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Get to know Serbia's essentials in eight friendly questions. Everyone can play, young and old, and pick up something new along the way.
Welcome guest 0–3 · Fortress explorer 4–6 · Right at home in Serbia 7–8
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Belgrade's name means 'White City', and more than a million people live there. On hot summer days, crowds head to the lake beach at Ada Ciganlija, beside the Sava river, which is so popular that locals call it 'Belgrade's Sea'.
Photo: ZlatanJovanovic, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0.
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Serbians call their flag the trobojka, 'the tricolour': red at the top, blue in the middle and white at the bottom. In different versions, this tricolour has been Serbia's flag since 1839, and the one on official buildings also carries the national coat of arms.
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At weddings and other celebrations, kolo can be danced by just three people or by several dozen, who hold hands or each other's waists and keep their upper bodies almost still while their feet do the work. Serbia's kolo is on UNESCO's list of the world's intangible cultural heritage.
Photo: Sasa.mazinjanin, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
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Families roast big red peppers over a fire or in the oven, peel them by hand and cook them slowly for hours, then fill glass jars to last the winter. The name ajvar comes from a Turkish word for caviar, and the spread is loved all over the Balkans.
Photo: Off-shell, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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The airport has carried Nikola Tesla's name since 2006, and Belgrade also has a museum about him that keeps more than 160,000 of his original papers. The tesla, a unit scientists use to measure the strength of magnetic fields, is named after him too.
Photo: Napoleon Sarony, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
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In water polo, two teams of seven players try to throw a ball into each other's goal while treading water, usually in a pool so deep that they cannot touch the bottom. In 2016, Serbia's team held all five of the sport's biggest titles at the same time.
Photo: CARLOS ANTONIO AZEVEDO, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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The first festival, in 1961, had only four bands and about 2,500 listeners, but today hundreds of thousands of people come in early August to hear brass bands compete. Children's and youth bands even get their own contests.
Photo: svickova, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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In 1968, a group of young swimmers built the first hut on a rock in the Drina river, using planks the river itself had carried down, so they had somewhere to rest between swims. When the water carried the house off, the builders often chased it downstream by kayak and dragged it back, and today it is one of Serbia's most photographed sights.
Photo: Rasevic, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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