Visit our Ethno houses, a collection of dolls in national Shokac costumes, old crafts and women’s handicraft, enjoy the local specialties in restaurants or at the host.

Accommodation capacity is one touristic bus.

EVENTS
- Carnival ( februar )
- Days of hony and bee ( februar )
- Hunters ball ( februar )
- Fishermans ball ( mart )
- Planet Earth day ( 22. april )
- Environment day ” Who respects a flower, will respect a world too ” ( O5. jun )

Environment, with endless forests and waters, as well as a rich flora and fauna, provides an ideal opportunity for hiking, boating, canoeing, bicycle and coach riding, bird -  watching, photographing, fishing, camping, as well as visiting a number of bungalows, Bački Monoštor proudly bears a title : ” The Gate of Gornje podunavilje “ .

Accommodation and catering facilities

In addition to Bačka Palanka is more households dealing with private housing. What is particularly characteristic of Bačka Palanka in its card on which the song with the tambura offer diverse dishes of fish.

Hotel FONTANA
- 29 rooms, 2 suites, 59 beds ( TV, air condition, telephone )
- following contents ( exchange office, vault, gym, big and small restaurant hall, summer garden )

Hotel GRAND CLUB
- 12 rooms, 2 suites, 21 beds ( TV, telephone, mini bar, satelite digital aerial )
- following contents ( small hall, restaurant, conservatory, 2 tennis courts, football pitch )

Restaurant ” IDILA PLUS ”
- 13 rooms, 30 beds ( TV, telephone, air condition, internet conection )
- following contents ( restaurant, spa )

Hunting House ” DIJANA ” Karađorđevo
- 7 rooms, 2 suites, 16 beds
- following contents ( small hall, drawing room, wine shop, balcony summer house )

Čarda ” ŠARAN ”
- restaurant hall 80 seats, upstairs hall 100 seats
- following contents ( TV, parking, port for yahts and boats )

Čarda DOM SPORTOVA
- restaurant hall 35 seats, opened terrace 70 seats
- following contents ( TV, parking port for yahts and boats )

Čarda ” KALOŠ “
- restaurant hall 80 seats, opened terrace 120 seats
- following contents ( parking, port for yahts and boats )

Čarda ” FLORIDA “
- 3 bungalows, 6 beds
- following contents (small and big restaurant hall, opened and an indoor terrace, parking, port for yahts and boats )

Festival of the different names and significance such as:

DANUBE’ S BALL
Time and place: the firsthalf of July, Bačka Palanka
Organizer: Cultural centre of the town and the Parlament of the Municipality of Bačka Palanka

INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ECOLOGICAL THEATRE FOR CHILDREN ” FEP “
Time and place: the second half of Avgust, Bačka Palanka
Organizer: Children’ s centre ” Različak ”

GOLDEN KETTLE
Time and place: the last week of August, Port Bager, Bačka Palanka
Organizer: ” Kaloš” čarda and the Parlament of the Municipality of Bačka Palanka

ENCOUNTERS IN PIVNICE’ S FIELDS
Time and place: April, Pivnice
Organizer: Slovakian Cultural artistic society ” Pivnice ” , Pivnice

St. TRIFUN
Time and place: February 14th St. Trifun, Neštin
Organizer: Society of wine marker’ s, wine grower’ s, greengrocer’ s Neštin and Local community Neštin

FESTIVAL OF HOME MADE SAUSAGE
- Time and place: the last Saturday of February, Polojska šuma
- Organizer: Society of lovers of good snack

” ALA VOLEM KOLO DA IGRAM “
Time and place: May 13 17th Tovariševo
Organizer: Cultural society ” Mileta Protić ”

BOSTANIJADA
Time and place: the first half of Avgust, Silbaš
Organizer: Local community Silbaš and Society
of vegetable makers and greengrocers of Silbaš

ETNO ŠOR
Time and place: Beginning of July Bačka Palanka
Organizer: Tourist organization of the municipality Bačka Palanka


VIDOVDANSKA AKADEMIJA
Time and place: June 28th Bačka Palanka
Organizer: Tourist organization of the municipality Bačka Palanka

The municipality Bačka Palanka

It is situated in AP Vojvodina and belongs to the South Bačka District. It comprises the surface of 579 km.

Thank to the favorable climate, influence of Fruška Gora and the Danube, the municipality Bačka Palanka is abundant with flora and fauna painted through the nature reservations.

Multiculturalism, cultural heritage, historical events and often migrations are factors that have made certain recognition of  Bačka Palanka and settlements in the municipality.

