Lešće (Serbian Cyrillic: Лешће) is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia and one of the city's largest cemeteries.
Location
editLešće is located in Belgrade's municipality of Palilula, with the small, southeastern part belonging to the municipality of Zvezdara. It is situated in the eastern part of the Višnjica Field, along the Slanci Road (Slanački put) as the southern extension of the neighborhood of Višnjička Banja. To the east, Lešće stretches to the Belgrade's suburban settlement of Slanci and further to Veliko Selo. A 274 m (899 ft) tall Orlovača Hill separates it from the neighborhoods of Ćalije and Rospi Ćuprija on the east, and Mirijevo on the south.[1][2][3]
Characteristics
editLešće is a small, residential area developed around the Lešće cemetery.
Cemetery
editThe cemetery was established in 1980. Chief architect was Milica Jakšić and the detailed urban plan for the area was done in the Belgrade Urban Institute. There is a Church of Saint John the Merciful within the cemetery complex[4]
Architect Olga Litričin designed the crematory. Construction began in 1978 and the facility became operational in 1981. The entire crematory complex covers 4.4 ha (11 acres). Though not the oldest crematory in Serbia (Belgrade New Cemetery had one since 1963-1964), for a while it was the only operational one in Serbia, until 2005 when another one was open in Novi Sad.[4][5]
In popular culture
editFolk singer Aca Lukas recorded a song Lešće, which was the title song of his 8th studio album Lešće, issued in 2008.[4]
References
edit- ^ Tamara Marinković-Radošević (2007). Beograd - plan i vodič. Belgrade: Geokarta. ISBN 86-459-0006-8.
- ^ Beograd - plan grada. Smedrevska Palanka: M@gic M@p. 2006. ISBN 86-83501-53-1.
- ^ Slobodan Radovanović (2007). Belgrade and surrounding places. Smederevska Palanka: Magic Map. ISBN 978-86-7802-004-9.
- ^ a b c Branka Vasiljević (10 December 2018). "Почивалишта настала с краја прошлог века" [Resting places originating from the end of the previous century]. Politika (in Serbian).
- ^ Branka Vasiljević (16 October 2019). "Kremiranje je i ekološko pitanje" [Cremation is also an ecological question]. Politika (in Serbian). p. 14.
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