How diverse is the architecture in your country?
Posted by True-Blacksmith4235@reddit | AskBalkans | View on Reddit | 52 comments
In Serbia, architecture varies, depending on the region and its history (mainly whether it was part of Austro-Hungarian empire, or under Ottoman rule).
Belgrade alone has multiple architectural styles,-Art Nouveau (secession), socialist modernism and brutalism, Serbo-Byzantine style, Neoclassical style..
Belgrade 1-8,
Cities in northern Serbia, Vojvodina 9-15 (Subotica, Sremski Karlovci, Vršac, Zrenjanin, Sombor) ,
Užice 16,
Niš 17,
Novi Pazar 18,
Valjevo 19,
Pirot 20.
Usual-Package7120@reddit
Belgrade is awesome for this, even driving through belgrade, you can see the overlaps of history, every other building is a different style to the next, idk I find it super interesting when driving through the city, it's cool
True-Blacksmith4235@reddit (OP)
Thanks! That’s one way to look at it 😂
iadaci@reddit
Beautiful, Serbia has very diverse architecture. I love this type of posts!
LegitimateAd3567@reddit
Dude, have you been to Bucharest 😂 Joke aside, wonderful and beautiful city. I lived there for 12 years, grew up there. I love it more that I love Belgrade, where I come from.
True-Blacksmith4235@reddit (OP)
Thank you. I’ve been to Timisoara and Bucharest, and i loved them, and i love Art Nouveau the best.
SoulEkko@reddit
Then you're going to love Oradea.
vlaada7@reddit
That really looks stunning!
vlaada7@reddit
That really looks stunning!
True-Blacksmith4235@reddit (OP)
I would! Looks so beautiful. I think someone once wrote it’s Subotica on steroids.
SoulEkko@reddit
I made a follow-up thread and have accepted your challenge. 😁
Archaeopteryx111@reddit
You should go to Sibiu and Brasov at some point too.
ZihonCoirea@reddit
It’s called continuity.
Covekot1@reddit
For a small country us ours - a lot. From Byzantium churches to Ottoman mosques, from neoclassical city houses in Bitola to the vernacular overhanging white houses in Ohrid, from brutalism to the ugly faux baroque government buildings.
Kind-Setting8036@reddit
How diverse is the architecture in your country?
Türkiye: Yes
Syrmin@reddit
Where is 12 and 18? Look strange for Serbia...
SpiritedAddition8206@reddit
Completely random, some cities quite nice, others like Ankara are full of commie blocks. In general poor city planning just figure it out as you go mentality
treadbolt5@reddit
I like the Ankaran commie blocks. Its grim but iys an aesthetic
True-Blacksmith4235@reddit (OP)
Sounds familiar honestly
Magyaron@reddit
Now I really wonder where pic no. 12 is from, as I'm pretty sure it wasn't taken anywhere in Serbia. I guess it was meant to showcase the panorama of Vršac, but it's definitely not from there
milathebunny@reddit
It's Vršac
Intrepid-Bill-9789@reddit
Croatia is probably rating the highest in this metrics. Coasline being everything completly different then the inland on max.
Croatian coastline architecture was dominated by italian venetian styles while the inland was majority influenced by the austrian and hungarian.
Major contributer to this is also the availability of the materials for building. While the coastline is rich with stone with basically zero access to the timber inland was dominated by the timber and clay brick materials.
Coastline cities are dense, with narrow streets that are protecting population from the strong winds in the winter and hot summers creating shades during the baking summer afternoons, private places are sacred and people are living pretty much together with very little privacy. On the contrary cities and villages inland, mainly in slavonia and around the panonian plain are long, stretched along the main road with the private courtyards for each property.
True-Blacksmith4235@reddit (OP)
Agree. Dubrovnik for example looks very different from anywhere else I’ve been.
I can’t compare it to other Mediterranean cities influenced by Venetian style, like Kotor, because it’s a lot more monumental. But def different than inland, that has a heavy Austrian-Hungarian influence and Central European feel.
Slavonia streetscape sounds like Vojvodina.
