Spirta House, Belgrade, Gothic Revival architecture museum in Zemun, Serbia.

Spirta House is a Gothic Revival family house at Glavna 9 in Zemun, built in 1855 to a design by Heinrich von Ferstel. It has three tracts, a side wing in the courtyard and an asymmetrically placed carriage entrance. The stone facade follows the odd-number scheme of the Romanticism period, and the entrance archway walls are painted a secco with scenes from Greek mythology.

The building was constructed in 1855 by Austrian architect Heinrich von Ferstel. Over the decades it changed purposes, serving as a private home, a hotel, and a military facility during World War I.

The Spirta family, of Aromanian origin, settled in Zemun in the late 18th century and received a noble title and coat of arms from Emperor Franz Joseph I in 1856. The house's interior preserves ornamental wallpapers and an intarsia parquet made in Belgium from eight wood species, including maple, walnut, cherry and oak, inlaid by hand. The only surviving item of the family's wealth is a pink crystal glass used by Sofija Spirta.

The museum is located on Glavna Street in Zemun and is easy to find in the neighborhood. Allow yourself enough time to walk through the detailed rooms and examine the displays at a comfortable pace.

The only surviving item from the Spirta family's former wealth is a single glass of pink crystal used by Sofija Spirta. The intarsia parquet, made in Belgium from eight wood species inlaid by hand, survives in only a few houses in Europe. The hallway paintings are not icons but a secco work, pigments applied to dry plaster.