Holidays in Serbia: what to see

Holidays in Serbia: what to see



Serbia is a young independent state,Formed from the former Yugoslavia. Its favorable geographical location, convenient communication routes and the richness of nature have always attracted travel enthusiasts. There are a lot of unique places that can be of interest to an ordinary tourist.





Novi Sad, Serbia

















The Belgrade Fortress

The place where the Serbia-BelgradeThe fortress is on top of a hill at the confluence of the rivers Sava and the Danube behind an ancient fortress wall. Here, in the Lower and Upper City, there are ancient artifacts - the ruins of a Roman settlement, the ruins of a Byzantine castle, churches, artillery grounds, outbuildings. In the military museum, a huge collection of weapons, awards and flags, military ammunition and uniforms, and many historical details of the military affairs of Serbia are presented opposite the Istanbul gate. Here is the National Observatory and the famous monument to the Winner.

Neighborhoods of Belgrade

There are many interesting places in the vicinityThe Serbian capital. Here there is an ancient Smederevskaya fortress with very interesting wells and a peculiar architecture, the city of Novi Sad or "local Athens", and, of course, Subotica is an ancient city of Serbian-Hungarian traditions. Being in Serbia, you can not help seeing the Mokra Gora biological reserve, on the territory of which Drvengrad is located, created by the world-famous cinema master, Emir Kusturica.

Great Kusturica

While working on the film "Life as a miracle" inearly 2000, Kusturica was visited by the idea of ​​creating a real Serbian village. The film crew worked in the bosom of nature near the picturesque Mecavnik mountain. Gradually the director was so used to and loved the unpretentious local landscape that after the end of filming he decided to build an "ethnographic village-hotel" here. Already in 2004, the first visitors arrived in Drvengrad, who were delighted with local service and everyday life. Here, in one of the wooden houses, Emir Kusturica himself lives, when he comes to relax in the short moments of his rest. The streets and squares of Drvengrad are named after celebrities revered by Kusturica - Bergman, Fellini, Tarkovsky, Maradona, Tesla. The most unusual place in the village is the Stanley Kubrick cinema, the halls of which are underground. It was this project of Emir Kusturica that was awarded in 2005 by the Philippe Rothier Award.

Nis

The amazing history of the city of Nis, which at willfate was at the crossroads of Orthodoxy and Islam, between the west and east, between the cultures of Europe and the Balkans. Here the birthplace of the emperor Constantine the Great, here were the trade routes of merchants and pilgrims, and the history of Serbia was overgrown with myths and legends. Symbols of Nish became the oldest early Christian crypt of the beginning of the 4th century and the remains of the church of Archangel Gavili.