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About Serbia

Serbia is a very beautiful country, with a diverse, rich, history and culture.

Serbia is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe. The official language is Serbian, and the predominant religion is Orthodox Christian, although this is the most multi-cultural and multi-religious country in the Balkans.

These are some interesting destinations, places and events that are awaiting:

Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, is a modern metropolis that has a long history that dates to at least the 3rd century BC.
It sits on the confluence of two rivers, and was always a strategic stopover for western and eastern civilizations and their armies.

Kalemegdan:  Is a 7,000 year old fortress that was conquered over 77 times, sits in the most beautiful setting, a park that overlooks two rivers and the newer parts of the city.

Nikola Tesla Museum:  Nikola Tesla, a Serbian-American scientist, gave his greatest contribution to science and the technological progress of the world as the inventor of the rotating magnetic field and of the complete system of production and distribution of electrical energy (motors, generators) based on the use of alternate currents. His name was given to the SI unit for magnetic induction ("Tesla"). Tesla also constructed the generators of high-frequency alternate currents and high-voltage coreless transformer known today as "Tesla Coil".

Skadarlija: The Bohemian quarter, that has a striking resemblance to the Parisian Montmartre neighborhood.

Ada Ciganlija:  The beach in the middle of the city that includes water activities, such as swimming, water-skiiing, and sun-bathing.  Have a lunch or a dinner on one of the many boat restaurants and enjoy the great views.

Ride an old Romance train through the fields of the Serbian province Vojvodina.  Visit small charming towns, including a winery in Sremski Karlovci for a wine tasting, including the same varietal that was served in Vienna Court and on the Titanic.

Visit the donkey farm and nature preserve in Zasevica, and stop at the town Kovacica, famous for the naïve paintings, and include a stop at the Bread museum. Visit Salash, one of the many farms with great hospitality, where you can spend the night, eat great foods, ride horses and enjoy the nature and rural lifestyle. While at the farm, take a carriage ride in a Fiaker, and listen to the sounds of the local Tamburitza music.

Enjoy Lake Palic, a beautiful resort where you can swim and relax.

Visit one of the many festivals in the area: the Sausage Festival in May, the Easter Egg Festival in April, and the Horseshoe Competition in May.

Visit the House of Mileva Einstein, wife of Arnold Einstein, in Titel, where they lived and worked together.

Visit Novi Sad and Exit Festival.
Exit is an annual summer music festival (held in July) in the Petrovaradin Fortress of Novi Sad, Serbia. It is staged annually since 2000 and usually lasts four days. This Festival brings hundreds of thousands from all over the world.  European Association of the 40 largest festivals in Europe awarded Exit as the Best European Festival. The Festival features many famous bands from all over the world.

In early summer, visit the Tisa River, where an insect, called “The Tisa Flower” completely covers the water and the shores as they hatch.  This has been featured in National Geographic.

Topola, which was once the country’s administrative and political center includes many attractions.  Visit the Oplenac Hill, the Royal Karadjordjevic’s family mausoleum and St. George Church, painted with stunning frescoes.

Visit the ruins of the Ancient Roman Thermal Baths in Cacak.
Attend Guca and the Dragacevo Trumpet Festival in August.  This music event attracts hundreds of thousands of participants and musicians every year.

Risovaca Cave, which has ice age animal remains and stone and bone tools that date back over 30,000 years.

Taste local mineral water in Arandjelovac.

Visit the Lipolist Rose Festival, in a town that produces 700,000 thousand rose seedlings every year.

Go to Trsic, the home village of Vuk Karadzic, the founder of the Serbian Ciryllic Alphabet.

Ride an old fashioned train, the Sarganska Osmica to Mokra Gora, and visit “Drvengrad”, a wooden city built recently by famous Serbian famous film director, Emir Kusturica.
Mokra Gora is a film themed ethno village, with traditional wooden houses, churches, galleries, a cinema and a library. Many famous film makers and actors visit this town. In 2010, it was visited by famous actor Johnny Depp. During his visit, a statue dedicated to him was unveiled.
The area is home to 700 plant varieties, many of which are relics or endemic species. Mokra Gora is a particularly valuable habitat for bird species. Of the 60 registered species, 29 are rare. 

Spend a day rafting on the river Drina and enjoy Mount Tara, covered with one-third of Serbian flora and fauna, including many bird and fish species, with springs that produce 300 liters of water per second, and walk on a Meadow Carpet field, surrounded by Serbian Pancic Spruce trees.

Go to Sirogojno, an old village that shows us how people lived in the past couple of centuries, and the architecture of these old houses.
Buy a heavy warm sweater made by the local women, from this area that is famous for sheep rising and wool producing. These women make beautiful, colorful sweaters with designs typical for the region.

Stop by and cool down in the Ghostlike waterfall.
Enjoy the great food in the Zlatiobor mountain restaurants, the spectacular nature, trees, meadows, and views. Stop by the Zlatar Lake Dam on the way to the Mileseva Monastery, built in 1234, where you can see one of the most famous Serbian icons “The White Angel”.

