Palace of Serbia

This guide to the Palace of Serbia in New Belgrade goes back to a nationwide design competition in nineteen forty-seven, when Yugoslavia was still firmly in Moscow's camp and a Zagreb architect set out to build a home for the new federal government. It follows the volunteer brigades who poured the first concrete, and the politics of the Tito era that shaped every wall. Best heard standing back from the long white front, where you can take in the whole building at once.