Bačka Palanka is the town of sport and sportsmen.

Variety of Bačka Palanka and residents’  customs in this municipality in Vojvodina has been shown through the many events. The events are numerous and they express the joy of the life in Bačka Palanka literally. Offering the numerous reasons for coming and staying, the municipality Bačka Palanka represents the best choice for rest, through the events, the Danube tourism, sports tourism, cycling tourism, busyness tourists, tourists in transit, excursionists, hunters . . .

VILLAGES IN THE MUNICIPALITY BAČKA PALANKA :

ČELAREVO

Before World War 2, the settlement was called Cib. The castle Dundjerski is significant, which was built as a castle summer house in neoclassicism style at the beginning of 19th century, as a beer museum, as a part of Carlsberg brewery whose beerr tasting one should not miss. It is also very interesting the resort Poloj Cibska forest, near Čelarevo, an attractive place for picnic lovers, as in early spring and autumn in the time of bathing season.

OBROVAC

The Serbians founded the settlement in 1308. After Mohačka batle. The village is famous for sheeps farming, and there is even an event in name of that. It is also famous for exavation of Celthic money.

KARAĐORĐEVO

An oasis of rest, hunting and hors sport, first famous for horse farm of full – blooded horses. For tourist visits, there is a chance for hunting ground, horse farm, hippodrome and horse farm museum tour. „ First May Reveille ” is the traditional cultural, sport anl tourist event in Karadjordjevo and it has been held for 25 years. Hunting house Diana and bungalows in Hunting centre Vranjak. Game and fish specialtiesare offered to the guests. Hunting ground Kradjordjevo exclusively does the commercial hunting for big game of high hunting. The special reservation of nature Karadjordjevo is famous for Tito’ s residence.

TOVARIŠEVO

A colorful village known by Mileta Protic, a pilot born in the village, whose plane is settled even today in the village. The residents are the hosts of the International Festival of children folklore ” Ala volem kolo da igram “.

MLADENOVO

The Hungarian King Bela 4th founded the village in 13th century under the name Bukin. ” Bukinski rit ” Lovrenac is according to legit data recorded as the greatest hatchery of pike in the Danube armiet, extremely attractive for fishing and bird watching.

NOVA GAJDOBRA

A small village that is characteristic for potato production. The Orthodox Church in the village is a very important sacral facility in the village.

SILBAŠ

The first church in Silbas was raised little before 1755. The new church was built in 1759 and it was very small. The village is characteristic for watermelon growing, different species . . . and there is a day of celebration at the end of July.

GAJDOBRA

For the first time it was mentioned in 1464 under the name Dobra. The same place was mentioned in 1554, as a settlement  Gornja Dobra and Donja Dobra where were mostly Serbians. At the end of 1990 – s there was being built the Orthodox church St. Petra. Ther is importance of many doctors of science, recognized scientists and sport people.

DESPOTOVO

As the cultural development of the village is concerniS, it is important to mention the Cultural society Logovac from Dospotovo, which preserves folklore and traditional values.

Every year, ther is Ivandanski susreti held, and event that lasts three days and gathers folklore and good, old song lovers.

It is famous for hors races which are held twice a year, as same as for fishing place that  gives the pleasure of fishing.

PARAGE

The settlement is important for the municipality of diverse vegetable. For the first time it was mentioned in 1473. Filip Višnjić visited Parage in 1812, and the famous American writer Charles Alverson lived here.

VIZIĆ

In Vizić ther was born a poet Djordje Pisarev. A small village with several natural springs, inclined On National Park Fruška Gora, with amazing natural environment for an active rest. A path through the forest leads toward the monastery Djipsa and the natural location where the unique white garlic Sremus grows.

NEŠTIN

In 1759, Nestin got a new church. The iconostasis, work of Teodor Dimitrijevic Kracun was finished in 1773 and it is a masterpiece of baroque among Serbians. The village is famous for vine and for production of the wine of high quality. Association of wine makers, vinedressers and fruit growers Nestin, celebrates day of wine makers on February 14th. The museum house in Srem, family hause Savic, presents a developed type of a village house, which characterizes area of Srem in 18th century, made of wooden canes and mud. In the traditional Serbian style.

PIVNICE

Lazar Mirković, a history scientist,liturgical scientist, theologian and one of the founders of Theological University in Belgrade has the origin from Pivnice. Jovan Skerlić was through his mother line from Pivine, also mother of the Serbian patriarch Georgij Branković was by the origin Pivnice from the family Bikar. Now days the origin from production of Pivnicik cheese.

