Monastery Rakovica – Belgrade
Rakovica Monastery, Belgrade – Serbia (July 2020) Only 10 km south of the center of Belgrade, hidden between the hills, is the Rakovica Monastery. Today’s monastery of Rakovica is first mentioned in written sources in the 16th century, at this location where it was moved most probably for security reasons. In the central part of […]
Roman place Felix Romuliana – Serbia
Roman palace was a imperial residence named Felix Romuliana (July 2018) The archeological site of Felix Romuliana, also known in literature as Gamzigrad, is located in eastern Serbia, 11 km from the town of Zajecar. The late antique palace was built at the end of the 3rd and the beginning of the 4th century for […]
Golubac fortress – Serbia
Golubac Fortress in Serbia from another angle (June 2019) Guardian of Djerdap as many call it, Golubac Fortress is one of the most beautiful medieval fortresses in Serbia. The fortress was built on the remains of a Roman fortification which had the same purpose as the Golubac fortress to control the movement along the Danube […]
Viminacium archaeological site – Serbia
Archeological site Viminacium (July 2018) Today an archeological site and once the capital of the Roman province of Upper Moesia. The city existed from the 1st to the 7th century AD. During the reign of Emperor Hadrian, the city received the status of Municupium, and during the reign of Gordian III. It rose to the […]
Monastery Novo Hopovo – Serbia
Monastery Novo Hopovo is hidden in Fruška gora mountain . The monastery is dedicated to the transfer of the relics of St. Nicholas. Novo Hopovo is an important cultural center and the seat of the bishop since its founding at the beginning of the 16th century. Transfer of the relics of St. Theodore Tyrone was […]
Novi Pazar Saint Peter church – Serbia
Church of St. Peter and Paul called Peter’s Church in Serbia (February 2016) Today is the great Christian holiday of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, better known as St. Peter’s Day. One of the oldest churches in Serbia that is still used today is actually Peter’s Church in Novi Pazar. The church has the […]
Church of saint Nikola – Serbia
Church of saint Nikola (September 2012) Kursumlija is a town in the south of Serbia in the Toplica district. The monastery of St. Nicholas is the first endowment of Stefan Nemanja until he was proclaimed a great zupan. The monastery was built between 1159 and 1166. on the hill above the mouth of the river […]
Krusevac city – Serbia
Krusevac Serbia, Monument to Kosovo Heroes (November 2011) The town of Krusevac is located in the Morava valley on the river Rasina. The first written sources about the city date from the 14th century (1387) when Prince Lazar confirmed the old privileges to the people of Dubrovnik. The city was founded by Prince Lazar in […]
Oplenac Topola – Serbia
Oplenac Topola – Serbia the church of saint George (June 2020) The memorial church and mausoleum of Karadjordjevic are located on top of the hill Oplenac above Topola. The construction of the church began in 1910. according to the project of Kosta Jovanović. King Pera, as the people called him, did not wait to see […]
Gracanica monastery – Serbia
Gracanica Monastery Kosovo and Metohia – Serbia (April 2013) Gracanica Monastery is located 10 km from Pristina on the left bank of the river Gracanka. The church of the Gracanica monastery was built by the Serbian King Milutin in 1321. and dedicated it to the Assumption of the Most Holy Mother of God. The monastery […]
