Is there Perfection? Those who claim that it does not exist will think once again about this when visiting the Kaona Monastery, near Vladimirci, in Western Serbia. Monastery buildings, churches, lake, auxiliary buildings, tourist facilities, perfectly maintained grass, all of which are ideally integrated into the untouched natural environment of the beautiful West of Serbia – nobody, no one can remain indifferent to this. When a man sees this beauty,[…]
As you pass through Debrc, a quiet place near the town of Vladimirci, Debrc, a village of barely 700 people, it’s hard to imagine that here, in the middle of the Macvan Plain, this used to be the capital of the Srem kingdom, the medieval Serbian state, headed by the powerful Serbian ruler Stefan Dragutin Nemanjic, grandson the first Serbian king, Stefan Nemanjic. Everything is slowed down now: in the[…]
If you go northwest from the beautiful mountain town of Krupanj in Serbia, towards Loznica and the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina, about six miles from the city, just next to the road, you will be welcomed by a sight straight from a science fiction movie: smooth, stone arches forming a structure unlike anything you’ve seen before, except perhaps in a science fiction franchise Stargate. If you decide to park[…]
If you go northwest from the beautiful mountain town of Krupanj in Serbia, towards Loznica and the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina, about six miles from the city, just next to the road, you will be welcomed by a sight straight from a science fiction movie: smooth, stone arches forming a structure unlike anything you’ve seen before, except perhaps in a science fiction franchise Stargate. If you decide to park[…]
When it is realy hot in Vladimirci, and it is near 40 on the Celsius scale, people want only one thing: to cool off. If you are near Vladimirci, the best place to be is without a doubt an outdoor swimming pool in this place! The hosts tried this year not only to provide water and sun, but also organized a bar with drinks, music, and cultural and entertainment events[…]
Loud voices of local guys sitting next to the camp fire, making a bean soup in a large pot, while encouraging each other to go and grab a case of beer cooled in a nearby stream are the only thing breaking the perfect silence of the forest in central Serbia, near the beautiful town of Valjevo. As we approach, we are understanding what they are talking about: as it is[…]
Reuters, the biggest and most influential news agency in the World, published a story about the beautiful municipality of Krupanj, located in the woods of the Western Serbia. Here is the Reuters story: “Ivan Isailovic, mayor of the small Serbian town of Krupanj, is off next week to seek investors not in Munich or Paris, but in Istanbul – a sign of Turkey’s growing influence across the western Balkans that[…]
The first thing you notice as you are walking down the streets of Krupanj, a town in western Serbia, center of the region called Rađevina – is serenity. Unreal, as you think of the speed, the unimaginable speed of our everyday lives – an unexpected and completely disarming peace. As you try to avoid the cheerful gangs of children speeding through the center of this town, put into the endless[…]
Can one man make a miracle? Those who visited Dobri Potok, a church park, know this is possible. This unique spiritual and cultural center was built around the church dedicated to the Ascension of the Most Holy Mother of God in Krupanj, and the man standing behind all of this is the priest Alexander Djurdjev. The whole complex is dominated by a church dedicated to the ascension of the Holy[…]
When we first entered Krupanj and asked what a tourist should see, everyone said:– Have you been in the “Krupanj Museum ” at priest Aca’s? Let’s meet history of Krupanj and this museum. Radjevina in roman times, the Middle Ages, until the Great War, in the Second World War – it’s all there, collected in a museum, for all to see. Original costumes from Radjevina, which are identical in the[…]