Serbia Description

Serbia - a country friendly, cordial people, who always met you as a good friend. Serbia - the crossroads of Europe, a crossroad between East and West, North and South. Favorable geographical position, natural resources and convenient means of communication have long been attracted to him. For thousands of years in the space of Serbia passed the resettlement of peoples, cultures were replaced, revived and collapsed states, and all this has left traces of their stay here. At the heart of Serbian tourism is a huge variety of landscapes, an abundance of historical and cultural monuments, health resorts, hunting and fishing grounds. Pass through the country air and rail routes from Western and Central Europe to Greece, Turkey, the Middle East, Asia and Africa. The historical past of Serbia is the crossroads of different civilizations - from the Byzantine to the Ottoman, which left in its architecture a unique trace. Here reigns the natural, historical, cultural and ethnic diversity.

Serbia is situated in Central Europe, the Balkans and the Pannonian plain. It shares borders with Albania, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Montenegro and Romania. Serbia has no outlet to the sea, but its location on the Danube river gives it a convenient way to Europe and the Black Sea. Importance for navigation is a river Tisza. In Serbia there are two autonomous provinces: Vojvodina and Kosovo. The capital of the state - the city of Belgrade. Other major cities: Novi Sad, Nis, Pristina and Subotica.

Geographically, Serbia is located in two regions - Central and South-eastern Europe. Its territory extends to the Pannonian plain and the Balkan Peninsula. North, Central part of the country, lie on the plain, while the South accounted for mountainous terrain. In most of a temperate continental climate, and only in the south it is close to the Mediterranean.