Stari Grad, Belgrade
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Stari Grad Стари Град |
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| Urban neighborhood and municipality | ||
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 Location of Stari Grad within the city of Belgrade |
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 Location of the city of Belgrade within Serbia |
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| Country |
 Serbia
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| City | Belgrade | |
| Status | Municipality | |
| Settlements | 1 | |
| Government | ||
| • Municipality president | Marko Bastać (DS) | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 7.0 km2 (2.7 sq mi) | |
| Population (2011) | ||
| • Total | 48,061 | |
| • Density | 6,900/km2 (18,000/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | |
| Postal code | 11000 | |
| Area code(s) | +381 11 | |
| license plates | BG | |
| Website | www.starigrad.org.rs | |
Stari Grad (Serbian Cyrillic: Стари Град, pronounced [stâːriː ɡrâd]) is an urban neighborhood and one of 17 city municipalities which constitute the city of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It encompasses some of the oldest sections of urban Belgrade, thus the name (‘’stari grad’’, Serbian for “old city”). Stari Grad is one of the three municipalities that occupy the very center of Belgrade, together with Savski Venac and Vračar.
The neighborhood of Stari Grad is not generally considered by the Belgraders as one single definitive neighborhood. Area which Stari Grad covers is either simply styled "downtown" or by the names of the more established neighborhood which it overlaps: Two parts of Dorćol separated on social-difference and architecture basis, It spreads from the bank of Danube by the Kalemegdan fortress to the Republic Square also known as "The Horse". Downtown Belgrade is most populated area which makes it the heart of the city, it spreads from Terazije down to Despot Stefan Boulevard. Tasmajdan neighborhood is along with Šipka the on the east side of Stari grad next to municipality of Palilula.
Despite some of the oldest sections of Belgrade belong to Stari Grad, the municipality itself is among the latest urban ones formed administratively. It was formed by the merger of the municipality of Skadarlija and part of the municipality of Terazije on January 1, 1957.
Recent Presidents of the municipality:
Stari Grad occupies the ending ridge of Šumadija geological bar. The cliff-like ridge, where the fortress of Kalemegdan is located, overlooks the Great War Island and the confluence of the Sava river into the Danube, and makes one of the most beautiful natural lookouts in Belgrade. With Novi Beograd, it is one of 2 municipalities of Belgrade (out of 17) which occupy the banks of both major rivers in Belgrade, the Sava and the Danube (Zemun was the third, but when the municipality of Surčin split, Zemun was left with the Danube, and Surčin with the Sava bank).
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