Beli dvor

The Royal Castle Beli Dvor (Serbian Cyrillic Бели Двор, the White German court ) in Belgrade is located on the highest hill of Dedinje.

History

The castle was built in 1936 by architect Aleksandar Djordjevic for King Alexander I Karadjordjević. Alexander I wanted while he resided in the Royal Castle on the Dedinje own home for his later adult sons, so Beli dvor was intended as Prince Castle.

It served both Josip Broz Tito and Slobodan Milošević as a representative residence and is in particular through the negotiations during the crises in Bosnia and Kosovo between Richard Holbrooke, Madeleine Albright and Joschka Fischer with Slobodan Milošević, which were often held at Beli Dvor, also a known wider public. Since the political changes after 5 October 2000, the castle is again in 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 period up to early modernism. Among the works are paintings by Eugène Fromentin, Simon Vouet, Nicolas Poussin, Sebastien Bourdon, a painting by Albrecht Altdorfer from the environment, a painting from Rembrandt van Rijn's environment, Paolo Veronese, a painting from the environment Breughel, two paintings Antonio Canaletto, Eugène Fromentin, Đura Jakšić, Steva Todorovic, Ivan Mestrovic's sculptures and Blaise Bukovacs.

During the reign of Slobodan Milošević the Large salon served from 1997-2000 as a representative of reception for foreign leaders and senior diplomats. In Beli Dvor also the essential document for ending the Kosovo war was signed.