Rise & Fall of a Nation Tour
From the dawn of socialist Yugoslavia to its collapse in the 1990s, this ride will have you experiencing the communist era of Belgrade to its fullest.
Rise & Fall of a Nation Tour
Optional
Extras
Airport Dropoff / Pickup
€30 per car
Can’t wait to discover Belgrade? Running out of time before leaving town? Or do you just want to surprise someone in true Yugo style? Get picked up or dropped off at the airport before or after your tour in a classic Zastava. Just let us know your take-off or arrival time when you book, and we'll be there with bells on.
Genex Tower Inside Visit
€15 pp / €20 single
Even if this most iconic of brutalist buildings in Belgrade is included in your tour, you should add this visit to an apartment inside. Our architect friends at Brutalist Belgrade created an exhibition space in this high-rise, where you can probe deeper into Belgrade’s brutalist architecture and enjoy the amazing views while you're up there.
Tito's Blue Train
€15 pp / €20 single
The term ‘hidden gem’ gets thrown around a lot nowadays, but in the case of Tito’s train it truly is apt. Hidden in a huge train depot in the industrial outskirts, a group of devoted mechanics keeps this marvel of socialist-strongman luxury in such a condition that a reanimated Marshal Tito would gladly use it tomorrow. As it happened, his last journey on this train was inside his coffin, wending his way across Yugoslavia in a farewell to the people. It's extremely difficult to see it on your own, so be sure to add an extra hour to discover Tito’s Blue Train.
Blok 61 / 62 / 63
€15 pp / €20 single
If you came to Belgrade for its impressive and sometimes crazy socialist architecture, then make sure to add a ride through the largest of its brutalist housing projects. You might spot the rows and rows of these concrete staircases from the plane when you fly in, but it's even more impressive when you're walking among these giants.
Rudo Towers Inside Visit
€15 pp / €20 single
Our only package featuring this imposing trio of towers is the Grand Architecture Tour, if only because they're a bit hard to reach. But if you've only been to the Genex Building—Belgrade's Western Gate—then your list really isn't yet complete, at least not until you've visited this Eastern Gate of the city. Take a trip with us to the top floor of this brutalist behemoth.
Explore the rise and fall of a vanished nation. This tour tells the story of Yugoslavia, from its WWII roots to the 1999 bombardment, through the lens of Belgrade’s streets. Experience daily life, politics, and the legacy of Tito from the backseat of a classic Yugoslav car. It’s raw history, experienced where it started and where it ended.
Start of the Tour
Things kick off at the Yugotour Headquarters at Karađorđeva 11. This is where you meet your driver and vintage Zastava automobile.
Note: Alternate pick-up and drop-off can be arranged while booking.
Staro Sajmište
A former Nazi concentration camp where the horrors of the Second World War are still tangible, but where you can also find a restaurant and even a gym nowadays. Essential to explain the founding of socialist Yugoslavia, but also a place where the seeds for its break-up 50 years later were planted.
Park of Friendship
This tree-lined lane is unremarkable until you get closer and notice the plaques with names of world leaders from the sixties and seventies: all those who visited Tito would plant a tree here as a symbol of friendship with Yugoslavia. Later, Slobodan Milošević installed an eternal flame that burned only until his ouster four months later.
SIV / Palace of Serbia
The political heart of Yugoslavia was SIV, the former government building of the federation. An impressive piece of architecture, next to the headquarters of the communist party. Nowadays it houses several government institutions, including Serbia’s secret police, so be careful while taking pictures!
Genex Tower
Also named the West Gate of Belgrade and one of the most impressive examples of Brutalist architecture in the world. The tallest building in Belgrade, with the only rotating restaurant in the region (although it never really rotated.) If you want to see the view from inside the tower, specify in your booking a visit to the architecture museum hidden in one of its apartments.
