Park of Friendship, New Belgrade

[1] The park is located in New Belgrade in the local community Ušće and it extends to a large green area from Hotel Yugoslavia along the Danube and the Sava River to Branko's Bridge.

The first preliminary design was done by engineer Vladeta Đorđević, but the final solution regarding the appearance and organization of park space is shown in the project called "Potez," which won first prize at the Yugoslav competition in 1965.

The Belgrade City Assembly and the committee on taking care of the construction and development of the park announced an all-Yugoslav competition.

[4] The specificity of the subject matter was a challenge to the authors since it treated the field of horticulture, not so frequent competition matter, and the position of the park among the most important government buildings, the Palace of the Federal Executive Council and the former building of the CK CPY (today BC Ušće), Museum of Contemporary Art and Hotel Yugoslavia.

Plane tree seedlings are placed at a distance of eight meters so that they could merge at a certain height of their growth and thus form a unique green series which also symbolizes of the connection of all nations through a common idea.

Although little has been done out of the original idea of the architect Pališaški,[7] specificity in the formation of a modern park is basically considered even today.

[8] The Eternal Flame memorial is located in the park and is dedicated to the military and civilian victims of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.

In this park, numerous officials and celebrities planted a tree as a sign of friendship, and among them were the following: Francois Mitterrand, Јоsip Broz Tito, Jawaharlal Nehru, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Queen Elizabeth II, Fidel Castro, Мuammar Gaddafi, Emperor Haile Selassie, Leonid Brezhnev, Mikhail Gorbachev, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Todor Živkov, Nicolae Ceausescu, Kim Il Sung, Indira Gandhi and others.

Sculpture Open Form (Flower) by Lidija Mišić
The sculpture Open Form (Flower) by Lidija Mišić, added in 1974. The Eternal Flame monument can be seen in the background