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Every person likes to travel, to meet new people, traditions, customs. These are some photos from my favourite trip - to Rome. I fell in love with Rome, and I think that love will never end.

These are facades of Rome.

This is how Montenegrin coast looks like when the weather is ugly. That is the time when I like being close to the sea because than I can hear the anger of the waves.
The peer in Budva


On the beach Ricardova Glava in Budva


The beach Pizana in Budva


The sunset on the open sea


The entrance in Boka Kotorska bay - island Mamula and peninsula Prevlaka

This is my hometown Paracin, small town in a central part of Serbia, in a vallley of a river Velika Morava. Here was settlement before Romans started their conquest of a Balkan peninsula. Though Paracin (roman name - Sarmates) was on a main road to Constantinopolis, here was a station of a roman army to change tired horses and to take a small pause before countinuing the long way.
In the middle ages it's name was Parakinov brod (in translation - The boat of Parakin). The presumption is that across the river - Morava or Crnica, which runs through Paracin was a boat for transporting the vehicles, people and horses. Long time after that here was a mercantile center. Today it is one of the most beautiful towns in a central part of Serbia, with a very rich history and several important monasteries near by - such as Ravanica - XIV century, Manasija - XIV - XV century, Sveta Petka (St. Veneranda) - XIV century.


The church of St. Trinity in the center of Paracin


Through the center of Paracin runs river Crnica

Long time I haven't put any new photo on my SU page, it's time to put something new, from my recent journeys.

Nice stumbler, very humorous but not in the mean way. Visit his pages if you want to relax and learn something new

February 17th, Saturday - I went with the mountaineers on a mountain Suva Planina, about 20 km south from city Nis. We started from a place called Donji Dusnik on 600m above the sea level. Till the summit Trem (1810m) we had a two stops. First one near the big beech (900m above the sea level) and near the Girl's grave (1420m). The climbing had last 5 hours.
Here are the photos, though it was foggy weather the photos are good.

Sirogojno - village on Mt. Zlatibor in west Serbia. "Sirogojno" - the name known all over the world for its hand made woollen jumpers which have been designed by Zlatibor peasant women. This traditional art and craft of knitting has been recognised all over the world as a timeless fashion. The "Old Village" Museum is an evident effort have done to preserve, protect and revive the tradition.
The open air "Old Village" ("Staro selo") Museum at Sirogojno represents the village dwelling culture on Mt. Zlatibor. To save at least a part of this cultural heritage a number of authentic objects and buildings have been transferred to the present site of the Museum and conserved in order to be used for further research and to be exibited for the public.

The Museum has a particularly elaborate programme to revive old local arts and crafts. Copies of objects of fine workmanship are produced in the workshop of the Museum: pottery, hand printed textiles, utensils of wood and iron. There are also new products inspired by an ancient artistic traditional, but adapted to the needs and tastes of modern man.
A few buildings have been adapted for other activities listed in the Museum programme. Several buildings are intended for visitors: a shop selling the handicrafts of Sirogojno, carpenter's and potter's workshops and a shop for selling medicinal herbs and herbal teas. For summer entertainment, lectures, conserts, literature meetings and other programmes, a special small theatre was built to suit the needs and architecture of the Museum. In case of rain of cold weather programmes take place in a converted barn which is used for different exhibitions as well. One of the old houses located a little further from the Museum site has been transformed into a tavern and a few smaller buildings have been adapted for summer school participants to live in.
The "Old Village" Museum protects not only the buildings in it but the whole traditional art and craft of the building industry of the Zlatibor region. All the selected buildings that have been put on exhibition are equally veluable though it can't be said with certainty when exactly each of them was built and who were their constructors. Having in mind their layout, structure and shape their architectural features must have originated from the early medieval period. The "Old Village" Museum exhibits represent the life in Zlatibor village in 19 century.

Rajacke Pivnice (Pimnice) - translation: The wine cellars of Rajac,
are near the Serbian-bulgarian border, in East Serbia, 20 km south
from town Negotin. About 1km from the wine cellars which are on the
top of the hill is a village Rajac, where live the owners of the cellars.
The wineyards are on the same geographic paralel as the wineyards in Bretagna -
France and they have about 265 sunny days in the year, which only have the
island Hvar (Croatia) in ex Yugoslavia.

This small place on the hill has about 270 hoses made of a sand-stone
which are predicted for making and keeping the wine in the big wooden
barrels. This houses were built 200 years ago but there is suspicion
that on this place was settlement even in 16th and 17th century. The stone
walls are about 80 cm wide, and the temperature inside of the walls is
allways between 12-16 degrees of Celsius (53-60 Degrees of Farenheit).

It is well known that in the 1880-ies, french wineyards were ill from
Phyloxera, so the wine-producers were coming in Rajac for a vine and wine.
They payed it very expensive, with "Napoleon's gold coins".


Very famous is a red wine from Rajac made of a different sorts of
grapes: bagrina, zacinak, black tamjanika, game boyader...