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Sava Center
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Sava Center (Serbian: Сава центар / Sava centar) is an international, congress, cultural and business centre of various multi-functional activities located in Belgrade, Serbia. It is has the largest audience hall in the country and entire former Yugoslavia.
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Construction took three years, from 1976 through 1979, and was headed by chief designer and team manager Stojan Maksimović. Works had to be rushed due to scheduled IMF annual meeting which eventually took place in Sava Center, which caused the plan for main hall to have a revolving stage to be scrapped.
Sava Centar has 69,720 m2 of useful and 100,000 m2 overall area, including a theatre hall with 4,000 seats, 15 conference halls, exhibition area and a number of other facilities. It annually hosts more than half million visitors.
A recently renovated parking complex at Sava Center opened on the August 16, 2006, with capacity of 410 parking spaces.
In its jubilee year of 2007, as Sava Center marks its 30th anniversary, a substantial amount of money will be invested in the reconstruction of the glass façade. Also, the city authorities will fund the reconstruction of broken glass on the sideways facing façade, as well as the audio equipment for concerts, while seats are to be replaced in the Great Hall.
Sava Center has been the host of significant congress gatherings and artistic programs: OSCE, Annual General Meeting of IMF and the World Bank, 55th Annual General Meeting of Interpol, 6th UNCTAD, General Meeting of UNESCO, FOREX, FISIT, 9th Summit of Non-aligned Countries.
Sava Center also hosted: Plácido Domingo, Montserrat Caballé, Miles Davis, Henrik Schering, B. B. King, Zubin Mehta, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Johan Strauss Orchestra, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Okazu Philharmonic Orchestra and many more. It is also the host venue of the Miss Serbia competition and Serbian Eurovision Song Contest selection music festivals, Beovizija and Evropesma.