The Alpine village of VALJEVSKA KAMENICA
On the road to Loznica, at 17 km of Valjevo, this charming village coiled in the old mountains of Vlasic is attractive in several ways. Nature is accessible, with brooks which run out along small gullies, but also its plum trees and he typical raspberry canes of Serbia. You will be able to take a long walks between valleys and hills. Hunting for wild boar, pheasant and the roe-deer are organized by the "Association of the Milovanovic hunters" , tel: +381 (0)14 254 504.
The local products are to be tasted on the spot, but the characteristic here consists in taking part in the clothes industry or in artisanal works, which you can take home! This is why each 12 July the Festival of Saint-Pierre takes place, when the habits of the village are perpetrated, around the traditional dance of kolo! lLess than one kilometer from the village, you can go to a pleasant lake in the summer.
More in the south, close to Donji Taor, are situated the Taorska vrela, where several brooks meet to form the Skrape river and where you can see twelve very beautiful water mills. The country-women still come to wash woolvthere!
The memorial village of BRANKOVINA
At 11 kilometres away from Valjevo an outstanding tourist and cultural place in the country. Take the road to Sabac and just after the village of Brankovina mind, by descending, a plate indicating a cylinder to the left “Tourist Complex Brankovina”. Keep going on and you will arrive quickly in the historic village recognisable by its wooden fences which surround it completely. The entrance is 50 dinars.
In an idyllic framework this village appeared in XV century, and in XIX century it became the cradle of the family of Nenadovic. Knez Aleksa, vojvoda Jakov and the archpriest Mateja, and additionally Sima and Ljuba. Otherwise the school of Brankovina had greeted in its benches the poetess Desanka Maksimovic. All this makes the Serbs to visit the village very often.
If you begin your visit on the left you will discover the Saints Archangels Church Michael and Gabriel constructed in 1830 to take places of many little churches made of wood burnt by Turks. The interior is enough sober, but contains two treasuries: the manuscripts of Hadzi Ruvim as well as the Ancient and the New Testaments being brought from Russia by the archpriest Mateja. By coming out of the church go to the left to see the tombs of Knez Nenadovic and Desanka Maksimovic. On the right from the main entrance there is first the museum where the books, photos and several texts by Desanka Maksimovic. Here the Serbian poetess used to study because the school had been constructed in 1895. Then you enter the ancient primary school where the ancient school benches, the true schoolrooms of that age and the wall maps and the donkey hats are displayed. Built in 1834 by the archpriest Matej, it tends to give a picture of a typical school in Serbia. 1804. finally this square house of wood is a “vajat”. That is a traditional peasant house. Consisting of one piece only. Here the new married used to receive the dowry. One sees the waved things and a rustic bed. Beside, “vodenica” or a wheel for water.
Brankovina has been led to develop itself with an ethno village on its extreme right created by all parts with the houses brought from the nearby mountains.















