Viline Vode

Viline Vode
Country	Serbia
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)

Viline Vode (Serbian Cyrillic: Вилине Воде) is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Palilula.

Viline Vode is located on the right bank of the Danube, stretching from under the Pančevački most bridge to the west. It borders the neighborhoods of Stari Grad on the west, Ada Huja and Deponija on the east and Bogoslovija on the south.

Neighborhood is named after the former numerous hot springs on the bank of the Danube as Viline Vode is Serbian for fairy waters. Originally, the western border of the neighborhood was the Church of St. Alexander Nevsky. The springs were capped when the railway and the "Beograd-Dunav" station were built in the mid 1930's. The oldest industrial building in Belgrade is located in Viline Vode. It was projected by Miloš Savčić as an administrative building for the nearby slaughterhouse. Later, it was adapted into the hotel which was oddly named "Klanica" (Serbian for slaughterhouse). In the 1980s ambitious plans were developed for Viline Vode which were supposed to transform the neighborhood from industrial into the wealthy residential one with blocks of villas and small residential buildings. City authorities claimed it will be Belgrade's Santa Barbara but the idea was completely dropped and neighborhood was left as it was.

Viline Vode is one of few Belgrade's neighborhoods that are entirely industrial. Among many such facilities it comprises TEMPO cash-and-carry center, several gravel and sand extracting companies on the Danube's bank, Beograd put, Centroprom, Martez, Tehnohemija, Jugopapir, Duga, Avala cardboard factory, Balkan, Keprom, eastern part of the Port of Belgrade and the railway station Beograd-Dunav.

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