What do the coats of arms of Belgrade and some of its municipalities look like?
The basic coat of arms of Belgrade was designed by painter Đorđe Andrejević Kun and officially adopted in 1931; in Yugoslav times a red star was added above it without any formal decision. It is a baroque shield with a blue field.
Zemun’s coat of arms dates from 1884: a blue shield with a green triple hill from which a tree grows, a resting deer on the left and a golden lion holding a silver sabre on the right.
Vračar’s is a blue shield edged in gold; the cross is the one on the main dome of the Temple of Saint Sava, on the hill where the relics of Saint Sava were burned.
Zvezdara is named after the observatory built here in 1932; its coat of arms, adopted in 1993 on the proposal of the Serbian Heraldic Society, is one of the most poetic: a narrow gold cross on blue, and on the flag the morning constellation of mid-June to mid-August with six-pointed stars.
