Kremna is the place in the valley carrying the same name, which is diving two famous mountains in Western Serbia, Zlatibor and Tara. Settlements developed since the ancient times thanks to the positive conditions of fertile basin and mountainous surrounding. The roads led thorough Šaragan that connected the canyon of western Morava with the canyon of Drina. After the First World War, the railway was made there, and the massif of Šargan was mastered by the famous technical solution of “Šargan’s Eight”, where from the 800 m of altitude, where Kremna is, the train comes down to 450 m of altitude, to place where Mokra Gora is.

Dr Radovan Kazimirović describes this place in Kremna Prophecy “ The countryside around Kremna is like a boundless garden speckled with conifer trees, which look as if they are mumbling to the breeze of wind in the harmony, in which everything lives, everything shines, everything sparks with cheer and happiness. The horizon cracks on several places to give way to Šargan and Čigota, resembling very large flower pots with evergreen in it, and to your eyes it gives endless view as far as to Durmitor and Avala…”.

It is said that once long ago the summer castles of the Nemanjićs were in Kremna.

In oral folk tradition, besides the legend of the Nemanjićs castle, there was also “ The watchtower of Kremna governor” the birthplace of Kostresh The Outlaw, Inn at Moljkovićs’ but the greatest popularity to Kremna was brought by the well-known Tarabić’s Prophecy, recorded by the orthodox priest Zaharije Zaharić.

The Altitude of the village hamlets of Kremna is between 750 and 850 m. To this perfect climate, we add flower fields, mountain meadows bound by conifer trees, mountain brooks and clear fresh springs. All of that defined Kremna as the air bath at the beginning of the XX century.

In the western part of the village, in Šaragan, there is the station of the renovated museum railways, where “Šargan’s Eight” starts its journey. Kremna today consists of about 800 households with over 2500 inhabitants. In the village, there is a motel ŠARGAN with capacity of 25 beds, nine taverns, several shops, a primary school, the church, Culture Center with the library and the cinema, the ambulance, places for recreation such as football, basketball, volleyball and handball are. More than 50 households are ready and willing to offer hospitality to their guests who are in need for relaxation and recreation.

Mokra Gora is the most attractive tourist - museum railroad in Europe and is mentioned as unique construction masterpiece in the world, among narrow - gauge lines. It used to connect Belgrade with Sarajevo and Dubrovnik, and it was put into operation on 2 February 1925. The problem of 300 m difference in altitude between Mokra Gora and Sargan and the 3.5 km distance was solved in a unique, and only possible way - with an unusual railway line loop in the form of number 8. This exceptional line is 13.5 km long, 22 tunels have been constructed along the line (the longest one below Sargan bearing the name of Alexander the First ), 5 bridges (the longest 44.30 m long on the River Kamesina) and viaducts.
The railway line closed in 1974.

ZTP Belgrade has stared with the restoration of this railway in the year 1999 and made it for tourist purposes. Thanks to the very strenuous engagement of the people of ZTP, this part of our history has been stolen from the forgetting it. The words of the famous prophet, so-called Serbian Nostradam, Mitar Tarabic, said at the end of XIX century: "Many years will pass before the people will recall again of the steal road, so they shouldst again make this road. Only with its road to Visegrad the people will not travel for the job or their need, but people will travel for fun, relaxation and enjoyment."

A special contribution to the promotion of Mokra Gora was made by our famous film director Emir Kusturica who shot his film " Life is a Miracle " there. Having built an ethno - village on the hill of Mecavnik, Emir became a resident of Mokra Gora.

Reviving the ancient houses of the region, the architect and creator of a perfect life that is out of the ordinary, Emir Kusturica, has built a town. Mecavnik is a universe on its own, which at first glance you will perceive as orchestrated and cuddled upon a terrain centuries old with each house being set by a hand of an old craftsman, settling into its ideal place as each year passes by. Thus, a Town that offers you features for an unforgettable holiday, bussines trip or a day break is a haven you will always be coming back to. The streets of Mecavnik are exciting to walk through at any period of the year as each season avails different pleasures and separate view of previous memory. The streets bare the names os distinctive artists, sportsmen and other great individuals who, through their ideas or accomplishments, have left or are still leaving a mark oin the history our humankind.

