When you enter Banja Vrujci (Vrujci Spa), a place not far from Mionica, a small town in central Serbia, it seems to you that time has stopped: an old-fashioned, peaceful and always cheerful atmosphere awaits you, which seems to be made to heal your body and spirit. At an altitude of 180 meters, only 92 kilometers from Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, Vrujci is an ideal place for vacation. Famous[…]
When we went to Tkački dvor (Weaving Court) in the village of Rakari in the municipality of Mionica, our expectations were no different from the usual ones: we will see the house where Mrs. Zagorka Stojanović weaves, we will talk to her, she will tell her about ideas, plans, how many people come here, where she came from to Rakari , bearing in mind that she is an artist from[…]
The tourist offer of Mionica is rich and diverse. Through natural beauties, landscapes, Ribnica Nature Park, rivers Lepenica and Toplica, thermo-mineral springs in Banja Vrujci and Sports Center Mionica, to cultural landmarks such as the birthplace of Duke Zivojin Misic, old schools, religious buildings. With these words, Bojana Glišić, acting director of the Mionica Tourist Organization, begins the interview for the Come to Serbia portal. She talks about manifestations, visits[…]
The underground city of the Karadjordjevic dynasty, or the “Stone girl”, is a unique facility, not only in Serbia, but also in the world, and is potentially a great tourist attraction for the Drina region and the whole of Serbia. It was built between 1931 and 1934, as a hiding place for King Aleksandar Karadjordjevic, it has as many as 75 rooms connected by kilometers of corridors, and the Municipality[…]
Some 140 kilometers from Belgrade, near the town of Krupanj in Western Serbia, there is one of the most interesting tourist attractions in the country: the Church Park Dobri Potok, a complex of parks, museums and church buildings. In addition to the Church of the Assumption of the Holy Mother of God, which dominates this complex, the most interesting part of this exceptional place are the museums that are located[…]
As you walk between the wooden buildings in the Dobri Potok Church Park, a complex of parks, museums and church buildings, a few kilometers from Krupanj, a small town in western Serbia, you have the feeling that you are in another, more beautiful world. Everything here is perfect, it seems, ancient and deep, spiritual and calm, sublime and beautiful. Each building has its own purpose, and all together they fit[…]
When King Aleksandar Karadjordjevic made the decision to build the monumental underground complex of rooms, corridors and halls in the small town on the border of Serbia and Bosnia, Mali Zvornik, he could not know three things. First, that he will never live to see the completion of the construction of this “underground city”, since he was killed in Marseilles in 1934, and that this monumental construction project will never[…]
A stone museum? Sounds boring? How mistaken is anyone who thinks something like this: each of the more than 300 geological exhibits exhibited within the exhibition in the yard of Predrag Peca Petrovic, in the village of Pastric near the town of Mionica, tells an incredible story, which is sometimes several hundred million years old… The Stone Museum in Pastric was opened in 2013 by the famous Serbian biologist Predrag[…]
In the village of Struganik, not far from Mionica, a beautiful and peaceful town in western Serbia, there is a large, white house, perfectly preserved in the condition it was in in the second half of the 19th century. The kind host welcomes us with open arms, as he does with everyone who comes here to get acquainted with the history located in probably the most beautiful part of Serbia.[…]
The famous Wax Museum in Jagodina has a new attraction: along with figures of 30 famous sciencetists, politicians, writers, actors, sportsmen, clerics, there are also carriages from the 19th century, which are believed to belong to King Milan Obrenovic’s court. The carriages are more than 150 years old and are made of rose and cherry wood. They are well preserved and in running condition. They were pulled by two horses,[…]