Sirogojno - an alpine museum of Serbian ethnos

Belgrade, June, 03. 2010 (Serbia Today) – It represents a genuine architectural wonder that depicts life, culture and heritage of past generations. In 1980, it became a museum and ever since, it has been know as the Old village. Occupying an area of 5 ha, Sirogojno is located in south-western Serbia, on the slopes of the Zlatibor mountain and 20 kilometers away from the town of Uzice. The museum itself holds 47 wooden objects relocated from the surrounding villages and equipped with authentic furniture and tools. Each household has a dairy room, a barn, a bread-baking oven, wooden vessels for production of home-made brandy, a beekeeping chamber, a room for production of prunes, while stables for cattle were built outside the main area. The whole exhibition has over 2000 valuable pieces spread around the yards and under the roofs of this ethno village. A special feature of Sirogojno is a summer shepherd home. It is composed of two cottages and a small house on sleighs, which makes their “business” a lot easier during winter periods. This beautiful ground is also home to sacred spaces such churches of St. Peter and St. Paul (1821), and an old graveyard. In order to breathe life into this museum, various workshops are being organized. The workshops deal with manual production of wooden, metal and coal items. In accordance with the Orthodox Christian calendar, Christmas Eve, Christmas, Easter and other traditional holidays are celebrated. It is through revival of old customs that Sirogojno demonstrates the spiritual, Christian yet pagan, heritage of its people. Every year the village hosts many exhibitions and educational programs. Still, Sirogojno remains famous for its manually knitted sweaters and the “Sirogojno fashion”, is today very present in Paris, Rome, London and even Japan. Be it Museum days or Museum nights, the village celebrates all manifestations dedicated to museums, while summer time is reserved for the festival of eco and environmental film. Sirogojno is surrounded by dazzling alpine scenery, ideal for both, winter and summer vacations. Nearby, there is the village of Gostilje, the Stopica cave, the Vapa spa resort and the Zlatibor tourist center. Around 100.000 people visit Sirgojno annually.
 

Serbia climbed up on the 15th place FIFA ranking list

Belgrade, June, 01. 2010 (Serbia Today) – The Serbian national football team is ranked 15th on the updated FIFA ranking list, which was published on Wednesday. "The Eagles" have 947 points, ten less than the U.S. team, at 14th place and 48 more than the national team of Uruguay, which occupies the 16th position. When it comes to Serbian opponents at the World Championships, the best ranked is Germany, which is ranked sixth with 1082 points. Australia is ranked at 20 with 886 points, while Ghana is in 32nd place on the list with 800 points. Brazil is still in first place with 1611 points in front of Spain (1565), Portugal (1249) and Holland (1231). The best performance, from teams from the former Yugoslavia, has Croatia on the tenth position with 1041 points.

Serbia 13th in Eurovision contest

Belgrade, June, 01. 2010 (Serbia Today) – Serbia’s representative on Eurovision Song Contest 2010.  Milan Stankovic came in 13th place. Milan performed Goran Bregovic’s song "This is the Balkans", and accumulated 72 points. That was enough for 13th place from a total number of 25 participants in the final competition. The representative of Germany, Lena was the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2010, which was held at the Telenor Arena Oslo, Norway. It was a convincing 76 points ahead of second-placed Turkey, which was the group of "manga".

Enjoy the Zemun

Belgrade, May 31. 2010. (Serbia Today) - If you come to Belgrade you have to visit a very special part of the Serbian capital- Zemun. Situated on the bank of river Danube Zemun offers peaceful ambient. Rafts, fisherman taverns, restaurants are just some of attractions of Zemun  quay. This once independent settlement, whose name was derived from the word “zemlja” meaning “earth”, is conveniently positioned on the right bank of the river Danube, and on the very border with the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina. The story of Zemun starts in the “copper age”, and throughout history Zemun has been under Byzantine, Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian and finally Serbian rule. Since 1934, it has been regarded as an integral part of Belgrade. Nowadays, numerous historical monuments stand as proof of its attractive position, while this “town in the city” continues its development into a modern settlement. Indeed, Zemun has all the right reasons for showing-off and you will immediately fall in love with it.  It has numerous cultural and historical sites, such as the Millennium Tower, fantastic fishing areas, rafts, floating or non-floating restaurants. It is also home to the "Madlenijanum" theatre and opera house, famous cafés with even more famous gastronomic wonders, galleries, and finally, shops where long-forgotten, decorative or usable objects are being manufactured. If you visit Zemun don’t forget the museum in Spirta’s house (18th century), the solar clock house(1823), Jovo Karamat’s printerhouse  (19th century), Icko’s house (18th century), remains of a medieval fortress (11th century), The Millennium Tower on Gardos(1896), the Old Magistracy building (1832). The International festival of monodrama and pantomimes, The International festival of caricature, “Zilik“ painting colony, “Summer on the quay“, etc. Once home to an internationally famous European port Zemun has maintained the old tradition of hospitality; Zemun quay is an ideal place for a city escape or a side stop to all those cruising the Danube on their way to the Black sea. Also, Zemun can be proud of its almost untouched oasis, a local beach called Lido, situated on the Big war island.
 

Red Star win the cup in Chicago

 
Belgrade/ Chicago, May, 26. 2010 (Serbia Today) - Red Star won first place at the Twin Cities Tournament in Chicago after a dramatic victory over  FC Paris Saint-Germain. The match finished with a score of 1-1 and the winner was decided on penalties, which Red Star won 7-6. Red Star led 1-0 in the 73rd minute when the goal hit Kadu. Then French player Marcos Ceara equalized in the 91st minute of the match. Jean-Eudes Maurice was the only penalty taker to miss and Milan Jeremic scored the winning goal for Red Star. Successful penalties for Red Star were taken by Nemanja Nikolic, Branimir Subotic, Milos Trifunovic, Milan Vilotic, Vladimir Bogdanovic, Slavko Perovic and Milan Jeremic.
 

Dane Komljen awarded in Cannes

Belgrade, May, 26. 2010 (Serbia Today) – A short film of the young director and writer Dane Komljen, is one of the winners of the competition at the Cannes Film Festival, Cinefondation. Film "I'm already everything that I have," in production of Faculty of Drama Arts shares equal third place with the Lebanese-American film “Fifth column” of Vatce Bulgurjian. The first prize in the program Cinefondation, which is devoted to discovering new talents, was assigned to the Finnish film, “Sellers of picture ", while the French film “Anywhere in the world” won the second prize. Komljen’s film is a test movie on the third year in s class of director Slobodan Sijan. The story is about Daniel, and how he is dealing with what he is involved in, when he suddenly appears in front of his older sister who lives in Belgrade and pray to be at her place for several days. In the 34-minute film there are appearances by Ivan Djordjevic, Bojan Zeevic, Pedja Damnjanovic and Dragan Milosevic.

Lake Palic – Vojvodina’s beauty

 
Belgrade, 25. 2010 (Serbia Today) Lake Palic,  placed 8 kilometers from Subotica (town near Hungarian border)  and 180 kilometers from Belgrade. The complex has arranged walkways, a zoo, nice hotels and restaurants where visitors can taste traditional dishes from Vojvodina with a strong Hungarian influence. Visitors are also welcome to enjoy horse back riding, sailing, biking and coach rides through the old wood. The Palic lake offers other forms of entertainment, sports, and touring nature reserves, bird watching, walking tours and photo safari. The coast is very attractive because of its sand Reef, bicycle paths, and polygons for the learner. The lake is rich in fish, and this provides an opportunity for fishing enthusiasts in an active holiday. Center provides options for treatment and recovery. Lake mud is rich in important minerals with medicinal properties, and sources of mineral water with temperature of 25 ° C. The coast of the lake is about 17 km long and the whole of its length is regulated. During the summer Palic film festival will be held. The Manifestation offers you  the chance to meet Serbian film industry production.