As does any other town, so does Kustendorf have central square and in it a St. Sava Church, the Mesa Selimovic Library, and The Stanley Cubric Movie Theater with the most advanced and latest picture and sound quality in the world. Just across the square id the Macola Gallery which hosts most renowned local and foreign artists, and right next door there is the national restaurant Lotika standing opposite a coffe and cake bar Kod Corkana ( at Corkan’s), not forgetting the colorful and irreplaceable Souvenir Shop Aska. Not far away, at the Diego Armando Maradona Square, you will find a sports center The Damned Alley which on it’s ground has an Inn, an Italian Restaurant, a gym, indoor pool, indoor basketball and volleyball court, saunas, billiard room and a night club. Encompassed in the various offers are a trim path, and some 7 km from the city is the skiing center. The necessities which today’s life instructs, such as wireless internet, do however exist at Kustendorf. What you cannot find at Mecavnik are two exactly the same rooms, as each has a uniquely painted and decorated furniture and interior, an inimitable view through the window, and a unique way to reach the room, apartment or detached house of your choice. In all of them though, there is one single standard – a safe, relaxing and peaceful dream in a comfortable and cozy bed.

The potpec cave is situated in the Potpec village 14 m away from Uzice, in the northern valley of Dreznicka Gradina (932 m altitude). The entrance to the Potpec Cave is a monumental work of nature. The giant portal in the form of a horseshoe, 50 m high (from the bed of the flow to the confluence), 12 m wide at the bottom, and 22 m at the top, is the highest cave entrance in Serbia. It is carved into a lime cliff, whose vertical part is 72 m high. The explored and arranged length for visitors is 555 m. The falling path at the entrance has over 700 steps.
Geological content > According to J. Cvijic (1914.), the Potpec cave was built in the middle Triassic limestones, "which lie on the verfenic slates... Detailed geological research and entering on a map of this area were done by B. Markovic (in 1957. and 1968).
The Triassic limestone, of which the cave was built, is whitish, with porosity as of cracks and fine mosaic structure.

Speleological characteristics > In the Potpec cave two main floors of the cave channels can be distinguished: the older one - the Upper cave and the younger one- the Lower cave. The entrance channel is common for the both horizons, since it originated by destruction of the mezzanine construction and their merging. The riches of the cave ornaments is regarded as very rare among karst caves... In the morph-speleological sense, twelve units should be observed in the Potpece cave.

Hydrological characteristics > According to the morph-hydrographic evolution, three groups of channels are distinguished in the Potpece cave: the fossil (the Upper cave), the active periodic flow (the longer part of the Lower Cave) and the constantly active (the newest subterranean flow ).

Climatic characteristics > The average annual temperature of the air is 9.5 C

The potpece cave and the man > It is estimated that the cave used to be man 's habitat even during the Neolith. Plenty of ceramics, deer horns and stone tools. In any case its inhabitants knew how to make the best of its favourable natural characteristics.

The international colony of art ceramics Zlakusa - Užice is an autor’s project of Sofija Bunardžić, a painter and craftsman in ceramics from the town of Užice. What makes this project special is the fact that craftsmen have the possibility to do research with still not enough studied processing, a technique called “Zlakusa” or “Sofija –Zlakusa”. The specifics of this colony could be observed through the construction of fine links between, on the one hand, traditional pottery which is unique after its material and applied working methods and baking of ceramics at the open fire. On the other hand, this includes modern trends in art ceramics. In the same way, as once it was manufactured (from prehistoric until the present), modern artists produce works in this colony (potter”s wheel).
International fine art colony of ceramics “Zlakusa” Užice is held every year during the period of  15th to 25th August.
The artists participate if invited by the organization or as the artist exchange from other comprehensive arts gatherings with which Association “Zlakusa Pottery” Užice makes this kind of cooperation. There is also possibility that artist themselves pay the participation fee. Lodging, food and work are carried out in the households of Zlakusa village, which are still practicing this kid of craft, or in the city of Užice.
The success and the well known title of Zlakusa  acknowledges “Zlakusa Pottery“ as a valuable contribution to modern pottery, as well as a cultural step forward for us. Genuine, as it is based in our national heritage, marks its authenticity, its need that crafts should be preserved through times, but also that they should be enriched by new visions of the people who are gifted to notice beauty and value.

