MIHAJLOVIC HOSTEL - KLICEVAC ROOMS

If you are planing on cycling cross Serbia, you can't miss the Danube cycling route through Serbia which has became one of the most beautiful parts of few official and unofficial cycling European routes.

Danube Cycle Route stretches through Serbia in the length of 667km. Danube Cycle Route in Serbia is a part of the EuroVelo 6 (Atlantic - Black Sea), which is recognized by the  European Cyclists Federation (ECF).

Hunting tourism is blooming in this part of Serbia since we preserved the hunting grounds over the decades and the natural environment stayed untouched. Klicevac is surrounded by many hunting grounds (Hrastovaca, Djerdap...), but few of them are offering some of the unique hunting experiences. Hunting at the hunting-ground HRASTOVACA (Hrastovacha) is one of those special experiences.

In oak forests, aged one hundred years or more, deer, roebucks, wild boars, bears, lynx, wolves, jackals, foxes, badgers, martens, hares and rock pigeons live in abundance. Hunting the wild boar, roe deer, wild duck and goose in a true hunting experience in an almost untouched natural environment of the hunting ground Hrastovaca that has the necessary skilled staff as well as hunting and technical facilities so that your hunting can be as successful as possible is something to remember.

Hunters can be accommodated in Mihajlovic Hostel, Klicevac as it is the closest accommodation and with high quality service.

Dinner Bed & Breakfast or Bed & Breakfast breaks are rarely better than at the MIHAJLOVIC HOSTEL. Our bedrooms are clean fresh and comfortable and offer our guests a perfect accommodation for a very reasonable price.

We offer two bedroom with 4 beds in a separate building and 2 bedroom with 2 more beds within our family house.

TOURIST INFORMATION

POZAREVAC - VIMINACIUM - KLICEVAC - RAM - SILVER LAKE - GOLUBAC - DJERDAP - LEPENSKI VIR - DECEBALUS STATUE - DANUBE - TABULA TRAIANA

Klicevac is one of the oldest settlements of the region. The famous figure of "Klicevacki idol" or the Idol of Klicavac was found on the teritory of todays Klicevac town. The figure, also known as The Big Mother is confirmed artifact from the Bronze Age. It was found in a grave at the archeological site of Klicevac. Sadly the original figure was destroyed during the World War I, but the reproductions were kept and now you can buy it as a souvenir representing the whole area of eastern Serbia.

Klicevac is situated on the right bank of the Europe's second longest river - river Danube. Just few miles upstream from the place where Danube becomes the widest and after that the narrowest (the Iron Gate) in it's whole 2850 km (1771 miles) long flow. Klicevac is an ideal place for a "base camp" of many tourists that travel through these lands by car, bicycle or even sailing (even amazing Jacques-Yves Cousteau couldn't resist the beauty of this region in his explorations while his crew of Calypso captured material for four films The Curtain Rises, Charlemagne's Dream, Cries of the River, Rivalries Overflow).

LEPENSKI VIR

Lepenski Vir (Лепенски Вир, Lepen Whirl) is an important Mesolithic archaeological site located in Serbia in the central Balkan peninsula. It consists of one large settlement with around ten satellite villages. The evidence suggests the first human presence in the locality around 7000 BC with the culture reaching its peak between 5300 BC and 4800 BC. Numerous piscine sculptures and peculiar architecture are testimony to a rich social and religious life led by the inhabitants and the high cultural level of these early Europeans.

Lepenski Vir is located on the banks of the Danube in eastern Serbia, within the Iron Gates gorge, near Donji Milanovac. The first excavations were made on the site in 1965. In 1966 it was listed as a cultural monument of Yugoslavia. It was only in 1967 that its importance was fully understood after the discovery of the first Mesolithic sculptures.

The excavations ended in 1971 when the whole site was relocated 29.7m higher to avoid flooding from a new artificial lake created in the Iron Gates gorge. The main contribution to exploration of this site was through the work of professor Dragoslav Srejović of the University of Belgrade. 136 buildings, settlements and altars were found in the initial excavations in 1965-1970.

Lepenski Vir was declared a Monument of Culture of Exceptional Importance in 1979, and it is protected by the Republic of Serbia.


VIMINACIUM

Viminacium (VIMINACIVM) was a major city (provincial capital) and military camp of the Roman  province of Moesia (today's Serbia), and the capital of Moesia Superior. The archeological site occupies a total of 450 hectares. The city dates back to the 1st century AD and contains archaeological remains of temples, streets, squares, amphitheatres, palaces, hippodromes and Roman baths.[1]  It lies on the Roman road Via Militaris.

