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According to the customs documentation to which Televisión H1 had access, the monument to Stefan Nemanja currently costs citizens at least nine million euros. However, experts warn that this is only part of the price and that the final bill will be higher. However, Deputy Mayor Goran Vesić has not yet revealed how much the monument costs, but does not deny the price reached by journalists in the first half.
The authorities have not yet revealed how much the Stefan Nemanja monument costs, as they decided to keep it a secret until 2023.
Deputy Mayor Goran Vesić says that all costs, whatever they may be, will be borne by the Serbian Government. However, H1’s knowledge does not deny that the monument costs at least nine million euros.
“It’s like asking how much Hilandar costs or how much Zica or Studenica cost. Some things are made by our people for centuries. After eight centuries, Stefan Nemanja deserves a monument in Belgrade, and he deserves a monument from our people who are not ordinary.” says Vesić.
That the monument is not common, apart from the price, is also shown by the fact that it is the highest in the region: 23 meters.
The art historian Nenad Makuljevic says that, however, it is not a good sign that the government has decided to send a message of patriotism through megalomaniac monuments, because, as he puts it, money is wasted in a poor country like Serbia.
“I don’t know if there is any artwork in the country of Serbia that is financed or paid for, bought at this price. These are huge figures for such construction works, and I’m not talking about all the other costs that preceded it, secondary costs. we call them that, so now we only get part of the price, ”says Makuljević.
By the way, the Russian sculptor Alexander Rukavishnikov is in charge of the appearance of the monument to Stefan Nemanja, and the workers of Russia are in charge of its construction.
Former municipal architect Djordje Bobic also says that the government did not dare to allow the architecture of the Belgrade train station to collapse and that it is unacceptable that artists from Serbia are not in charge of the works on Sava Square, which it would cost much less to the treasury of the republic.
“And we, as a state or as a city, spend a lot of money sending them abroad. I do not blame the famous Russian sculptor, he is a great artist, but what he has done here for Belgrade is certainly something that does not belong to Belgrade”, believes Bobic .
“Obviously nobody asks the citizens.”
Source: H1
Radomir Lazović from Belgrade’s Let’s Not Drowning Initiative says that the authorities’ decision to invest millions of euros in the construction of the monument is shameful.
“At a time when we cannot provide adequate treatment, so we treat children with SMS messages, and when we cannot provide easier conditions for people in line, every year we have a problem with people without home that they have nowhere to go, that is the money should have gone for it, instead of the monument, but it is obvious that no one asks the citizens ”, estimates Lazović.
And as for the price of the reconstruction of the Sava square, the representatives of the municipal authorities assure that this work alone costs 18 million euros, but they do not reveal from which fund the works will be financed.
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