The Serbian capital Belgrade translates to White City. Located where the Sava meets the Danube and between Vienna and the Black Sea, Belgrade is one of the oldest continually populated cities in the world. That location has led the city to be under siege in multiple wars over millennia with the last under Slobadan Milosevic’s waning Yugoslavia in the heinous Kosovan war which ended in 1999. Since then, the city has gone through a renewal, but the aesthetic of the days of the pre-war era can be found in this cover made by Mercury Foundry for telephone cable access. The cover has a central pickpoint with the use and city name surrounding it and a nebulous founding date of 1339. An ornate pattern of quatrefoils and slight Russian Orthodox motifs fills the remaining area only to be rudely interrupted by the large foundry titles. Two of the central motifs have an anchor crudely visible, which is a reference to the city’s coat of arms. It’s a beauty and a reminder of what the city can become again.