City breakCulture
Serbia · 4 nights4★ BoutiqueBelgrade & Novi Sad City Break
- Kalemegdan fortress
- Novi Sad old town
- Wine tasting
Includes accommodation · private transfers · daily breakfast · guided sightseeing
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$860 pp
Things to do in Serbia
14 places worth the trip in Serbia, grouped by what they are. Every guide explains what to see, the best time to go and the practical details, checked against official sources. Best time to visit Serbia: May–Sep.
Mosques & temples in Serbia
Religious site
Brezova, near Ušće, Raška District, central Serbia
Studenica Monastery
Founded by Stefan Nemanja around 1190, Studenica is the largest and richest Serbian Orthodox monastery, famed for its white-marble Church of the Virgin and early 13th-century frescoes.
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Vračar, Belgrade
Temple of Saint Sava
Belgrade's great white-domed church honours Saint Sava, founder of the Serbian Orthodox Church. Built over most of a century, it is one of the largest Orthodox churches, and its interior shimmers with some 15,000 square metres of mosaic.
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Dorćol, Stari Grad, Belgrade
Bajrakli Mosque
A modest domed mosque with a slender minaret in the old Dorćol quarter, Bajrakli is the only one of Ottoman Belgrade's many mosques still standing and remains the city's main active mosque.
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City
Novi Sad, Vojvodina
Novi Sad and Petrovaradin Fortress
Serbia's second city pairs a walkable centre of pastel squares and churches with Petrovaradin Fortress across the Danube, an 18th-century Habsburg stronghold with a reversed clock tower, artists' studios and miles of tunnels.
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Stari Grad, Belgrade
Skadarlija and Knez Mihailova
Two faces of old Belgrade: Knez Mihailova, the protected pedestrian high street running to Kalemegdan, and Skadarlija, a cobbled lane of taverns and live folk music that became the city's bohemian heart around 1900.
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Zemun, Belgrade
Zemun and Gardoš Tower
Belgrade's 'city within the city': old Zemun's Austro-Hungarian streets lead up Gardoš Hill to the Millennium Tower, with sweeping views over the Danube, and down to a lively riverside promenade.
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National park
Bajina Bašta, Zlatibor District, western Serbia
Tara National Park
A densely forested mountain park wrapped in a bend of the Drina, with cliff-top viewpoints over Lake Perućac, the Serbian spruce, brown bears and the famous little house on a rock in the river.
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Srem, Vojvodina
Fruška Gora National Park
A long, low wooded ridge rising from the Vojvodina plain south of Novi Sad, Fruška Gora was declared Serbia's first national park in 1960 and shelters 16 Orthodox monasteries among its forests and vineyards.
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Golubac to Kladovo, Braničevo and Bor Districts, eastern Serbia
Đerdap National Park & Iron Gates
Along roughly 100 km of the Danube on the Romanian border, Đerdap combines the dramatic Iron Gates gorge with Golubac Fortress, the prehistoric settlement of Lepenski Vir and Roman remains.
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Heritage
Stari Grad, Belgrade
Belgrade Fortress
Belgrade's historic citadel stands on a ridge where the Sava meets the Danube. Its Upper and Lower Towns, gates and towers record two thousand years of history, and the surrounding Kalemegdan Park is the city's favourite promenade.
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Niš, Nišava District, southern Serbia
Niš – Fortress & Skull Tower
In the heart of Niš, a well-preserved Ottoman fortress with four gates and the Bali-Bey Mosque, and nearby the Skull Tower, a sobering memorial of the 1809 Battle of Čegar.
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Mountain
Zlatibor and Mokra Gora, Čajetina and Užice, western Serbia
Zlatibor & Mokra Gora – Šargan Eight railway
Rolling pine-clad highlands with Serbia's longest-running tourist resort, a 9 km gondola to Tornik, and in nearby Mokra Gora the narrow-gauge Šargan Eight railway and Drvengrad timber village.
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Raška and Brus, central-southern Serbia
Kopaonik
Kopaonik is Serbia's best-known ski resort and a national park, with snowy slopes in winter and meadows, forests, waterfalls and endemic plants in summer, crowned by Pančić's Peak at 2,017 m.
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Serbia holiday packages
Serbia · 4 nights4★ BoutiqueNatureCulture
Serbia · 8 nights4★ HotelSerbia Monasteries & Mountains
- Tara National Park
- Studenica
- Drina rafting
Includes accommodation · private transfers · daily breakfast · guided sightseeing
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$1,439 pp