Ethno park "Terzica avlija" ("Terzic's yard")is situated not far from the centre of the village Zlakusa, on a small hill, under the very beech-tree forest. "Terzica avlija" represents former typical country yard which consists of the two old serbian houses (one of them is 100 years old and built of sun-dried brick, with a roof on four slopes, covered with old tile of pepper colour).One of them served for everyday family life and the other was used as guests' house and a house for receiving and serving guests for family patron's day and similar occasions. At the breakout and during the Second World War there used to be one of the first country schools. The other house is 100 yeras old and adapted for the needs of country tourism into three-room suite with the elements of ethno style. The house in which there used to be a school is expected to be a museum. It consists of the two chambers- one is set as ethno room and represents a part of permanent exhibition,and the other with showcases is planned for various thematic exhibitions.There are a few more economic objects in the yard (dairy, shed, farm...a few newly built summer-cottages,a little summer stage and one log-cabin in which you can buy souveniers)and a 12 metres deep water well with cold water...

Jelova Gora belongs to the group of Maljen-Povlen Mountains in Dinaric Mountains. It is situated to the northeast of the town on its 9th kilometer. It is afforested plateau with thick woods, of total surface of about 20 km2, at the average altitude of about 850 m, with dominating mountain tops: Djakov Kamen (1003 m), Presedo, Ozkoliste and Zboriste. It is rich in waters, with plenty of spring waters (Jovanova Voda, Batina Voda, Izvorak, Studenac, Samadzinac, recently better known as Desankina cesma). The biggest river passing through it is Tatalija, it joins Tmus and mouthes in Skrapez. The woods are mainly beech wood, hornbeam, birch and aspen, and the least of oak woods. In recent times there are more areas covered by pine, fir, common spruce and mountain cypress.This mountain beauty is famous for bilberries. The chemical content of the soil is suitable for this kind of berries. The people living there are doing their best to preserve the nature.
The canter of tourist and catering industry is situated on the plateau, under Zboriste (the motel, the resort of The Ministry of Internal Affairs and numerous  cottages). Jelova Gora is mountain zone, rich with various games of pray. Roe deer is most common, but there is also fox, rabbit, marten, badger  and a large variety of forest birds. Jelova Gora is not yet well known tourist resort although  there is no doubt in its beauty. Harmonious incorporated fields with pitoresque plateaus and forests, the beauty of untouched nature and clean mountain air make this site very attractive.
Hiding its absorbings scents deep in its heart, Jelova Gora gives its visitors the spirit of untouched nature.

The worthy God Tar chose this beauty among the mountains  to spend his godly life on it. It generously accepted him and endowed him with its supreme beauty. As a  token of gratitude Tar left it his godly name and made it special, the goddess among the mountains.

At the beginning of the last century Milovan Glisic searched for a cure for his sick lungs on Tara.
The famous narrator stayed at the monastery mansions, not far from the site where the hotel "Omorika" is situated nowadays. Thus, precisely a century ago, on the land of the monastery of Raca, tourism was born on Tara. That was a mountain house with 60 beds at the place called Kaludjerske Bare.

Mountain Tara is embraced by the river Drina in its big curve  from Visegrad to Bajina Basta,  breaking through the serpentine and lime rocks of the mountains and separating by its flow the Bosnian hills from Serbia.
The massif of Tara  is located in the western part of Serbia, bordered by the river and the canyon of the Drina to the north-east, and by its south-eastern part and its branches it descends to the plateau of Kremna .

"That year when St. Georges day comes on Good Friday, the Drina will flow down the Tara"
 As he spoke, thus it happened. At the beginning of the eighties of the previous century, in the very bosom of the Tara, in the village of Zaovine, the first reversible hydroelectric power plant in Europe was built. The accumulation of The White Rzav is not only the vision of the prophets of Kremna but the real architectural miracle as well. Over the years this human creation merged into the magnificent surroundings. The Drina canyon is the third largest in the world, third only to the Grand canyon of the Colorado and the canyon of the river Tara. They are larger but not more beautiful.
Rafting fans called it the Serbian Niagara because of its numerous stone  bisections-cataracts which make splendid waterfalls .

