Beli dvor
The royal castle Beli Dvor ( Cyrillic Бели Двор, German the White Court ) in Belgrade is located on the highest hill of Dedinje .
history
The castle was built from 1934 by the architect Aleksandar Đorđević for King Alexander I Karađorđević and completed in 1937. Alexander I wanted, while he was residing in the Royal Palace on Dedinje , his own home for his later grown-up sons, which is why Beli dvor was intended as a prince's palace .
It served both Josip Broz Tito and Slobodan Milošević as a representative residence and is also one of them, in particular due to the negotiations during the crises in Bosnia and Kosovo between Richard Holbrooke , Madeleine Albright and Joschka Fischer with Slobodan Milošević, which were often held in Beli Dvor became known to the wider public. Since the political changes after October 5th, 2000, the castle is again in the possession of the former royal family .
The castle can be visited on weekends and houses a valuable collection of European painting from the late Gothic to the early modern period. Among the works are paintings by Eugène Fromentin , Simon Vouet , Nicolas Poussin , Sébastien Bourdon , a painting from Albrecht Altdorfer's circle , a painting from Rembrandt van Rijn's circle , Paolo Veronese , a painting from Breughel's circle , two paintings by Antonio Canaletto , Eugène Fromentin, Đura Jakšić , Steva Todorović , sculptures by Ivan Meštrović and Vlaho Bukovac .
During the government of Slobodan Milošević, the Grand Salon served from 1997 to 2000 as a representative reception location for foreign heads of government and high-ranking diplomats. The essential document to end the Kosovo war was also signed in the Beli Dvor .
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Coordinates: 44 ° 45 ′ 56.5 ″ N , 20 ° 27 ′ 12.1 ″ E