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SUBOTICA (Суботица)

One of the most beautiful cities in the region of Vojvodina is located only 10 kilometers from the border between Serbia and Hungary. It’s one of Serbia’s most multicultural towns first mentioned in 1391. Through its long history, Subotica often changed its rulers, countries...

BAČ FORTRESS (Тврђава Бач)

Historically, the town of Bač has been a major crossroad point and one of the most developed parts of the Kingdom of Hungary. Bač Fortress is the most important medieval monument in the province of Vojvodina located on the outskirts of the town. There are records of a fort at the site...

SREMSKI KARLOVCI (Сремски Карловци)

Sremski Karlovci is scattered between the green slopes of Fruška Gora and the blue Danube. In 1698–99 the village was the site of a 72-day congress that ended hostilities between the Ottoman Empire and various European states in the Treaty of Carlowitz. By this treaty, the Habsburgs took...

FRUŠKA GORA (Фрушка гора)

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...

NOVI SAD (Нови Сад)

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...

ZASAVICA (Засавица)

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...

TRŠIĆ (Тршић)

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...

KOSMAJ MONUMENT (Космај)

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...

OPLENAC (Опленац)

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...

KRAGUJEVAC (Крагујевац)

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...