Monday, March 15, 2021

COME LIVE AT THE US EMBASSY


 These are the buildings (foreground, not the higher-risers in the back) of the former US Embassy in Belgrade. Years back a stipulation came into vigor that US embassies have to be a certain distance from the street, so its present location is much farther away and set back....surrounded by a seemingly impenetrable wall. Little chance of getting a photo of that.  I tried to find a photo online, but they are non-existent or else blurred out.  Sign of the times, maybe, but most other major embassies I googled have photos.

Anyway, now the old embassy is a luxury apartment building...

3 comments:

Stefan Jansson said...

A sad world we live in when you have to be so careful with an embassy building. Nice looking apartment.

William Kendall said...

A good use of the former embassy.

Tim S said...

Here's a photo of the current building from the U.S. Embassy Belgrade website. https://rs.usembassy.gov/embassy/belgrade/?fbclid=IwAR3m_wRq2hgy92aHpb_CVkYtgx90lWDQr_lcaXLjDs6cfsB3JD3vqZPU-QM

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