White Bear Tavern

[1] However, Zemun developed completely independently from Belgrade for centuries and for the most part during the history two towns belonged to two different states.

The house is also depicted on the 1663 military map of Zemun, made by the German cartographer Heinrich Ottendorf.

[7] In the late 19th century, it was owned by Naum Nikolić, who then sold it to Todor Marić Gačula while in 1927 Marko Todorović Čanak bought the premises.

The kafana was noted for its cimer, a hanging tin plaque with an image of the standing bear.

As the town's house painters gathered in the kafana, celebrating their guild's festivities, they often painted the cimer, changing the color of the bear, into black, grey or white.

[1][6][10] The house is the only remaining example of the typical Balkan architecture in the Old Core of Zemun, from the period of Ottoman rule (16–17th century).

It is one-storey edifice, built in the bondruk manner, with timber construction filled with unbaked bricks.

One, which is directly accessible from the living room of the present tenants on the first floor, is used as the larder, since the temperature is constant throughout the year, at 17 °C (63 °F).

[1] In February 2020 it was announced that if government provides funds in April, the project of the full reconstruction will be drafted by the Institute for the Cultural Monuments Protection.