There's many things to do and see when visiting Serbia. Thee are many major cities to spread your time around,
but make sure you spend enough time in the country's capital, Belgrade.
One of the best things to do in Serbia is to explore the vibrant city of Belgrade. This is a vigorous, high-energy city, especially in spring and summer, when all ages throng the streets at all hours.
With a seemingly endless supply of bars and clubs, the city’s pulsing nightlife is one of the unexpected high points on any European itinerary.
The city’s most attention-grabbing attraction is the Kalemegdan Fortress. Meanwhile just outside the park’s boundary is the Old City, whose dense lattice of streets conceals Belgrade’s most interesting sights.
Beyond here lie several more sights worth seeing, including the Church of St Sava, one of the world’s largest Orthodox churches, and the very worthwhile Nikola Tesla Museum.
Situated on the main road and rail routes towards Budapest some 75km northwest of Belgrade, Novi Sad has long charmed visitors with its comely buildings – remnants of Austro-Hungarian rule.
Today it’s an emphatically young town – especially in the summer when thousands of international revellers swarm to Petrovaradin Fortress for the four-day EXIT festival.
Novi Sad developed in tandem with the huge Petrovaradin Fortress (open access) on the Danube’s south bank. The fortress rises picturesquely from rolls of a green hillside, its delicate lemon-yellow buildings set inside sturdy fortifications.
For four days at the beginning of July, the grounds of Petrovaradin Fortress are overrun by EXIT Festival revellers.
Now established as one of the premier music events in Europe, EXIT attracts some of the very biggest names in pop, techno and hip-hop.
