Theme Week Serbia – Kragujevac

27 June 2026 | Author/Destination: | Category: General Reading Time:  8 minutes

Princely Serbian Theatre © Струјајое/cc-by-sa-3.0

Princely Serbian Theatre © Струјајое/cc-by-sa-3.0

Kragujevac is the fourth largest city in Serbia and the administrative centre of the Šumadija District. It is the historical centre of the geographical region of Šumadija in central Serbia, and is situated on the banks of the Lepenica River. According to the 2022 census, the city itself has a population of 146,318 while the city administrative area has 171,186 inhabitants.   read more…

Theme Week Serbia – Novi Pazar

26 June 2026 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, UNESCO World Heritage Reading Time:  6 minutes

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© Planeti/cc-by-sa-4.0

Novi Pazar is a city located in the Raška District of southwestern Serbia. As of the 2022 census, the urban area has 71,462 inhabitants, while the city administrative area has 106,720 inhabitants. The city is the cultural center of the Bosniaks in Serbia and of Sandžak. A multicultural area of Muslims and Orthodox Christians, many monuments of both religions, like the Altun-Alem Mosque and the Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, are located in the region which has a total of 30 protected monuments of culture.   read more…

Theme Week Serbia – Smederevo

25 June 2026 | Author/Destination: | Category: General Reading Time:  5 minutes

Republic Square © Sstruja/cc-by-sa-3.0

Republic Square © Sstruja/cc-by-sa-3.0

Smederevo is a city and the administrative center of the Podunavlje District in eastern Serbia. It is situated on the right bank of the Danube, about 45 kilometres (28 miles) downstream of the Serbian capital, Belgrade. According to the 2022 census, the city has a population of 59,261, with 97,930 people living in its administrative area.   read more…

Theme Week Serbia – Niš

24 June 2026 | Author/Destination: | Category: General Reading Time:  6 minutes

Tinkers Alley © Bojan Lazarevic - ZivojinMisic slike/cc-by-sa-3.0

Tinkers Alley © Bojan Lazarevic – ZivojinMisic slike/cc-by-sa-3.0

Niš, less often spelled in English as Nish, is the third largest city in Serbia and the administrative center of the Nišava District. It is located in the southern part of Serbia. According to the 2022 census, the city proper has a population of 178,976, while its administrative area has a population of 249,501 inhabitants.   read more…

Theme Week Serbia – Subotica

23 June 2026 | Author/Destination: | Category: General Reading Time:  6 minutes

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© Lukder/cc-by-sa-4.0

Subotica is a city in Central Europe and the administrative center of the North Bačka District in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. Formerly the largest city of Vojvodina region, contemporary Subotica is now the second largest city in the province, following the city of Novi Sad. According to the 2022 census, the city proper has a population of 88,752, while the population of the administrative area of the city stands at 123,952 people.   read more…

Theme Week Serbia

22 June 2026 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Bon voyage, Theme Weeks Reading Time:  7 minutes

National Assembly in Belgrade © Boris Dimitrov/cc-by-sa-3.0

National Assembly in Belgrade © Boris Dimitrov/cc-by-sa-3.0

Serbia, officially the Republic of Serbia, is a landlocked country in Southeast and Central Europe. Located in the Balkans, it is bordered by Hungary in the north, Romania in the northeast, Bulgaria in the southeast, North Macedonia in the south, Croatia in the northwest, Bosnia and Herzegovina in the west, and Montenegro in the southwest. Serbia also claims to share a border with Albania through the disputed territory of Kosovo. Serbia has about 6.6 million inhabitants, excluding Kosovo. Belgrade, Serbia’s capital, is also its largest city.   read more…

Meze

19 January 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Bon appétit, Union for the Mediterranean Reading Time:  10 minutes

Israeli meze © flickr.com - Ted Eytan/cc-by-sa-2.0

Israeli meze © flickr.com – Ted Eytan/cc-by-sa-2.0

Meze (also spelled mezze or mezé) is a selection of small dishes served as appetizers in eastern Mediterranean cuisines: Syria, Iraq, Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iran, Armenia. It is similar to Spanish tapas and Italian antipasti. A meze may be served as a part of a multi-course meal or form a meal in itself. Meze are often served with spirits such as arak, rakia, raki, oghi, ouzo, or grappa at meyhane and ouzeri or at regular restaurants.   read more…

The Carpathians

4 April 2015 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Environment Reading Time:  7 minutes

Bear in Sinaia - Romania © Metastabil01

Bear in Sinaia – Romania © Metastabil01

The Carpathian Mountains or Carpathians are a range of mountains forming an arc roughly 1,500 km (932 mi) long across Central and Eastern Europe, making them the second-longest mountain range in Europe. They provide the habitat for the largest European populations of brown bears, wolves, chamois and lynxes, with the highest concentration in Romania, as well as over one third of all European plant species. The Carpathians and their piedmont also concentrate many thermal and mineral waters, with Romania home to over one-third of the European total.   read more…

Novi Sad in Serbia

16 October 2014 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, European Union, European Capital of Culture Reading Time:  6 minutes

Dunavska street © Micki/cc-by-sa-3.0

Dunavska street © Micki/cc-by-sa-3.0

Novi Sad is the second largest city in Serbia, the administrative seat of the province of Vojvodina and of the South Ba?ka District. It is located in the southern part of Pannonian Plain, on the border of the Ba?ka and Syrmia regions, on the banks of the Danube river, facing the northern slopes of Fruška Gora mountain.   read more…

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