Avala

The hill of Avala is at the same time a memorial site and an impressive massive which dominates the town and controls the access to Sumadija. On 15 kilometres away from the town centre and in half an hour drive you could admire the most beautiful landscape of central Serbia and you will take a walk in a park of many hectares.

Tourist sites

THE MEMORIAL PARK OF JAJINCI - On this little hill today transformed into a place of taking walks Germans executed between 1941 and 1943 80,000 men, women and children for they refused to comply to the Nazi new social order. An impressive memorial monument, the remembrance of that tragedy in a park of 80 hectares arranged in 1960 by Branko Mirkovic.

THE HILL OF AVALA - Climbing this hill by car, observe one kilometre before the summit the monument of Russian generals killed in an air accident when they were coming to celebrate the20th anniversary of the liberation October 20th 1944. one should know that Belgrade had been liberated by the Red Army in October 1944 while the Tito’s partisans were fighting in the mountains of the South of Serbia.

When you have come near the summit gate behind the Avala hotel and climb the monumental stairs to arrive to the summit at 511 meters height. You will be in front of the famous tomb of the unknown soldier in honour of the death in the I World War. In 1934 the sculptor constructed this monumental house in black marble where once had been a Serbian fortress called Zrnov under a classical roof and between the Greek columns eight impressive caryatids each representing the mother of a soldier of different nationality, all forming Yugoslavia of that age.