Belgrade is the ugliest city in the world in the most beautiful place in the world.
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You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work. _x000D_ But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good, I am happy and I say: This is beautiful. That is Architecture. Art enters in.
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