85 years of the Belgrade Fair

When, on 6 June, 1937, on the left bank of the Sava river, on the marshland right next to the newly built King Alexander Bridge that connected Belgrade and Zemun, the foundation stone for the fair exhibition area, known today as the Old Fairground, was laid, few expected that already in the autumn of the same year, the first exhibition would be held there on an area of 17,000 square meters in 26 pavilions of different purposes