One of the most important Serbian Orthodox monasteries, founded in the 12th century by Stefan Nemanja, founder of the medieval Serbian state. Its white marble Church of the Virgin has beautiful frescoes, including the famous Crucifixion from 1209. It's a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Dress modestly. Studenica is in the hills near Kraljevo. The nearby Žiča monastery, painted red, is also worth visiting.
A river that winds in tight meanders through a deep limestone canyon in south-western Serbia, a nature reserve famous for its large colony of griffon…
More than 200 earth pyramids, 2 to 15 m high, each topped with a stone 'cap', formed by erosion on a hillside in southern Serbia.
A national park of forested mountains along the Drina River on the border with Bosnia.
A fortress on a ridge above the meeting of the Sava and Danube rivers, fought over by Romans, Byzantines, Ottomans and Austrians, now surrounded by t…
A medieval fortress with nine towers climbing the cliffs at the entrance to the Iron Gates, the dramatic gorge where the Danube cuts through the Carp…
A huge 18th-century fortress on the Danube, called the 'Gibraltar of the Danube', with a clock tower whose hands are reversed, so that boatmen could …
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