List of official residences of Serbia

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The official residences are the residences owned by a Serbian state and their function is to house the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister during his or her term of office as they are the only state officials entitled by decree to have an official residence.

The official residences have domestic and maintenance staff, as well as the accommodation and premises necessary for daily life. The guarding and protection of the residences are provided by either the Guard of the Serbian Armed Forces (residence of the President of the Republic) or the Unit for the Protection of the Important Persons and Residences of the Police of Serbia (residence of the Prime Minister).

There are no strictly-designated "presidential" and "prime-ministerial" residences, which are a priori reserved for those office-holders. After assuming the office of the President of the Republic/Prime Minister, the authorities responsible (Secretariat-General of the President of the Republic and Secretariat-General of the Government) designate residences that office-holders will move into.

All official residences are located in Dedinje neighborhood of Belgrade.

The Villa Mir (Serbian Cyrillic: Вила Мир, lit. 'Peace Villa') is a residential building located at 2 Konavljanska Street and has area of 4,000 square metres (43,000 sq ft). It is currently used by the President of the Republic, primarily for informal receptions of visiting foreign dignitaries.

The Villa Mir was built in 1978-1979 for the lifelong Yugoslav president, Josip Broz Tito, but he never moved into it since at the time of building completion at the end of 1979 his health deteriorated rapidly and was transferred to the hospital, where he died four months afterwards. It was opened in 1984 as the Josip Broz Tito Memorial Museum. On the ground floor Tito's personal items and decorations from as many as 68 countries were displayed, on the first floor valuable objects of applied art made of silver and ivory were exhibited, while on second floor there was an archaeological collection. In the mid-1990s, the building was emptied of the collection which was transferred to the nearby Museum of Yugoslavia and refurbished for residential purposes in 1998. After the 1999 NATO bombing, the president of FR Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milošević, moved here, living there until 2001 when he was arrested in this house and taken to custody. In the late 2010s, building was thoroughly renovated.^[1][2]

The Villa Bokeljka (Serbian Cyrillic: Вила Бокељка, lit. 'Bay of Kotor Woman Villa') is a residential building located at 2a Tolstojeva Street and has area of 1,700 square metres (18,000 sq ft) while the entire villa complex, together with the gardens, covers an area of 1 hectare (2.5 acres). It is currently designated as the residence of the President of the Republic.

The villa was built in 1936 belonging to the royal House of Karađorđević and was bequeathed by the King Alexander I to the minor prince Tomislav. However, the circumstances after the World War II prevented the young prince from regaining his property. After the World War II, building was used as the residence of a high-ranking officials of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. Since the 1980s up until the end of the century, building was used as the guest house for high-ranking foreign dignitaries. In 2001, Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić moved there and lived until his death in 2003 assassination. The villa underwent renovation in 2005.^[3]

The Villa Bor (Serbian Cyrillic: Вила Бор, lit. 'Pine Villa') is a residential building located at 75 Kneza Aleksandra Boulevard and has area of 750 square metres (8,100 sq ft). It is currently used as the residence of the Prime Minister.

The Villa Bor was built in 1932 by the wealthy merchant Čedomir Petrović and designed by Stanislav Sobotka. Čedomir Petrović’s fate was similar to the fate of many wealthy Serbs who, after the World War II, were declared "enemies of the people" and members of "the old Serbian bourgeoisie" undesirable in the new communist system. After Tito's death in 1980, Jovanka Broz, the First Lady of Yugoslavia, was forcibly moved there from presidential residence at 15 Užička Street (Tito's lifelong residence, destroyed in 1999 NATO bombing), where she lived in seclusion until her death in 2013. By the time of her death the house was in a very bad condition with roof leaking and with broken heating system. In 2019-2020 residence has undergone complete renovation and, in 2021, the Prime Minister Ana Brnabić moved in there.^[4]

The Villa at 23 Užička Street is a residential building with the area of 800 square metres (8,600 sq ft).

It was built in 1931 by a prominent royal physician, Dr Moačanin, who left the house with his family in 1941 after the bombing of Belgrade in the World War II. After the war, leading communist Edvard Kardelj, one of Josip Broz's closest associates, moved in and lived there up until the beginning of the 1960s. In the late 1960s it was briefly used by Mijalko Todorović, the president of the Federal Assembly. The federal authorities used it afterwards, among other things, to organize farewells to retirement of prominent officials and similar ceremonies. The Prime Minister of FR Yugoslavia, Milan Panić, lived there from 1992 to 1993. From 1998 to 2003 building was used as the residence of President of Serbia Milan Milutinović during his presidential tenure. Nataša Mićić, as acting president, briefly lived there in 2003. The president Tomislav Nikolić moved into the villa in 2012.^[5]

The Villa at 21 Užička Street is a residential building with the area of 310 square metres (3,300 sq ft).

It is currently designated state guest house used as an official residence for visiting foreign dignitaries during state visits or for other important events.^[5]