Arandjelovac

Arandjelovac presents a particularity perhaps unique in Europe: the spa of Bukovicka is wedged in a park itself in the heart of a town of 50,000 population. You can say that one breathes a fresh air and walking through the heart of the ton in agreeable. Since Prince Milos Obrenovic has discovered and exploited its mineral water the town has been developing with the spa. This effervescent water has been served in all good establishments in Serbia. It is the famous calcareous and radioactive “Knjaz Milos from Arandjelovac”. It is comparable to the mineral water of Vichy. In the park of 14 hectares there are two hotels and the medical centre, but also the sources of the mineral water and an open swimming pool. The park has been traversed by the tree-lined paths below the trees. It constitutes the greatest sculpture museum under the blue sky in Europe. In summer time many concerts, the theatre plays and the folklore dances have been performed under the blue sky. The culture had not been missed with the complex around the villa Karadzic, the museum of the town and of the church. St. Gabriel; from here the walks toward the hills in the environment have been beginning to take a view of this town full of trees. The last particularity of the park is the presence of a cave at the entrance to the town.

THERMAL CURE, Phone: (034) 725 250. The specialized centre in the treatment of diabetes, the intestine diseases and rheumatism. Treatments based on the mineral water and the mud. Utilisation of the sports programs. The price of a 30 minutes sauna is 300 dinars, 5 mud cataplasms 350 dinars, accompanied training on the ergo bicycle 200 dinars.

CAVE RISOVACA. Open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Entrance 40 dinars. It is open to the visitors on a length of 150 meters. This cave is significant for the archaeological and paleontological discoveries. The best preserved proofs of the Palaeolithic culture have been found here: fossils, the arrow points, tombstones. These discoveries have been kept in the Paleonthological Museum (open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day).

THE MEMORIAL PARK OF ORASAC, Phone: 064 27 27 833. Open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. except Monday and from 9 .a.m. to 1 p.m. on the week end. Entrance 30 dinars. Six kilometres North away from Arandjelovac there is a remembrance park of the First Serbian insurrection. In fact on this soil Petar Karadjordjevic has united his troops to rise against Turks 1804. Two hundred years later this is the symbol of the creation of modern Serbian state and of its continuity in spite of changes in the XX century. In the place called “Maricevica Jaruga” in 1954 three marble plates have been posted on which one may read: “In this place on February 15th 1804 the first Serbian insurrection began”. A school has also been erected thirty years ago King peter I o Serbia came herein 1912, on the demand of peasants made construct this education place instead of a monument of the dead. Future had given his the right indeed.

One hour and a half on the road from Belgrade there would be a good idea of a trip of one day or more. Buses start from the capital very hour (150 dinars one way).

TOURIST OFFICE O ARANDJELOVAC, Knjaza Milosa 243, Phone: (034) 725 575. E-mail: office@bukovickabanja.com. Site: www.bukovickabanja.com. Very dynamic, a lot of information about the interesting points in the villages in environment, especially in the massif of Rudnik. Excursions organized with two interesting directions: the monasteries of Rudnik and the memorial places of the Serbian history of XIX century.