Stari Grad (Serbian Cyrillic: Стари Град, pronounced [stâːriː ɡrâd]) is a municipality of the city of Belgrade.
Stari Grad occupies the ending ridge of Šumadija geological bar [self-published source].The cliff-like ridge, where the fortress of Kalemegdan is located, overlooks the Great War Island and the confluence of the Sava river into the Danube, and makes one of the most beautiful natural lookouts in Belgrade.
The area which Stari Grad covers is either simply styled "downtown" or by the names of the more established neighborhood which it overlaps: Two parts of Dorćol separated on social-difference and architecture basis, It spreads from the bank of Danube by the Kalemegdan fortress to the Republic Square also known as "The Horse".
Downtown Belgrade is most populated area which makes it the heart of the city, it spreads from Terazije down to Despot Stefan Boulevard.
[21] By the end of the 19th century, the neighborhood gradually developed along the central street and became fully urbanized, as a direct, eastern extension of the city's downtown.
Unlike Svetogorska, Hilandarska, as a side street, never became a commercial area, remaining residential with distinguished villas and buildings.
Other well-known residents include Antun Gustav Matoš, Milutin Bojić, Ivo Vojnović, and members of the Nušić family.
Architects like Milan Antonijević, Andra Stevanović, Stojan Titelbah, Stojan Veljković, Otto Lorenz and Momčilo Belobrk designed numerous buildings for brothers Antonijević, hockey player Milenko Materni, priest Đoka Cvetković (demolished in the mid 20-th century), merchant Nastas Savić (in 1937), shopkeeping Obradović family (demolished in the 1960s, to make room for electrical substation).
[21] The neighborhood remains a location of several important buildings which were declared cultural monuments and protected by law: Stari Grad is twinned with: