Curiosities

-The word 'vampire' is the only Serbian word that is accepted worldwide and is used all over the world

-On the territory of today's Serbia, 18 Roman emperors were born, which is one-fifth of all Roman rulers

-In recent years, Serbia has been the largest exporter of raspberries in the world

-The Church of Saint Sava is the largest Serbian Orthodox church and the largest Orthodox church in the Balkans

-Đavolja Varoš (Devil's Town) has a total of 202 earthen figures of various shapes and dimensions, 2 to 15 m high, with stone caps on top

-The most famous Serbs in the world are: Nikola Tesla, Milutin Milanković, Mihajlo Pupin, Ivo Andrić, Novak Đoković, Vlade Divac

-It is known that 13 Serbs actively worked on the 'Apollo' program of the American space agency NASA

-Vranjska Banja is a spa with the warmest mineral water in Europe. The water has a temperature of 94 ° to as much as 110 ° C

-The first place for the largest continental sandstone in Europe belongs to Deliblatska peščara (Deliblato sandstone)

-Belgrade is built on 32 hills

-Miroslav's Gospel, one of the most significant features of Serbian culture and literacy, was written in the 12th century, and represents the oldest preserved Serbian manuscript

-Flutes and fiddles are considered Serbian national instruments

-The winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature is the famous writer Ivo Andrić

-Đerdapska klisura is the biggest gorge in Europe

-The largest colony of Griffon vultures in the Balkans is located in the canyon of the river Uvac (around 500 birds)

State and religious holidays:

• 1 i 2. January- New Year

• 7. January- Christmas

• 15. i 16.  February - Sretenje - Statehood Day

• 2.,3.,4. i 5. april- Easter holidays (for members of Catholic and other Christian faiths, except Orthodox)

• 30. april i 1.,2. i 3. May- Easter holidays

• 1.,2. i 4. May- Labor Day

• 20. July- Eid al-Adha Day (for members of the Islamic community)

• 16. September - First Day of Yom Kippur (for members of the Jewish community)

• 21. October - Day of Remembrance for Serbian Victims in the Second World War (celebrated on Labor Day)

• 11. November- Armistice Day in the First World War

• 25. December- First day of Christmas (for Catholics and members of other Christian religious communities)