- Viline Vode
Viline Vode (Serbian
Cyrillic : Вилине Воде) is an urban neighborhood ofBelgrade , the capital ofSerbia . It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Palilula.Location
Viline Vode is located on the right bank of the
Danube , stretching from under the "Pančevački most" bridge to the west. It borders the neighborhoods of Stari Grad on the west,Ada Huja and Deponija on the east andBogoslovija on the south.History
Neighborhood is named after the former numerous hot springs on the bank of the Danube as Viline Vode is Serbian for "fairy waters". In the 1980s ambitious plans were developed for Viline Vode which were suppose to transform the neighborhood from industrial into the wealthy residential one with blocks of
villa s and small residential buildings. City authorities claimed it will be "Belgrade's Santa Barbara" but the idea was completely dropped and neighborhood was left as it was.Characteristics
Viline Vode is one of few Belgrade's neighborhoods that are entirely industrial. Among many such facilities it comprises "TEMPO" cash-and-carry center, several gravel and sand extracting companies on the Danube's bank, "Beograd put", "Centroprom", "Martez", "Tehnohemija", "Jugopapir", "Duga", "Avala" cardboard factory, "Balkan", eastern part of the
Port of Belgrade and the railway station "Beograd-Dunav".References
* "Beograd - plan grada"; M@gic M@p, 2006; ISBN 86-83501-53-1
* "Beograd - plan i vodič"; Geokarta, 1999; ISBN 86-459-0006-8
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