What can you do in Syrmia for one-day trip?

10.Mar.2017
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Srem or Syrmia

I’ve passed through the Syrmia lots of times, but without a stopover. It wasn’t on my tourist map even when I went on a one day trip. That is probably because I didn’t know much about that destination. However, now I am in a better position and I recommend you this trip if your main tourist destination is Serbia.

Furthermore, this is one of the trips on budget, even below the budget 🙂 . The highest cost is traveling by car or by bus from Belgrade or some other place in Serbia to Syrmia.

Syrmia sits between Western Serbia and Pannonian Basin. For those who don’t know, the administrative center of Syrmia is Sremska Mitrovica. The name “Syrmia” came from the ancient city of Sirmium (now Sremska Mitrovica).

One day trip do Syrmia

Municipalities or community  Pecinci and Serbian Museum of Bread

First of all, the municipality is located in the Syrmia district. It is only 24 km from the center of Belgrade, and 15 km from airport Nikola Tesla driving via highway. Just for a day trip.

Pecinci has a lot to show and I did not even know that some of the locations belong to that municipality.

For one day trip don’t miss this

Serbian Bread Museum

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Entrance to the museum

It was founded in 1995 by a painter Slobodan Jeremic – Grandfather Jeremia. The museum was a result of years of collecting and research done by the painter Jeremia, who has visited more than 750 Serbian villages during the last 30 years. The Museum is also his family house. The main concept of the museum display aims to show the journey of the wheat grain from the “soil, over bread to the heaven” thus corresponding to the Jeremia’s painting cycles of “Soil”, “Bread” and “Heaven”.

The entire museum is dedicated to Saint Nicholas.

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Painter’s private rooms

Painter is also involved in the museum constructing and the whole museum represents a work of authorship.

Soil– presented through the machine tools which are used for processing

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Old wagon
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Old Hayfork

Bread – the tool for bread preparation, getting and processing the flour

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Processed grain and obtained flour
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Exhibition area of Bread Museum
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Old milk container
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Old fashioned household tools
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Baked Bread
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The bread which is made for “Slava”, Serbian Orthodox Christian tradition of glorification of one of the family’s patron saint.

Heaven – a touch of heaven, presented in the “chapel” built and painted by Jeremiah

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Chapel within a family house painted by Jeremiah
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Painted walls at the chapel entrance

Entrance to the museum is charged for about 1,5 Euros per person, not a sum of money that is supposed to prevent you from discovering what other exhibits can be seen there.

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Painter Jeremiah, his wife and myself

Ethno houses

For those who wish to stay a little bit longer, my suggestion is to visit traditional Serbian ethno houses. They are situated in the same municipality. Those ethno houses are one of the older ones in Serbia.

Ethno houses in Karlovčić, Kupinovo, and Ogar.

And, of course,  Obedska pond, just 40 km from Belgrade.

The municipality of Sid

What is the thing that typically ties you for the city of Sid?

For me, that is going to West Europe and crossing the state border.

How many times have I passed through Sid, while traveling to West, and I have never stayed longer than I needed to, in order to cross the state border.

Sid is located on the slopes of Fruska Gora, just a few kilometers from the highway Belgrade-Zagreb.

Serbian Orthodox Church

In the city center, Serbian Orthodox Church St. Nicholas is a must see. The first documents which testify the existence of this church date back to 1774. Interior of the church is made in beautiful Baroque style.

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One day trip to Syrmia -Church of St. Nicholas of Sid

Church St. Nicholas

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Outhouses St. Nicholas Church

Behind the church, there is an old primary school.

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Old Primary School
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Baroque Church Interior

Galleries

Sid is the birthplace of many Serbian artists.

Grozdana Olujic– writer

and the famous one is a painter

Savo Sumanovic

Near the Orthodox church of St. Nicholas on the right, only a hundred meters away, there is a Gallery Sava Sumanovic, which you definitely should visit (link is in Serbian Cyrillic but you can see all the beautiful pictures of this famous Serbian painter).

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Gallery Sava Sumanovic
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Entrance to Gallery Sumanovic

The gallery was founded in 1852 on the basis of the deed of gift between Sava’s mother, named Persida Sumanovic and the city of Sid.

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Part of the collection “Bathers”

Galerie contains Sava’s 417 works, from oil paintings to sketches made in different techniques of painting.

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Sava Sumanovic Gallery in Sid – Other images
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Pictures: Linden Alley from 1941 and The Church of Sid

Near the gallery, in the street that today has his name, there is also a memorial house of Sava Sumanovic.

