Of course, Serbia is still difficult to call the "untwisted" direction - however, in one of the types of tourism it will now easily give odds to many countries .It's about health and wellness tours: local resorts are rightfully considered one of the best in Europe in terms of the number and combination of medical factors .At the same time they have quite modern equipment and put on their services extremely moderate for "average European" standards of the price .Other pluses of Serbia tourist: good nature, mild climate, ample opportunities for hunting and fishing and a good historical "excursion" .

Modestly peeking over the shoulder of the more hyped neighbors in Europe, winter Serbia can lure the current picky tourist with low prices, a close flight and a Slavic soul..The condition of the slopes can not be determined unambiguously - to the mind, rather, the optimistic phrase "he will try" is .And Serbia is really trying hard: new routes appear every year, as well as "adult chips" like night riding .Another plus is the extremely affordable ski schools with Russian-speaking instructors .

The capital is Belgrade, the major cities are Subotica, Novi Sad, Nis.

Balneological resorts of Serbia: Banya-Kovilyacha, Buyanovka-Banya, Vrnjacka-Banya, Zlatibor, Nishka-Banya, Soko-Banya.

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How to get to Serbia

Regular flights Moscow-Belgrade are performed by Aeroflot and JAT Airways, the flight time is approximately 2, 5 hours. A number of airlines also offer flights with a transfer in the cities of Europe. Another option is to fly by plane S7 to Podgorica (the capital of Montenegro), and from there, get on the train to Belgrade, or fly to Tivat by charter, then by train to Serbia.

The Moscow-Belgrade non-stop car travels around Hungary for about two days, so a transit Hungarian visa is required for this route.

Visa

Citizens of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus do not need a visa to visit Serbia for up to 30 days.

Customs in Serbia

Import and export of foreign currency and securities in currency is not limited, declaring is not necessary, however, free export of foreign currency is possible within the amount up to 2000 EUR. Above this, it is allowed to export only what was previously imported and declared.

Persons over 16 years of age can be imported duty-free to Serbia up to a liter of wine and strong alcoholic beverages, up to 200 cigarettes or 50 cigars or 250 g of tobacco, up to 250 ml of cologne or 100 ml of perfume.

It is prohibited to import drugs, poisons, psychotropic and explosive substances, gold in raw form and in coins, weapons (only hunting weapons are allowed at the request of the Association of Hunters of Serbia) and ammunition, as well as pesticides. Export of objects of cultural, historical and artistic value is possible only with the permission of the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations of Serbia.

Useful phone numbers are

Embassy of Serbia in Moscow: st. Mosfilmovskaya, 46; tel .: (499) 147-41-06, 147-90-08

Embassy of Russia in Belgrade: Deligradska, 32; tel .: (11) 361-10-90, 361-13-23; website

Information desk: 998, tourist information: 987, police: 92, fire brigade: 93, first aid: 94

City codes: Belgrade - 11, Novi Sad - 21, Subotica - 24, Niš - 18.

Transport of Serbia

The main railway line runs from Subotica via Novi Sad, Belgrade, Nis and then through Kosovo to Macedonia..In addition, one more line leads from Belgrade to the Adriatic coast .There are four types of train: "express" (express), "proverbs" (fast), "brzi" (high-speed) and "putniki" (passenger) .Prices for different categories of trains are different, but tickets are generally inexpensive .Trip Belgrade - Bar in a second class car will cost about 4-5 EUR .In the summer season the number of trains increases +/- $ .On a passing train to buy a ticket is quite difficult, so it is worth reserving the seats in advance .Most trains have non-smoking compartments .

The bus transport is quite well developed in the country: it is only accessible from Bar to Budva and Ulcinj, to Kosovo (though it is better not to do this) and the monasteries of Southern Serbia.

Taxi is a very convenient and inexpensive means of transportation in any city in Serbia. Another thing is that many local taxi drivers are used to deceive tourists, using their ignorance of the terrain - so the latter has the direct sense of always having a map of the city and at least approximately representing the distance and the route to the destination. A taxi, ordered by phone, will cost 10-20% less than a random car caught on the street.

