Swimming here doesn't stop when summer ends: the city's sports centers run indoor public sessions all year, and from June the outdoor pools fill with families escaping the heat. These are public sports-center pools, with lap lanes, shallow kids' pools, swim schools and sun loungers, at day-ticket prices. Here's what we checked, from the Olympic indoor pool at Tašmajdan to the geysers and toddler pool at 25. Maj.
Tašmajdan is a public swimming center with two big pools. The indoor pool has Olympic dimensions and hosts recreational swimming, a kids' swimming school and aqua fitness. The outdoor pool, open in summer, measures 50 by 20 meters, with stands for 2,000 and sun loungers and shades for hire.
The outdoor pool is 2.2 to 5 meters deep, so it suits confident swimmers.
A public sports center in Dorćol with three outdoor pools for summer: a 2 m deep Olympic pool, a 1.2 m recreational pool with a mushroom fountain, wall and central geysers, and a kids' pool 20 cm deep with a rubber floor. From September to June the indoor 50 m Olympic pool opens for public sessions. A small 30° pool hosts the swim school.
The 11 April sports and recreation center, run by Sports Center Novi Beograd, has six pools. Indoors, the Vlaho Orlić complex has a 50 m pool, a 25 m pool and an 11 m learner pool, plus a parents' room with WiFi overlooking children's training.
In summer, three outdoor pools open: a shallow paddling pool, a school pool and an Olympic pool, with loungers and umbrellas on the deck.
An open-air summer pool complex at the Sports Center Košutnjak, run by Serbia's Institute for Sport and Sports Medicine. The headline pool is the Olympic one.
The complex sits inside Košutnjak, a park-forest that belongs to the largest stretch of green right next to the built-up city.
The outdoor pools at Sports Center Olimp were rebuilt as a summer swimming spot, with rows of sunbeds and room for about 2,500 swimmers. Lifeguards and an on-duty doctor are there all day, and on hot summer evenings the pools open again for night swimming.
The wider sports center also has seven tennis courts and halls for futsal and martial arts.
The Banjica pools belong to the Voždovac sports center, with an indoor pool hall and outdoor pools in a complex shared with a stadium, sports hall and tennis courts. It is the home pool of water polo club Partizan, which runs a water polo school for kids here.
The buildings are old and the main indoor pool has been out of use; the city has announced a rebuild.
Swimming here doesn't stop when summer ends: the city's sports centers run indoor public sessions all year, and from June the outdoor pools fill with families escaping the heat. These are public sports-center pools, with lap lanes, shallow kids' pools, swim schools and sun loungers, at day-ticket prices. Here's what we checked, from the Olympic indoor pool at Tašmajdan to the geysers and toddler pool at 25. Maj.
Tašmajdan is a public swimming center with two big pools. The indoor pool has Olympic dimensions and hosts recreational swimming, a kids' swimming school and aqua fitness. The outdoor pool, open in summer, measures 50 by 20 meters, with stands for 2,000 and sun loungers and shades for hire.
The outdoor pool is 2.2 to 5 meters deep, so it suits confident swimmers.
A public sports center in Dorćol with three outdoor pools for summer: a 2 m deep Olympic pool, a 1.2 m recreational pool with a mushroom fountain, wall and central geysers, and a kids' pool 20 cm deep with a rubber floor. From September to June the indoor 50 m Olympic pool opens for public sessions. A small 30° pool hosts the swim school.
The 11 April sports and recreation center, run by Sports Center Novi Beograd, has six pools. Indoors, the Vlaho Orlić complex has a 50 m pool, a 25 m pool and an 11 m learner pool, plus a parents' room with WiFi overlooking children's training.
In summer, three outdoor pools open: a shallow paddling pool, a school pool and an Olympic pool, with loungers and umbrellas on the deck.
An open-air summer pool complex at the Sports Center Košutnjak, run by Serbia's Institute for Sport and Sports Medicine. The headline pool is the Olympic one.
The complex sits inside Košutnjak, a park-forest that belongs to the largest stretch of green right next to the built-up city.
The outdoor pools at Sports Center Olimp were rebuilt as a summer swimming spot, with rows of sunbeds and room for about 2,500 swimmers. Lifeguards and an on-duty doctor are there all day, and on hot summer evenings the pools open again for night swimming.
The wider sports center also has seven tennis courts and halls for futsal and martial arts.
The Banjica pools belong to the Voždovac sports center, with an indoor pool hall and outdoor pools in a complex shared with a stadium, sports hall and tennis courts. It is the home pool of water polo club Partizan, which runs a water polo school for kids here.
The buildings are old and the main indoor pool has been out of use; the city has announced a rebuild.