Few are the places in our country which have been preserved from the fierce attacks of the so called nature lovers. Fortunately , this goddess among the mountains has been preserved, in 1981. it was proclaimed the National park and has been protected by the state.The great geomorphologic and geologic diversity, with specific hydrological characteristics of natural and anthropogenic origin, have brought about the riches of the flora and a great number of endemic and relic species of plants. Above all, that is  the Pancic spruce which has Tara as its only habitat. Searching unsuccessfully for 20 years for a conifer that was explained by the local people to be nothing of the sort of fir, pine or spruce and that it existed somewhere in the Uzice district, the great scientist Josif Pancic found himself in the village of Zaovine on the mountain of Tara in August 1875. Then Pancic and the spruce named each other. This tertiary endemic relict bears his name.

On one of the most splendid parts of Tara, the place called Kaludjerske Bare, the Military institution "Tara" comprising the hotels "Omorika", "Beli Bor", the pavillion "Javor " and the National house "Jeremicak". The hotel "Omorika " was built in 1977. and it has 420 beds, a swimming pool, sauna, trim cabinet, halls for table tennis and billiards, a disco club and courts for different sports. It is suitable for summer, winter and congress tourism, as well as for the preparations of the sportsmen.


The mountain of Tara has exceptional climatic conditions. Mild continental and mountain climate of Tara is such as to have a positive effect on the curing of asthma, bronchitis and anemia. Mountain air incites the strengthening of the immune system of the body. Climatic characteristics of Tara match the type of the air spa.

Although the man has been present on Tara for centuries, the nature has been fully preserved here. The harmony of economics and ecology is the most important prerequisite of the development, both of the nature and the cultural- historic values and the villages within the National park Tara .

The miraculous beauty that captures the chance visitor and to which he returns again, each time enraptured and infatuated at first sight, is as an encouragement to him. One does not come on Tara to stay for an hour or two or for a day or two. The one who at least once steps onto it remains its lifelong admirer and always returns to it.

Among other monuments around Uzice, one in particular is worth seeing - Memorial on Kadinjaca (14 km towards west from Uzice). The memorial is dedicated to the troops of Workers Battalion from Uzice, the Posavec and the Orasans, who scarified their lives on 29th November 1941. by protecting the retreat of the main partisan troops from Užice towards Sandžak.
As a memory on their resistance in 1952 the memorial was unveiled - the pyramid under which is the crypt where the remains of the majority of fallen soldiers who lost their lives on Kadinjaca were placed.
In 1979 a new memorial was unveiled, when the Workers' battalion was given the medal of Order of The National Hero. The authentic situation of the battle on Kadinjaca, the idea of the memorial monument and the building of the Memorial Home were given by the sculptor Miodrag Zivkovic and the architect Aleksandar Djokic from Belgrade.
Within this memorial, at about 15 acres, there is a memorial home where visitors can get information on the monument and the battle on Kadinjaca. There is a permanent exhibition taking place in memorial home "Workers' Battalion and the Battle on Kadinjaca" at the area of about 150 m2 with more than 300 exhibited items.
In one of the rooms for exhibitions there is an exhibition "Uzice Region in NATO Aggression Against Yugoslavia".

It is situated in the village of Karan, 16 km away from Uzice.
The church is dedicated to the Annunciation of the Mother of God. Archeological  explorations have confirmed that at the site where the church stands there used to be a settlement in Roman times. Next to the church itself several well preserved Roman grave markers (stelas) have been found. It was erected between 1332. and 1337. as a family  tomb of prefect  Petar, also known as Brajan.
According to its architecture the White church in Karan belongs to the type of the monuments of the Raska school. Apart from the two main cycles "Big holidays " and "The Life of the Mother of God", numerous other portraits are presented on the frescoes of the church: those of patron Brajan with his family, of tsar Dusan, tsarina Jelena and of other history characters. The frescoes continue the tradition of the art from the early 14th century. The original gold iconostasis with fresco-icons has been kept in the church .