Public transport in cities for the most part - old cars are not in the best condition. Tickets for travel are sold in any newsstand - they need to be composted by logging into the transport. Either pay for the travel by tram or bus directly to the driver, but then the fare will almost double.

Rent a car

To take a car in Serbia, nothing supernatural is required: only international law, a mortgage and an age of at least 21 years.

Tourist information boards and road signs on Serbian roads are usually absent, and the available signs are often pasted with advertisements until completely unreadable. The driving style of the car by local residents is quite unique and requires a certain addiction.

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Safety of tourists in Serbia

The security situation in the country is ambiguous. Despite the fact that the police strictly suppress any manifestations of deception of foreign tourists, on a "household level" cases of petty fraud often happen. Tourists should beware of scammers, especially those active in the foreign exchange market, as well as pickpockets, often "working" at the airport, in public places and in places of large crowds.

You should not carry valuables, documents and large sums of money with you - nor should you show a purse in crowded places or leave things on the front seat of the car during stops. Isolated areas, including remote areas of cities, should be avoided after dark.

Since November 2010 in Serbia, the law banning smoking in public places came into effect. The new rules do not require a complete cessation of smoking in cafes and restaurants, but only oblige the owners of the establishments to set up a non-smoking room. In offices, theaters, cinemas and concert halls, smoking is completely prohibited. Penalty - 5 thousand dinars (47 euros).

View of Belgrade

Multicolored roofs of mansions in Subotica

Fortress Golubac

The climate of Serbia is

In Serbia, temperate continental climate with warm summers (up to +30 ° C) and snowy winters (-5 ° ..- 10 ° C). The best time to visit the country is from May to September-October, unless, of course, it's not about "skiing."

Actual information: weather forecast for the main resorts of Serbia for the next few days.

Hotels in Serbia

Serbian hotels and sanatoriums have been experiencing a recent recovery: the existing ones are being restored and renovated, new ones are being opened. However, there is still a lot to do in this area. The best object of accommodation in the country now is the Belgrade Hyatt Regency.

Electricity: 220 V, 50 Hz. Sockets and plugs of "European" type, with grounding. In rural areas, old type connectors are often found - round two-pronged, without grounding.

Banks and exchange points

Exchange offices are open from Monday to Friday from 7:00 to 16:00. In addition to them, you can change the currency in the branches of banks. In public places (railway stations, airports) there are vending machines for currency exchange, but it should be remembered that in Serbia even in a number of located "exchangers" the rate can vary quite significantly.

Cuisine and Restaurants in Serbia

Serbian cuisine is very diverse and can satisfy almost any taste. The cheapest snack here is the Balkan "burek", a puff cake with cheese or meat. "Krompyrusa" - the same burek, only potato.

In Serbia, pepper ground meat - "Chevapchichi" is famous. Another local culinary "celebrity", "dvech" is a pork cutlet with pepper, tomatoes and rice cooked in the oven. Popular dishes are also "moussaka" - eggplants and tomatoes with layers of ground meat, cabbage "sarma" and "kapama" - yogurt filled with yogurt stewed with onion and salad.

Popular drinks: beer, grape brandy (here it is called "vinyak") and strong Turkish coffee, brewed in small jezvah.

Entertainment, Excursions and Attractions of Serbia

In Belgrade, it is worth visiting the Ada-Siganliya Park, the National Museum in the Republic Square with an extensive archaeological collection and collection of paintings, the house of Prince Milos, the Old Palace, the Ethnographic Museum in Student's Square, the Fresco Gallery, the Palace of Princess Ljubica.

Not far from Belgrade, in Smederevo, is the largest flat fortress in Europe - Brankovich, occupying an area of ​​11 hectares and surrounded by a whole complex of structures of "Small" and "Big" cities.

In Kragujevac, you can get a lot of impressions from looking at the beautiful cathedral in the Byzantine style.