It is located in Stari Kostolac  (Old Kostolac) a Serbian town on the Danube  river, east of Belgrade. Viminacium was a place where the first archaeological excavation in Serbia was made. It was in 1882, and it was started by Mihailo Valtrović, an architect by profession and first professor of archeology at the College in Belgrade, with the help of 12 prisoners because the state did not have enough resources to provide him with a better work force. His research has continued Miloje Vasić, rebuilt in the seventies of the last century and intensified in the last ten years, and that the area of the Roman city of the Roman legionary camps and cemeteries. Many studies suggest that the camp had Viminacium rectangular plan, measuring 442 x 385 meters, and that is not far from its western wall of civilian settlement in an area of approximately 72 acres.

Legionary camp in Viminacium is now in a layer of arable land, so that wealth Viminacium easily accessible to researchers, but, unfortunately, and the robbers.The National Museum in Belgrade  and Pozarevac kept some 40,000 items found in Viminacium, of which over 700 made of gold and silver. Among them are many objects that represent the European and world rarities invaluable.

It has been discovered and more than 13,500 graves. Tombstones and sarcophagi are often decorated with relief representations of scenes from mythology or daily life. We have found numerous grave masonry construction. Especially interesting are the frescoes of the 4th century tombs. Fresco with the notion of young women in artistic value of the extreme range of late antique art. During the excavation, an amphitheater, which with its 12,000 seats was one of the largest in the Balkans.

IRON GATES - DJERDAP GORGE

The Iron Gates (Serbo-Croatian: Ђердапска клисура, Đerdapska klisura, [d͡ʑě̞rdaːp] or [d͡ʑě̞rdaːpskaː klǐsura]; Romanian: Porţile de Fier pronounced [ˈport͡sile de ˈfjer]; Hungarian: Vaskapu; Slovak: Železné vráta; Turkish: Demirkapı; German: Eisernes Tor; Bulgarian: Железни врата, Zhelezni vrata) is a gorge on the Danube River. It forms part of the boundary between Romania and Serbia. In the broad sense it encompasses a route of 134 km (83 mi); in the narrow sense it only encompasses the last barrier on this route, just beyond the Romanian city of Orşova, that contains two hydroelectric dams, with two power stations, Iron Gate I Hydroelectric Power Station and Iron Gate II Hydroelectric Power Station.

The gorge lies between Romania in the north and Serbia in the south. At this point, the river separates the southern Carpathian Mountains from the northwestern foothills of the Balkan Mountains. The Romanian, Hungarian, Slovakian, Turkish, German and Bulgarian names literally mean "Iron Gates" and are used to name the entire range of gorges. An alternative Romanian name for the last part of the route is Clisura Dunării, "Danube Gorge". In Serbia, the gorge is known as Đerdap (Ђердап), with the last part named Đerdapska klisura (Ђердапска клисура). The Romanian side of the gorge constitutes the Iron Gates natural park, whereas the Serbian part constitutes the Đerdap national park.

The first narrowing of the Danube lies beyond the Romanian isle of Moldova Veche  and is known as the Golubac gorge. It is 14.5 km long and 230 m (755 ft) wide at the narrowest point. At its head, there is a medieval fort at Golubac, on the Serbian bank. Through the valley of Ljupovska lies the second gorge, Gospodin Vir, which is 15 km long and narrows to 220 m (722 ft). The cliffs scale to 500 m and are the most difficult to reach here from land. The broader Donji Milanovac forms the connection with the Great and Small Kazan gorge, which have a combined length of 19 km (12 mi). The Orşova valley is the last broad section before the river reaches the plains of Wallachia  at the last gorge, the Sip gorge.


TABULA TRAIANA

The Great Kazan (kazan meaning "boiler") is the most famous and the most narrow gorge of the route: the river here narrows to 150 m and reaches a depth of up to 53 m (174 ft). East of this site the Roman emperor Trajan had the legendary bridge erected by Apollodorus of Damascus. Construction of the bridge ran from 103 through 105, preceding Trajan's conquest of Dacia. On the right bank a Roman plaque commemorates him. On the Romanian bank, at the Small Kazan, the likeness of Trajan's Dacian opponent Decebalus was carved in rock from 1994 through 2004.