On both sides of the river there are picnic sites with tables and benches with 70 – 80 seats, the barbecue and drinking fountain in the shape of a wooden statue.

The track continues up the hill to a stream which is just above the river Rača and which is crossed by two wooden bridges, from where it leads further through the beech forest.

After a forty – minute walk you reach the wide cascades of Lađevac spring. Before the track was arranged, it had been visited only by those who knew about the healing properties of its water, good for curing skin deseases. In 17th century the monks of Rača named this place Banja ( Spa ) , because the temperature of its water is 17°C all year long.
Very close to Lađevac there used to be ” Rača copying school ” and a church dedicated to St. George, where ascets lived. Its remains are being explored by archeologists, who have found the foundations of the guest – house, together with the remains of monks’ cells.

The center of „ Rača copying school “ ( which was a kind of a workshop where the old Serbian Orthodox church liturgical books and manuscripts were copied by the monks ) was St. Georg ‘ s Chapel in Banja near the Monastery. In 1630 the Turkish dervish and writer Zulih ( Evlija Čelebija ) wrote that there were 300 self – educated copyists served by 400 shepherds, smiths, farmers and other servants, being guarded by even 200 armed guards!

The oldest work of this School was Kiprian’ s handwritten book of psalms dated from 1642, while the works of a monk called Hristifor Račanin had an outstanding value thanks to its attractive ornaments.

After the Great Migration of the Serbs in 1690, Kiprian collected and completed „ The elementary reading book of Slavic manuscripts ” in Sent Andrea, while Yerotei Račanin wrote „ A journey to Jerusalem ” , surely one of the oldest travel books ever preserved in the Serbian literature.

Kiprian’ s pupil Gavril Stefanović, the greatest Serbian orator and writer from 18th century, entered a monastic order of the Rača fraternity in the Church of St. Luke the Evangelist in Sent Andrea.

About fifteen books from the Rača school are kept and protected as parts of collections in Belgrade, Bologna, Budapest, Prague, Cavtat, Cetinje in Montenegro. . .

The story about the Monastery usually begins when we mention that it is 6km from Bajina Bašta. However, we won’ t make a mistake if we say that Bajina Bašta was established in the vicinity of this mediaeval temple itself.

Rača is said to be built in the 13th century as the foundation of the Serbian king Dragutin Nemanjić, who later became the monk named Teokist.

It is also believed that, after the Turkish invasion in the 15th century, there only remained the foundations of his ” imperial laura Raca by the River Drina ” , where the Church of Christ’ s Ascension can be seen today.

Historians admit that this place belongs to the most amazing secrets of Serbian spiritual, cultural, historical and architectural past. First notes about Raca were found in the church manuscripts and the Turkish notes written in the 16th century. The oldest trace was left in the the Holy Trinity monastery in Montenegro: „ this is where I, monk Teodor from Rača, have started writing. . . ” , were the words noted by an anonymous monk in 1516. Among fifty known manuscripts, the most interesting is for sure the chronicle from Sophia finished in 1675:  ” . . . Dragutin built the church dedicated to the Ascension of the Lord and named it Raca. . . ” .

The history of Raca has been a puzzle with keys in hands of archeologists, until the well – known copying workshop was built in the 17th century. The first decades of that ” Raca copying school ” , where old Serbian liturgical books and manuscripts were copied, have not been studied enough, although it is an outstanding landmark in the history of the Serbian literature. There are few testimonies about the Monastery church at Lanište and its smaller unit called ” St. George’ s skit ” at Banja, where the liturgical books were copied. After the Monastery was destroyed in the Wienna war and  during the Great Migration of the Serbs in 1690, the Racans established a base of  the Serbian alphabet and literature in Sent Andrea in the century to come.

A century later, the fraternity of Tronoša Monastery were interested in Raca Monastery, so the monks named Hadzi Melentius, Josif and Isaiah moved there and built it again from its ruins. The Monastery church was reconstructed in less than five months, which was an outstanding work lasting from August 1795 to Christmas 1796, when the temple was sanctified. Hower, the reconstructed monastery of the Archimandrite Hadzi Melentius Stefanovic, who also was known as the Duke of Soko Parish, hadn’ t survived the storm of Serbian uprising and was burnt down again in 1813 by Memish – aga, a mighty landowner and military commander from Srebrenica.

