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[…]

CNN writes about Serbia, the tourist destination that “tends to escape the attention of many travelers”, a country with “the legendary nightlife of the capital, Belgrade” and “the party at the Exit Festival in Novi Sad”. This is what they wrote about Serbia: “There is “raucous madness that descends every August on the small town of Guča, whose trumpet festival has gained a reputation as one of the most riotous[…]