Serbia - Cruises on the Danube and city tours

The main tourist destinations in Serbia are primarily the capital Belgrade and the other major cities of Novi Sad, Niš, Kragujevac and Subotica, but also smaller towns such as Jagodina, Užice, Požarevac and numerous health resorts, including Vrnjačka Banja and Sokobanja, or the Kopaonik and Zlatibor mountains as well as the Danube, which is used by cruise ships and boats.
In the past, Serbia was often a borderland of important empires. The border between Western and Eastern Rome once ran along the Drina through Serbian areas. There were several important Roman legionary camps (Singidunum), large cities (Sirmium, Viminatium) and imperial residences (Sirmium, Naissus, Mediana, Felix Romuliana) of late antiquity on the Sava, Danube and along the Via militaris.
The architecture in Serbia is as diverse as the country's history. Byzantine architecture is important, especially in the numerous Serbian monasteries, some of which have been included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
The most important patrons of architecture were the members of the Nemanjid ruling dynasty. Since the construction of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher by the dynastic founder Stefan Nemanja in the Studenica Monastery, all other Serbian kings have acted as patrons of the arts and, in particular, of religious architecture.
From this, the fresco painters developed a special style and a certain content, which is visibly different from both the subject matter in the Serbian churches of the 13th century and the iconographic content of those large ensembles that were created around the middle of the 14th century. In the Milutin school of painting, which belonged to the so-called Palaiological Renaissance, a whole army of painters, of whom the names of the Greek court painters Mikhail Astrapas and Eutychios have come down to us, worked on the fresco design of Milutin's numerous foundations in Serbia, Thessaloniki, Constantinople, the Holy Mount Athos and Jerusalem.
There is also a rich “independent” music scene in Serbia, which can be linked to the youth scenes in the former Yugoslavia, which were suppressed during the time of the Milošević regime. These include electronica acts like Darkwood Dub or indie rock combos like the Partibrejkers. Well-known popular Serbian singers of various genres include Đorđe Balašević, Lepa Brena, Neda Ukraden, Željko Joksimović, Mile Kitić, Aca Lukas, Marija Šerifović, Zdravko Čolić and Ceca.