The two castles located in Veliko Središte belonged to the Lazarević family. Founder of the family, Golub Lazarević settled in Središte in 1803, and in 1841 the family attained nobility and received the title ” of Malo and Veliko Središte ” . After that, the family erected two castles. The first castle was built in classical style, [...]

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This castle was built by Count Djerdj Mechonji in 1859 but it is commonly associated with the Bissingen family who had owned the castle until World War II. At the beginning of 20th century, the owneress of the castle possessed, according to historical data a library of several thousand volumes, antique furniture and valuable items of [...]

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The present – day Town Library was first opened as a Public and School Library in 1887. It was founded by Felix Milleker. The Town Library of Vršac continued the work originally initiated and carried out by the institutions of Serbian Kasina ( 1838 ) and Serbian Reading Room ( 1840 ) . For that [...]

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The first Orthodox Church in Vršac was built in 1728, during NikolaDimitrijević’ s time as the Bishop. Bishops Josif Jovanović – Sakabenta ( 1805 ) , Petar Jovanović vidak ( 1818 ) , Emilijan Kengelac ( 1885 ) , Nektarije Dimitrijević ( 1895 ) , Georgije Letic ( 1933 ) , Vikentije Vujic ( 1939  [...]

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Vršac acquired its Town Hall after Serbian Vršac and German Vršac, the two Vršac’ s municipalities which had existed as separate administrative units from 1717, merged into a single town, in 1795. It was the house of Maksim Spasić that was first rented to serve the needs of the town’ s administration but soon after [...]

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Starting from Rača Monastery, you can reach Lađevac spring and the remains of Rača copying school at Banja, following a two – kilometer long marked track up the right bank of the river Rača. The first third is macadam which goes past the storehouses and meadows belonging to the monastery and the river itself, to [...]

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Serdar Mićić’ s inn was built in 1823 and it probably belonged to the serdar of the Nahija (county) of Užice, Jovan Mićić. It is said that serdar Mićić was a skillful organizer, diplomat and a fearless warrior. One legend says that the Tarabić predicted that the great politician would die of hunger which really [...]

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The nature was extremely generous to Belgrade and it endowed the city with every possible gift. Belgrade has an extraordinary location, it has two rivers, the Sava and the Danube, and true jewels that come with the rivers – the islands. The island of Ada Ciganlija, a sports, recreation, cultural and entertainment center as well as [...]

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The Great War Island is one of the most representative ecological and visual images of Belgrade, with its characteristic flora and fauna. It is located right at the confluence of the rivers Sava and Danube and has always represented an area of military and strategic importance for Belgrade – whenever the city was being conquered or [...]

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Unlike in other world metropolises, Belgrade’ s the Botanical Garden Jevremovac, is located in the very heart of the city or more precisely between the streets: Bulevar Despota Stefana, Dalmatinska,Takovska and Vojvode Dobrnjca. It was founded in 1889. The open section of the Garden has approximately 350 tree and bush species and about 700 herbs species of [...]

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