Fruska gora, a national park with luscious forests, is hiding 16 orthodox monasteries from between 15 to 18 centuries. Sremski Karlovci, a city - museum, the centre of Serbian culture and religion in 18 and 19 centuries. Novi Sad, the capital of Vojvodina, an administrative, economic, cultural and university centre of a region with the remarkably well preserved fortress Petrovaradin which overlooks the city from the other side of the Danube.
Down the Danube to the Southeast / One-day excursions
Vinca, an archaeological site which reveals the oldest organized settlements in Europe from Neolithic times after which the culture of the central Balkans and the Pannonian plain is called the "Vinca" culture. Smederevo, a medieval town of the last great Serbian ruler Djuradj Brankovic of the early 15 century with a well - preserved fortress on the Danube's bank.
Kovacica, Naïve Painters’ Village / One-day excursions
In 1802 the village of Kovacica with a Slovak ethnic minority was established fifty kilometres from Belgrade. In this village of numerous crafts especially developed were naive arts which have been made famous throughout the world, in the first place, by Zuzana Halupova and Martin Jonas. The international ethno centre Babka promotes unique artistic features of the region.
Gems of Moravian Serbia / One-day excursions
The monastery of Ravanica, - memorial monastery of Prince Lazar, its founder whose tomb is in the church. Lazar built it shortly before the 1389 battle with the Turks at Kosovo. Resava monastery, a memorial of Prince [Despot] Stefan Lazarevic from early 15 century, famous in the past for its copying school and now for frescoes of Holy Warriors which depict the equipment of Serbian warriors of the late Middle Ages.
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