Visit Kopaonik, a famous ski center, with land rich in iron and silver, with exceptional flora, and a rare species of butterfly.

Boil an egg in less than a minute in the waters of the spa of Josanicka banja.

Visit the Zica Monastery, built by Stefan the Crowned, the first Serbian King, in 1195.

Go to Vrnjacka Banja, the most famous spa in Serbia, and enjoy the healing waters with mineral springs.  Visit the Roman Fountainhead and see the collection of the coins from BC that has been found in this region.

Put a lock on a “Lock of Love Bridge” where many love birds “lock” their love.

Visit Resavska Cave- in eastern Serbia, in the region of Gornja Resava.  It is one of the oldest caves in Serbia, some 80 million years old, with some of the older formations dating back around 45 million years. The cave is 4.5 km long, 2830 meters have been investigated in detail and around 800 meters have been made accessible to visitors.

The city of Nis lies on a fertile plain surrounded by mountains at the intersection of the Nišava and Južna Morava Rivers. These two rivers comprise the two main travel routes in the Balkans. Since ancient times, these routes have led to Sofia, Constantinople (Istanbul) and Thessaloniki. The two bodies of water merge near Niš before continuing to Belgrade and into Central Europe.
Niš is 238km from Belgrade. Sometime before the birth of Christ, the Romans conquered this town and named it Naissus. It is the birthplace of the Emperor, Constantine the Great. The city of Niš is one of the oldest cities in the Balkans. It is the second largest city in Serbia of more than 250.000 inhabitants, and the centre of the Southeastern region of the country.
Visit the “Skull Tower”, one of the most important sights, erected following the gory battle between the Serbian Army and the Turks during the Ottoman Empire invasion. The Turkish Sultan ordered a tower to be built out of the heads of every Serbian soldier killed. Originally, this tower had 852 skulls, now only 58 remain preserved.

GAMZIGRAD: The remains of the Felix Romuliana Palace are located in Gamzigrad, not far from Zajecar. The Roman Emperor Galerius named the palace in memory of his mother Romula. The structure is considered to be one of the most grandiose achievements of Roman architecture. Historians believe the remains of Emperor Galerius were cremated and placed in the nearby tumulus.

Visit the town of Pirot, famous for their beautiful rugs manufactured in that region.
Visit “Djavola Varos”, or “Devil’s Town”, currently nominated to be included in The Seven Wonders of the World. Formations of the rocks that resemble Bryce Canon in Utah create howling sounds and a haunting atmosphere, which was the inspiration for the name.

Visit the town of Smederevo, with massive fortress from 1428, on 11 acres, built to resemble Constantinople, or Golubac Fortress, a 14th century fortress built by Stefan Lazarevic, son of Tsar  Lazar, overlooking the river, so he could control traffic on the river.
Eat some great fish in Golubac, or enjoy the spectacular flora, and great views.
Visit the “Manasija Monastery”, white mausoleum of the Despot Stefan Lazarevic, son of Tsar Lazar.

Visit Lepenski Vir , an important Mesolithic site. It consists of one large settlement with around ten satellite villages. The evidence suggests the first human presence in the around 7000 BC with the culture reaching its peak between 5300 BC and 4800 BC. Numerous piscine sculptures and peculiar architecture are testimony to a rich social and religious life led by the inhabitants and the high cultural level of these early Europeans.

Visit Vinca, located on the Danube River in the Balat . Vinča is 10.5 meters high, and it is the largest and most extensively investigated settlement dated to the Balkan Neolithic.
The site was first occupied about 4800 BC, but by 4500 BC, Vinča was a flourishing Neolithic agricultural and pastoral farming community, with some influence over sites all over central and southern Europe. Although Vinča's population dropped about 3500 BC, people lived on the tell until the Romans entered the Danube region.

Visit Kosovo and Metohia, the Province of Serbia, currently under the protection of EULEX, the EU forces. UN Resolution #1244 guarantees Kosovo to stay as a part of Serbia after the war in the 90’s.
Kosovo and Metohia are the very essence of both Serbian spiritual and cultural identity and statehood since the Middle Ages. Fertile and clement plains of Kosovo with mild climate and rich in water resources, with high mountain chains have been good-blessed environment for a fruitful development of the highest achievements in all fields in medieval Serbia. The cultural and demographic strength of the Serbs is best illustrated by the presence of 1.500 monuments of Serbian culture identified so far. Numerous outstanding noble Serbian families used to live in these regions.

The Serbian elite and minor nobility have built hundreds of smaller chapels and several dozens of monumental Christian monasteries. Some of them have been preserved to date, such as Patriarchy of Pec (since 1346 site of the Serbian Patriarch), Decani, Gracanica, Bogorodica Ljeviska, Banjska, Sveti Arhandjeli near Prizren and others. Serbian churches and monasteries had been for centuries owners of great complexes of fertile land. Metohia, the name originated from the Greek word metoh means church land.

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