Ninety million years ago, Fruška Gora mountain was an island in the Pannonian sea. Now it’s the only mountain in the flat Vojvodina, raised in the shape of a narrow reef, from which extend single lateral reefs flourishing with oak, hornbeam, beech, and basswood forests. There is...
the Austrians into the present huge structure after 1699 as part of the military frontier with the Ottoman Empire. During the period of Turkish rule of Serbia south of the Danube, Novi Sad became a center of Serbian culture in Austrian lands, especially after the Serbian literary society...
One of the last authentically preserved wetlands in the nation, Zasavica hit the headlines at the turn of the century when it became the center of a drive to reintroduce beavers into the country. In the reserve, you can find 192 species of flora and fauna that are completely unique in...
The village of Tršić is situated in the hilly area in the Southern – West part of the River Jadar Valley. It is the birthplace of the Serbian linguist and language reformer, Vuk Stefanović Karadžić. The ethno-complex is a village of the Dinaric type from the 19th century. The whole...
We made a short stop next to another brutalist monument made of six freestanding concrete structures, each roughly 30 meters high, that taken together look a bit like a spaceship sent through time from a future envisioned in the 1970s. The monument commemorates the Partisan regiment from...
07In the heart of the Šumadija, in the near vicinity of the town Topola, slowly arises the rocky hillside called Oplenac. The St. George’s Church, also known as Oplenac, is the mausoleum of the Serbian and Yugoslav royal house of Karađorđević. It is an imposing five-domed building...
We made a short stop in regional hub Kragujevac to recharge our Telenor sim cards. It lies in Central Serbia on the Lepenica River. Here at the beginning of the 19th century, Karadjordje led the first Serbian uprising against the Turks. It was the capital of Serbia from 1818 to 1841...
We arrived late in the afternoon at an early 13th-century Serbian Orthodox Žiča monastery near Kraljevo. The monastery, together with the Church of the Holy Dormition, was built by the first King of Serbia, Stefan the First-Crowned, and the first Head of the Serbian Church, Saint Sava...
We left our truck around 4 kilometers away on a crossing and took our scooter to drive a narrow road leading to Sretenje Monastery. It is located on a plateau below the peak of Ovcar, at the source of the Korona stream, elevated about 800 meters above sea level. The first written remark...
We left curious Drina River House behind, and before we left the city, we took very expensive diesel (170,90 RSD / l) and AdBlue (10 l / 999 RSD) to be able to reach the impressive socialistic Kadinjača Memorial Complex. This complex built in the year1952 commemorates fallen Partisan...