In 1818 during the second reconstruction of the Monastery, with Hadži Melentius in charge again, a sustainable financial support was given by the Serbian Duke Miloš Obrenović. The building of the Church of Christ’ s Ascension was finished in 1826 and other parts of the monastery ten years later. In a thank – you – letter sent to the Duke there was written:  ” Our kind Master, the Monastery was quite well built. We are of the same opinion as numerous visitors who come here, that it hadn’ t been built better even the first time by the Nemanjics.  ” The look of the Church hadn’ t changed since 1836, except that in the middle of the 19th century its interior was painted.

In the 20th century the enemy conquering armies passed through Raca. One of the first to stand against the Austria – Hungary occupation was Zaharije Milekić, a prior of the Monastery. During the World War II, the Gospel Book of Prince Miroslav’ s ( a manuscript of priceless value and the greatest and most significant written monument of the Serbian literature from the 12th century )  was hidden and saved from destruction under the altar. The Bulgarian soldiers burnt the guest – house of the Monastery, but fortunately, the orthodox Church itself wasn’ t damaged. Thanks to his Holiness the Serbian Patriarch Pavle who once used to be a monk in Raca, a part of the holy relics belonging to king Dragutin, now can be seen in Raca where they really belong.

MONASTERY CHURCH AND THE TREASURY

The temple dedicated to the Ascension of Jesus Christ was built by Janja Mihailović Mali and Nikola Đorđević Cincarin, having St. Achilius’ Church in the town of Arilje as a model.

The other well – known works by those respectful constructors are the Duchess Ljubica’ s residence in Belgrade, then the Duke Miloš’ residence and the church at Topčider Park. The Monastery church at Rača, made of limestone, makes an impression of accurate craftwork due to traditional church construction pattern of the old Serbian Raška construction school.

The basis of the Church in the shape of a free cross with a spacious semicircular apsida is 22m long, while the transversal with two places for the choir is 13, 7m wide. Including its dome, the church is about 20 meters high.

The iconostasis and fresco paintings help to make a whole impression of harmony and tranquility in Rača. They have got all features of church paintings which had their roots in the post Byzantine tradition, but also influenced by western art schools, especially late province baroque. The iconostasis, painted in 1840 by Georgije Bakalović, is quite large and impressive ( 6, 5m x 3, 5m ) with 38 icons painted in oil and the frames carved in lindenwood. The original, damaged over the years, was skilfully restored in 2005 by painters Duško Jovanović and Dragan Tomanović. The painting which was completed in 1854, is a perfectly preserved work by a Slavonian painter Dimitrije Postniković, who painted it in dry plaster and who covered the inner walls of the Church with more than a hundred smaller and bigger paintings showing numerous standing human figures and portraits.

Next to the emperors gate there is a part of the Holy relics of monk Teoktist, which is a right upper arm of the King Dragutin Nemanjić. In a new guest – house there is the Monastery treasury collection, where visitors can admire the manuscripts copies dating from 17th and 18th century. However, the most important exhibit is a model of the Gospel Book of Prince Miroslav’ s ( a manuscript of priceless value and the most significant monument of the Serbian literature in the 12th century ) , whose original was saved from destruction and oblivion in the World War II by the prior Platon Milojević, who dag it under the stone plates in the Church altar. The most important place is reserved for the holy dining table where in 1813 the Turks from Srebrenica beheaded the abbot Isaiah and deacon Ignjatie. There is also the duke’ s banner of the Soko Parish, which Hadzi Melentije Stefanovic carried in the First Serbian uprising.

Regarding its water potential it holds the first place in the Balkan Peninsula, and it is the most beautiful one in the opinion of many people.

Fast and mysterious, clean and clear, powerful and generous at the same time, the Drina is said to be a heaven for fishermen and true nature lovers.

Among variety of fishes inhabiting its waters, a huchen and greyling stand out. Long time ago due to its green colour it was known as Zelenika ( the green one ) .

The Vrelo river springs out of the masiff of Mt Tara and after its short flow falls down into the Drina river making a beautiful waterfall.

The clean and clear river is only 365m long

and people living in Perućac call it A-year-long river.

lt is 52km long spreading towards Visegrad and Andric’ s The bridge over the Drina ( Serbian winner of the Nobel prize for literature in 1961 ) .

Fishermen will enjoy here catching capital specimens of cat fish, trout, chub, clamp or some other fish.

Bajina Bašta with its population of 9000 inhabitants is situated at the foot of Mt. Tara on the right bank of the Drina river and is the center of this region.

lt attracts lots of visitors and tourists for different reasons: sport and recreation, fun, entertainment, or beautiful countryside, peace, quiet and spirituality.

Lots of events through the year will make your stay in Bajina Basta even more interesting and memorable.