Tickets? Check! Rooms? Check! Passport? Check! Belgrade guide? You can check that as well now! For all of you ready to fly off to the Serbian capital for the 53rd Eurovision Song Contest this May here is the first timer's guide to the city complete with everything from the best way to stop a taxi to a survival phrasebook.

Rastko Colja, a dedicated fan and friend of esctoday.com, has gone to great pains to compile a guide for Belgrade complete with information on transport, telephony, postal services, a guide to Belgrade's landmarks with full historical information and even as short phrase book. Particularly useful we found the directions and information on bus routes to get to the Euroclub and the Arena from all over the city.

You can download Rastko's guide to Belgrade here.

Here you can find an interactive map of Belgrade.

Esctoday.com would like to thank Rastko Colja for his amazing offer to our readers!


Thanks to Johnny Logan and Hold me now I fell in love with the Eurovision Song Contest, a love that's been going strong ever since with undiminished passion. My first memories date back to 1977 and the lyrics of Rock bottom, Dschinghis Khan and A ba ni bi are still engraved in my brain. I joined esctoday.com in 2006 as a junior editor after being invited by Barry Viniker, I soon became Senior Editor and during the 2007 contest in Helsinki I was appointed Head of Communications. Today I hold the post of Head of Human Resources and I am proud to be working with the best editorial team in the world.