Our Saturday afternoon tour in Serbia

Our afternoon activities consisted of visiting a sculptor’s studio where we got to taste some traditional foods, a visit to Lepenski Vir and a tour of the Golubac Fortress.

Some pictures from the studio.

Our snack was fried nettles, a pastry, cheese, tomato and cucumber,

Lepenski Vir is an ancient settlement on the banks of the Danube in eastern Serbia; more precisely, in Boljetin village, near Donji Milanovac. The site shows evidence of a culture which is more than 8000 years old and which included social interactions, religious practices, architecture, and art, with features and layers of both the Mesolithic and Neolithic period. Archaeologists have unearthed intriguing pieces of stone sculpture at the site, some portraying human-like figures and others which point to an appreciation of astronomical events.

Each house is in a shape of a pentagon. If you would complete the circle, the house would be exactly 1/6 the area of the whole circle. The floor is red because it is made from sand which has a high iron content mixed with water which hardens when dried.

A computer simulation of what a resident of the site would look like.

Speculation of what one of the houses might actually look like.

The Golubac Fortress was a medieval fortified town on the south side of the Danube River, 4 km downstream from the modern-day town of Golubac, Serbia. According to recent discoveries, the fortress, which was built during the 14th century is split into three compounds which were built in stages. It has ten towers which were not connected for easier defense.