Zemun feels like a small Danube town tucked inside Belgrade, with cobbled lanes up to Gardoš Tower and a long riverside walk below. We pulled together the places and plans here that work with kids: open-air spots by the water, indoor fallbacks for wet days, and shows made for young audiences.
Zemunska bajka (Zemun Fairy Tale) turns Veliki trg, the main square of old Zemun, into a winter meeting place for the holiday season. This is its second edition, with a bigger and more varied program than the first.
Kids can skate on the outdoor ice rink, join children's workshops and catch music and entertainment shows. It suits families with kids of any age looking for an easy, festive drop-in outing.
Lido is a small sandy beach on the northern tip of Great War Island, the protected river island where the Sava meets the Danube. Each summer the army lays a pontoon bridge, about 345 meters long, across an arm of the Danube from the Zemun quay, and visitors walk over to the island.
On the sand there are courts for beach sports and a few restaurants.
LOL is a 2,000 m² indoor play center. A 190 m² jump arena has 25 trampolines and a foam pit, and four big slides fill the middle, one ridden on a rubber ring. There is also a laser tag arena, a rainbow net, a soft-floor court for football and basketball, and a three-level maze for toddlers. Parents can watch from the café at the front.
Pinokio is Belgrade's only puppet theater, founded in 1972 as a traveling company and still touring today. Its repertoire of more than 30 shows draws on classic fairy tales, myths, legends and epic poetry as well as new plays, mixing puppetry with shadow theater and live actors.
The program runs from a short show made for babies to fairy tales such as Pinocchio, Snow White and Cinderella.
Zemunski kej is a riverside promenade that runs for kilometers along the Danube. Along the way are cafés on moored barges, restaurants, an amusement park and the former Hotel Jugoslavija, once the city's largest hotel. Kej Oslobođenja park sits on the quay itself.
In summer, a seasonal pontoon bridge links Zemun to Great War Island, and the Leto na Keju festival holds events by the river.
Gardoš Tower is a 36-meter brick and stone lookout built in 1896, standing inside the ruins of the medieval Zemun Fortress on Gardoš hill. Inside, vertical staircases climb past an art gallery to a balcony viewpoint over the red roofs of Zemun and the Danube.
Kids can explore the crumbling fortress corner towers around the base, and locals still call it the Tower of John Hunyadi.
Zemun feels like a small Danube town tucked inside Belgrade, with cobbled lanes up to Gardoš Tower and a long riverside walk below. We pulled together the places and plans here that work with kids: open-air spots by the water, indoor fallbacks for wet days, and shows made for young audiences.
Zemunska bajka (Zemun Fairy Tale) turns Veliki trg, the main square of old Zemun, into a winter meeting place for the holiday season. This is its second edition, with a bigger and more varied program than the first.
Kids can skate on the outdoor ice rink, join children's workshops and catch music and entertainment shows. It suits families with kids of any age looking for an easy, festive drop-in outing.
Lido is a small sandy beach on the northern tip of Great War Island, the protected river island where the Sava meets the Danube. Each summer the army lays a pontoon bridge, about 345 meters long, across an arm of the Danube from the Zemun quay, and visitors walk over to the island.
On the sand there are courts for beach sports and a few restaurants.
LOL is a 2,000 m² indoor play center. A 190 m² jump arena has 25 trampolines and a foam pit, and four big slides fill the middle, one ridden on a rubber ring. There is also a laser tag arena, a rainbow net, a soft-floor court for football and basketball, and a three-level maze for toddlers. Parents can watch from the café at the front.
Pinokio is Belgrade's only puppet theater, founded in 1972 as a traveling company and still touring today. Its repertoire of more than 30 shows draws on classic fairy tales, myths, legends and epic poetry as well as new plays, mixing puppetry with shadow theater and live actors.
The program runs from a short show made for babies to fairy tales such as Pinocchio, Snow White and Cinderella.
Zemunski kej is a riverside promenade that runs for kilometers along the Danube. Along the way are cafés on moored barges, restaurants, an amusement park and the former Hotel Jugoslavija, once the city's largest hotel. Kej Oslobođenja park sits on the quay itself.
In summer, a seasonal pontoon bridge links Zemun to Great War Island, and the Leto na Keju festival holds events by the river.
Gardoš Tower is a 36-meter brick and stone lookout built in 1896, standing inside the ruins of the medieval Zemun Fortress on Gardoš hill. Inside, vertical staircases climb past an art gallery to a balcony viewpoint over the red roofs of Zemun and the Danube.
Kids can explore the crumbling fortress corner towers around the base, and locals still call it the Tower of John Hunyadi.