Naive Art

Sid is a real art city, so if you like the naive art, next to the gallery Sava Sumanovic, there is an exhibit space of the images in the category of naive art.

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Naive Art Exhibition

Priva’s Head

Village Privina Glava is also in the same municipality, (translated in English it’s Priva’s head). There is a beautiful monastery in that village, with the same name, from the XII century.

Monastery Priva’s Head

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The monastery complex Priva’s Head consists of three churches

Today in the monastery complex, there are three churches: Virgin Shroud, which was built in 2004, St. George was built in 2006 and The raising the Holy Cross was built in 2010 on the hill above the monastery.

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Monastery from the XII century
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Belfry

Abbot of the monastery Priva’s Head is Father Gavrilo Maric, who is very popular among the people because he is partially responsible for the construction of the other churches within the monastery.

Additional recommendation

If you decide to spend a day longer at this location, my recommendation is to visit the Memorial of Syrmia Front and a source of thermal water at just 5 km from Sid. If you are a potential investor interested in the thermal springs, this is unexploited.

In addition to the attractions all along, you’ll pass through untouched nature and breathe fresh, clean, mountain air.

Again very close, but on the other side, there is the village of Morovic and a hunting area with the same name.

Tito’s paths

Hunting area Morovic is in northwest Serbia, 100 km from Belgrade and only 5 km from the border with Croatia, Batrovci. It’s located in a beautiful oak forest that is intersected by three rivers- Sava, Bosut and Studva.

If you leave the car in the village, you can reach the beautiful hunting area by a light walk of around 5-6km.

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Road to hunting area Morovic
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Pedestrian path through the hunting area
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Easy walk through the hunting area

The hunting area belongs to the military institution Morovic, in which there are 2 villas and 5 bungalows for lodging.

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Tito’s complex

It is even more famous for the villa Roe Deer, built by the former President Tito. The whole village is linked to Josip Broz Tito. The whole ambiance of the villa is decorated with valuable hunting trophies from the rich hunting area Morovic.

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Villa Roe Deer

Within the complex, there is a circular path through the woods for a walk.

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Circular path for a walk through the wood

Gazebo

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Gazebo for a break

If you became hungry after all this walking through the beautiful nature there is a traditional restaurant Kosuta (Hind).

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Restaurant Hind, complex Morovic
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Hind Restaurant

Inside the Hind restaurant.

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Interior of the restaurant

Coffee in the restaurant was excellent and double espresso without milk was only 0.4 euros 🙂 . Prices are more than affordable.

Where and what can you eat?

As I have already mentioned the food (yummy) I should now say something about where and what to eat. Cafes and restaurants are certainly not lacking.

If you want to drink coffee and you are in Sid, right across the church, there is a very nice cafe in stone. However, if you change your mind, and decide for a quick snack and order pizza in the same place.

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Cafe and fast food restaurant

However, I’m more for the real food. As we spent the day near the hunting area and even been there,  I think that we should evaluate wildlife that hunters bring to the restaurants.

On the end, we didn’t eat at a hind restaurant, even though the food is also delicious there. We went back to the center of the village and had dinner at the restaurant M&T.

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Restaurant M&T

Finally, we decided to try some Venison stew with polenta and sauerkraut as a salad. It was…mmmm…yummy 🙂

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Venison Stew
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Venison Stew in combination with polenta

For dessert, we got a cookie (cake) Urmašice. So, who knows me, knows that I can eat them a lot, but ….. This one wasn’t to my taste, I even think it was a total failure, so do not order Urmašice.

Music and dance floor

Apart from food and drinks and the music, some have partied in this way:

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They are not leaving the restaurant, they are on the dancing floor, dancing Serbian traditional dance named “Kolo”

At the end, I am going to tell you about the total costs: a bus or a car (not rental) are approx 10 euros, lunch 5 euros, and both museum entrance fees are 2.5 euros.

Finally, no matter how much it costs, it isn’t too much if you want to see all this beauty and to have such an experience in this untouched nature of Syrmia (Srem).

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Village Morovic by night

It is more beautiful in nature 🙂      

Hi, I'm Suzana!

Rođena u Beogradu. Diplomirala na Mašinskom Fakultetu Univerziteta u Beogradu (smer Vazduhoplovstvo). Majka, supruga, putujući kulinarski hedonista. Istraživač, sportista i organizator.

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