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New Developments in Belgrade
A capital transforming itself: new riverside districts, towers, bridges and transport, described factually by status. We do not publish prices or investment advice.
Our 23 favourites, listed A–Z · Updated October 2026
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Eagle Hills & the Republic of Serbia
Belgrade Waterfront: today to 2045
Belgrade Waterfront (Beograd na vodi) is the most ambitious urban project in Southeast Europe: a brand-new city centre on the banks of the Sava, bringing riverside parks, landmark architecture, luxury hotels, shopping, culture and thousands of new homes to the heart of Belgrade. A partnership between the Republic of Serbia and Abu Dhabi’s Eagle Hills worth about $6 billion, it is planned to grow until around 2045.
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Republic of Serbia
EXPO 2027 Belgrade
From 15 May to 15 August 2027 Belgrade hosts a Specialised Expo, the first world exposition in this part of Europe, on the theme “Play for Humanity: Sport and Music for All”.
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Beogradski metro i voz
Belgrade Metro: a century in the waiting
First dreamed of in 1923 and planned again and again for a hundred years, Belgrade’s metro is finally being built: the giant tunnel-boring machines are arriving from China, and the first driverless line, from Železnik through the city centre to the Danube, is due around 2030.
The full list: New Developments, A–Z
On the rivers 8
Waterfronts, marinas and new landmarks.
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Belgrade Waterfront
Belgrade Waterfront Marina & expansion
The next chapter of Belgrade Waterfront brings the city’s largest marina, an opera house under the great concrete dome of Hall 1 at the Belgrade Fair, a 120-metre tower and the Belgrade Eye Ferris wheel to the banks of the Sava.
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Eagle Hills & the Republic of Serbia
Belgrade Waterfront: today to 2045
Belgrade Waterfront (Beograd na vodi) is the most ambitious urban project in Southeast Europe: a brand-new city centre on the banks of the Sava, bringing riverside parks, landmark architecture, luxury hotels, shopping, culture and thousands of new homes to the heart of Belgrade. A partnership between the Republic of Serbia and Abu Dhabi’s Eagle Hills worth about $6 billion, it is planned to grow until around 2045.
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Republic of Serbia
EXPO 2027 Belgrade
From 15 May to 15 August 2027 Belgrade hosts a Specialised Expo, the first world exposition in this part of Europe, on the theme “Play for Humanity: Sport and Music for All”.
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Sebre
Marina Dorćol
A new riverside neighbourhood on the Danube embankment in Dorćol, a short walk from Kalemegdan, built around a marina and the restored 1930s power station Snaga i svetlost.
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Savski trg
Sava Square: Belgrade’s new front door
Where Belgrade’s first trains departed in 1884, a traffic-choked junction has become one of the city’s great public spaces: a green, pedestrian square in front of the old Main Station, watched over by the 23-metre monument to Stefan Nemanja and ringed by restored landmarks.
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Belgrade Waterfront Marina
The Belgrade Eye: a wheel over the Sava
A giant panoramic wheel is planned on the New Belgrade bank of the Sava, facing Belgrade Waterfront and the old town: the Belgrade Eye, an idea that has been turning for almost a decade and is now part of the plans for the riverside of the future.
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EXPO 2027 site
The National Stadium: a garden for 52,000
Serbia is building its first true national stadium: a circular ‘garden stadium’ for more than 52,000 fans, wrapped in planted terraces, at the heart of the EXPO 2027 site in Surčin, and already chosen to host the 2029 UEFA Europa League final.
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Ministry of Finance
Ušće Aquarium & Natural History Museum
A new aquarium and the first purpose-built home of Belgrade’s Natural History Museum are planned in Ušće Park, where the Sava meets the Danube, beside the Museum of Contemporary Art.
New Belgrade’s skyline 5
Towers and new districts.
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Delta Real Estate
Delta District: New Belgrade’s new skyline
Rising beside Sava Centar in the business heart of New Belgrade, Delta District brings a 100-metre residential tower, a Class A office building and the return of the InterContinental hotel brand to Belgrade, in one of the largest private developments in Serbia.
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Millennium Team
Hotel Jugoslavija site
For half a century Hotel Jugoslavija on the Danube was Belgrade’s grandest hotel, host to Queen Elizabeth II, Richard Nixon and the Apollo 11 astronauts. Demolished in 2025, its site is becoming a new luxury hotel, apartments and offices.
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From marsh to business district
New Belgrade: the modernist city reborn
Built from a marsh by young volunteers after 1948 as the showpiece capital of Yugoslavia, New Belgrade is being reborn: its modernist landmarks protected and restored, new glass towers rising beside them, and a new bus station, metro line and riverside opening up the city across the Sava.
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MPC Properties
Ušće Tower 2: the twin on the confluence
Fifty-six years after the first Ušće Tower rose over the meeting of the Sava and the Danube, its twin finally joined it in 2020, completing a pair of glass towers that frame one of the most famous views in Belgrade.
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PSP-Farman
West 65: New Belgrade reaches for the sky
A 155-metre glass tower rising over a new neighbourhood of homes, shops and gardens in Block 65, West 65 was briefly the tallest building in Serbia, and marked the moment New Belgrade began to build upwards again.
Bridges, rail and roads 10
Getting around the new Belgrade.
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City of Belgrade
Ada Huja Bridge: Belgrade’s third Danube crossing
For seventy years every plan for Belgrade has included a new bridge over the Danube at Ada Huja. Its design is now complete: a crossing of about 3.5 kilometres with three lanes each way and paths for walking and cycling, and the city’s third road bridge over the Danube, after the Pančevo and Pupin bridges.
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Ministry of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure
Airport & EXPO rail link from Zemun
A new 18.3 km railway from Zemun Polje to Nikola Tesla Airport, Surčin and the National Stadium station at the EXPO site will give Belgrade its first train to the airport.
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Serbian Railways
Belgrade Centre station: the fifty-year journey
Begun in the 1970s, abandoned, revived and finally finished half a century later, Belgrade Centre, known to every Belgrader as Prokop, is now the city’s main railway station, with a soaring glass hall and high-speed trains to Novi Sad and the Hungarian border.
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Beogradski metro i voz
Belgrade Metro: a century in the waiting
First dreamed of in 1923 and planned again and again for a hundred years, Belgrade’s metro is finally being built: the giant tunnel-boring machines are arriving from China, and the first driverless line, from Železnik through the city centre to the Danube, is due around 2030.
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Serbia, Hungary and China
Belgrade–Budapest high-speed railway
The rebuilt railway between Belgrade and Budapest, a joint project of Serbia, Hungary and China agreed in 2015, is bringing the two capitals within about three hours of each other.
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Roads of Serbia
Miloš Veliki motorway & the road to Montenegro
The Miloš Veliki motorway, named after Prince Miloš Obrenović, runs south-west from Belgrade through Čačak to Požega, and is the first part of a motorway planned to reach Montenegro and the Adriatic.
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City of Belgrade
New Sava Bridge
A new 420-metre steel arch bridge for cars, trams, cyclists and pedestrians is rising over the Sava where the Old Sava Bridge, the bridge saved by a schoolteacher in 1944, stood for more than 80 years.
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VINCI Airports & Air Serbia
Nikola Tesla Airport: Belgrade takes off
From a 1920s airfield on the plain of New Belgrade to a bright, rebuilt terminal handling almost nine million passengers a year, Belgrade’s airport has been transformed, and the city now has its sights on becoming the air hub of Southeast Europe.
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Belgrade Waterfront
Old Railway Bridge: new pedestrian bridge
Belgrade’s first railway bridge, opened in 1884 and rebuilt after two world wars, is being reborn as the Green Crossing: a pedestrian and cycle bridge with cafés, planted terraces and viewpoints over the Sava.
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Ministry of Culture
Serbian Historical Museum at the old Main Station
Belgrade’s grand old Main Railway Station on Sava Square, where Serbia’s railway age began in 1884, is being rebuilt as the new home of the Serbian Historical Museum and its more than 50,000 objects.
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