Intrepid-Bill-9789@reddit
Dubrovnik was influenced by venice but not built by venice unlike other cities along the adriatic coast. Dubrovnik was a world for itself for centuries.
LenaLena93@reddit
No Belgrade Waterfront lol
vlaada7@reddit
Yes, Subotica is the most beautiful city in Serbia, imho, closely followed by Sombor and then the rest of Vojvodina, though I’m a bit biased there.😁
invalid95@reddit
Vojvodina has really good looking villages and cities, I dare to say Novi Sad is prettier than Belgrade for me.
vlaada7@reddit
Novi Sad definitely used to be prettier than Belgrade, though it has been changed quite a bit in the last 10-15 years. And not in a good way…🫤
invalid95@reddit
I know same as Belgrade, I want to spend a day or two in Novi sad and see it a little bit
True-Blacksmith4235@reddit (OP)
I didn’t put Novi Sad here, because a lot of cities/towns from Vojvodina are, but it is beautiful.
Although Belgrade has some not so pretty parts, it also has some very beautiful places.
invalid95@reddit
I agree. Belgrade as a whole is not a good looking city, but some streets, and districts can really be pretty
LegioXI89@reddit
I mean as a whole it is good looking but that's about it, it's not good looking city compared to Budapest or other big european cities because it was a military fort/settlement for most of his existence and it was demolished over 40 times but still, it is at least good looking objectively, nice architecture in the city center, 2 rivers, big boulevards etc
Many old buildings should be restored because communist didn't do any of that after city being demolished in ww2, instead they built those communist shitholes and made city uglier
True-Blacksmith4235@reddit (OP)
Sremski Karlovci is the answer 🤭.
vlaada7@reddit
As I said, I’m a bit biased there.😌
deviendrais@reddit
Ngl the Hungarians cooked some good stuff up in Subotica/Szabadka/Maria-Theresiopolis
Final-Nebula-7049@reddit
Extremely
Aytug4ufan@reddit
Architecture in Türkiye is like Ethnic origins of Brazillian people.
SoulEkko@reddit
Wonderful set, quite a lot of diversity! Where is #12 from?
amazingamy19@reddit
Vršac, Vojvodina.
SoulEkko@reddit
Thanks! Looks lovely and peaceful, I bet that fortress has a nice view over the town. Gonna have to visit at some point.
Motor_Papaya5415@reddit
It does have a great view, also there is a hiking park and a caffe on the hill, a pretty chill place for hikers. Also have a lunch at Dinar afterwards :D
amazingamy19@reddit
I’m not familiar with this fortress, but i know the city has a lot of vineyards and wineries if that’s your thing, and hills and “mountains” around, so the views are gorgeous.
Antique_Birthday6380@reddit
Yes, a lot. From the alpine architecture in Theth in the Albanian Alps to the Mediterranean architecture in Dhërmi in Albanian Riviera, Albania definitely has more architectural diversity than other Balkan countries, especially those inland.
amazingamy19@reddit
Where is Novi Sad lol
Prod_Meteor@reddit
The architecture in my country follows the awfullous style.
True-Blacksmith4235@reddit (OP)
I loved Thessaloniki. Athens was kinda all over the place, but it has Acropolis and other ancient sites.
It’s still legendary.
PersimmonTall8157@reddit
I would say Sarajevo is very diverse, a mix of ottoman, Austro-Hungarian and Yugoslav communist architecture.
True-Blacksmith4235@reddit (OP)
Sarajevo could actually be the most diverse.
Istar10n@reddit
Pretty diverse. Going from Bucharest to Transylvanian cities feels like going to another country. At least, in regards to historical centres, the thousands of communist era apartment buildings are really similar.
invalid95@reddit
Belgrade is sadly a definition of all over the place architecture, but makes sence, it was demolished around 40 times, plus 90s wild urbanisation and now again did a number on the variou styles
iadaci@reddit
Beautiful, very diverse! I love this type of posts.
Ujemegaz@reddit
Hora vertikale
Serious-Ad-5275@reddit
Yes