Belgrade – city of secrets

Belgrade – city of secrets

The four-in-one issue of the luxurious magazine “Beauteous Serbia” was published after two years of waiting. It represents a monograph on Belgrade and contains a promising title: “Belgrade – the city of secrets”.

A complete life of the City, built on the conjunction of two civilizations somewhere between Usce and Avala, is revolving on 1008 pages of the Magazine. All the years, all the events, all the heroes, everything worth memorizing and mentioning, everything that is appealing and photogenic, is deftly laid between the covers of this equally large and unusual book.

This is a Belgrade’s story on what was happening to it, what its dreams, hopes, fears were, what was hidden… until now. Now the biggest and the most important Belgrade book is issued.

This collective Belgrade narrator is helped by its loyal advocates and companions: writers, journalists, photographers, painters, bibliophiles, archivists, chroniclers, encyclopaedists, theologians, philosophers etc… and also the most responsible masons of this virtual urban-spirit cathedral converted into a book: advertising, design and photography professionals working in Apostrophe marketing company.

„Belgrade – the city of secrets” features the texts by: Momo Kapor, Svetlana and Vladimir Velmar-Janković, Jovan Ćirilov, Dragoslav Bokan, Mira Bobić-Mojsilović, Srđan Šaper, Dragan Jovanović-Danilov, Miljana Laketić, Libero Markoni, Miloš Crnjanski, Vladimir Pištalo, Ljubica Ćorović, Milan Kašanin, Bogdan Tirnanić... also Miodrag Janković, Dragan Ćirjanić, Predrag Milovanović, Vladimir Vukašinović, Bogdan Lubardić, Branislav Matić, Ljerka Opra, deacon Nenad Ilić, Sima Ćirković, Dmitar Tasić, Sofija Vuković, Milica Radosavljević, Dejan Đorić...

This luxurious monograph is printed in six passages and full color with partial UV lacquer, where some pages are printed on a special paper with blind embossing and hot foil stamping.

Limited, bibliography edition comprises 144 pages of authentic anthology of texts on Belgrade dating from Medieval period to contemporary period printed on aquarelle paper.