a museum and art gallery, and was damaged during the Second World War.
Between 1948 and 1950 Novi Dvor underwent substantial reconstruction to house the Executive Council and the People's Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Serbia. From 1974 the Novi Dvor had been used as an office for the Presidency of Serbia, a collective governing body, and since 1991 it has been the official seat of the President of Serbia.
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