The village of Kusturica is a unique "wooden city", which is located on the picturesque mountain Mecavnik .After in Sarajevo, the hometown of the Serbian film director Emir Kusturica, during the civil war his childhood home was burned, the master refused to come there and was always looking for a place that could replace his house .And it was found during filming with the nature of his film "Life as a miracle", near the village of Mokra Gora .These remote highlands of Serbia have become a place for the construction of a village that has three names at once: Drvengrad (serb .tree), Kyustendorf, Mechavnik .The village of Drvengrad, which Kusturica built on its own money for the film "Life as a miracle" and opened in 2004, and became the house where he wanted to stay forever..The village consists of 30 houses, assembled from different parts of Serbia and built without a single nail .The Balkan Fellini (after all, this is what they call Kusturica) gathers here a world-class filmmaker for festivals and creative meetings..Visiting the village can also tourists, because there are 4-star rooms on 110 beds .

Subotica is the northernmost city of Serbia and the largest Magyar-speaking city in the country. More than half of the population here speaks Hungarian, and the city and its surroundings are a kind of spectacle with a clear national color. The Old Town Hall with the Historical Museum, the City Museum, the Art Gallery in the Lenin Park, the Subotica Episcopate on Harambasicheva Street, the Gothic St. George's Cathedral, the Gradská Kucha Complex, the Reich Castle and other buildings built by the architect Ferenc Reichl are of interest here. br>

Novi Sad is interesting with the fortress of Petrovaradin and the museums of the Revolution, Painting and Archeology .Also worthy of attention are the Church of the Great Martyr St. George, the Assumption Church, the St. Nicholas Church, the Catholic Church of St. Rock, the Vavedenska (Petropavlovskaya) Church in the complex of the Military Hospital of Petrovaradin, the Franciscan Monastery of Sv .Ivan Kapistran and several others .The rich cultural heritage of the city is preserved by numerous museums, among which the most interesting are the Museum of Vojvodina and the ethnic complex of Brnnar .

The city of Nis is historically a crossroads between the east and west of Europe, between the cultures of Asia Minor and Europe on the one hand, and between the Slavic world and Islam on the other. The number of local historical buildings is huge, and many of them are not in the Nis, but in the surrounding towns and villages. Almost the whole area around the city is one big historical and cultural reserve.

Not far from the town of Cacak in the beautiful gorge of the Morava River is the "Serbian Athos" - a monastic complex, often called Troitsky. There on the picturesque slope of the Ovchar mountain there are Vvedensky, Voznesensky, Preobrazhensky, Sretensky and Holy Trinity monasteries, and on the other bank of the Morava, under the mountain Kablar - the monasteries of Blagoveshchensky, Nikolsky and John the Baptist (Jovan).

National Parks

In Serbia there are several national parks: Mount Kopaonik, Shar, Fruska-Gora and the unique Danube gorge Djerdap. Protected areas also include Obedsk-God, Lake Ladasko, Charska God, the reserves of Deliblatska Pescara, Dyavolya Varos, Zasavitsa, Karadzhordievo, Vrtlo-Mlave, Krupazko-Vrelo, Lake Vlasinsko and the canyons of the rivers Uvach and Gradach. ±​​$ br >

The Djerdap reserve is located in the eastern part of the country on the border with Romania. The most interesting in it: Djerdap gorge, the parking of Mesolithic hunters Lepenski-Vir, the ancient bridge of Trajan and the medieval Golubatskaya fortress of the 14th century. Local livestock - bears, lynxes, wolves, jackals, white-tailed eagle, eagle owls, black storks and many others.

The Kopaonik National Park in the southwestern part of Central Serbia is home to wolves, wild boars, roe deer, foxes, hares, ermines and wolverines - well, there are 148 species of birds there.

In the reserve of Tara, which is in the western part of the country, live brown bear, chamois, roe deer, lynx, otter, wolves and more than 100 species of birds, including golden eagle, white-headed sip, peregrine falcon, Eurasian eagle owl and black grouse.

Well, in the national park Fruska-gora in the shadow of beautiful broad-leaved forests, reindeer with roe deer roam and many birds nest, including white and black stork, eagle-burial, saker, black kite.

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