The ultimate cultural site of Serbia

Fruska Gora is proclaimed a National Park in 1960 in order to provide its permanent protection and to improve its natural resources and beauty. The area of active protection is 25.525 square kilometers.

Fruska Gora is an isolated, narrow, island mountain in Pannonia plain. It is intended by river courses extending to the south and north, with some side ranges with steep slopes, spreading from the main narrow range. Its location, specific geological history and different microclimatic conditions make it very interesting and important to science. Thanks to unique and very rich deposits of fossil fauna and flora, Fruska Gora is called the ‘mirror of geological past’.

The main characteristic of this region is the existence of numerous protected, rare and endangered species.

Fruska Gora’s valleys are covered with pastures and fertile fields, numerous vineyards and orchards which decorate its lower slopes while higher ground, above 300 meters, is covered with dense deciduous forests.

Fruska Gora hides 16 orthodox monasteries famous for their specific architecture, treasuries, libraries and frescoes and numerous archeological sites from prehistoric and historic times as well.

Due to its outstanding natural resources, wonderful landscapes, exceptional charm and beauty, that will bring you closer to nature, Fruska Gora is ideal place for rest and recreation.

Park visitors will find many of historical and cultural monuments hidden in the forests and elsewhere. Whole this area was exposed to numerous conquerors so that there are only a few of the earliest monuments within the Park dating back to Old Ages, such as Acumincum fortress near Stari Slankamen or Malata Bononia at Cerevic.

However, quite a number of medieval monuments are well preserved. These include remains of ancient fortress near Slankamen, remains of Vrdnik tower, famous Petrovaradin Fortress, The Peace Chapel in Sremski Karlovci and others.

Several monasteries scattered all over Fruska Gora are of special interest. They were destroyed on numerous occasions, rebuilt, destroyed again and finally restored in the late sixties. In the Second World War they suffered heavy damages and plunders, their art treasuries were burnt up, frescoes and paintings destroyed. Thus only ruins remain of once lovely monasteries
of Besanovac, Kuvezdin and Sisatovac.

Monasteries of Rakovac, Djipsa, Grgeteg, Jazak, Hopovo and Velika Remeta suffered heavy damages also. Some of them have been completely or partially restored, although their frescoes and treasuries were not saved from destruction. Such in case with Krusedol, Vrdnik, Mala Remeta,
Petkovica and Pribina Glava monasteries.
Recent history also left numerous traces here. During the Second World War when almost all of Europe was under German occupation, Fruska Gora boasted of being never completely under the German command. Some parts
of it always remained as a liberated territory. Each village keeps memories of those days, while at Iriski venac big monument was erected to the Partizans
of Srem, the work of sculptor Sreten Stojanovic.

nformation center is located at the Iriski venac, one of the most beautiful and top-interest areas in the National Park, near the WWII monument. The center is the base of all cultural, scientific & tourism events in the Park.

Experienced and highly trained guides will lecture, outdoor and in the building, about natural values of the National Park. Its protected natural values will be presented to visitors through video and slide shows.

A Museum with permanent Fruska Gora’s natural values exhibition is a part of Information Center as well. It’s the best representations of Fruska Gora’s natural and cultural values.

The congress room of the Center is an ideal place for meetings, courses or educational theme exhibitions on development and protection of nature.

As a part of activities of the schools in nature, Information Center will organize special courses, presentations, shows and other performances for children.

In the gift shop tourists can buy postcards, posters, maps, prospects, books, movies and other items related to National Park and its preservation.