Tara - beautiful mountain in Serbia

Mountain Tara, Serbia

Tara-The mistique and powefull name for the beautiful mountain

Tara (from 1000 to 1,500 metres a.s.l.) one of the most beautiful mountains in Serbia, clad in dense forests with numerous clearings and meadows, cliffs, ravines and caves...

Tara was declared a National Park in 1981. It is in the mountainous region of Western Serbia and it spreads on the Tara and Zvezda mountains, in a large bend of the river Drina.

The area of this national park is about 22,000 hectares and consists of a gruop of mountain peaks and areas with deep gorges, the most striking of which is the Drina Gorge.

The Drina Gorge, which is an an integral part of park, can be toured by boat. This is a special attraction and memorable experience.

Forests account for three quarters of this national park's area and some of them are best preserved and of highest quality in Europe. Tara also boasts a rare endemic Tertiary species, the Pancic spruce.

The park management office is in Bajina Basta. The Tara National Park can be reached from Bajina Basta directly (by the Bajina Basta - Kaludjerske Bare road), from Bajina Basta via Perucac (by the Perucac - Mitrovac road) and from Kremna (the Kremna - Kaludjerske Bare road).

There are now two basic tourist localities in the national park: Kaludjerske Bare and Mitrovac. Tara offers excellent conditions for relaxation and recreation throughout the year.

Upon the archaeological remainders we could acknowledge and assert the continuity of life on the mountain of Tara, from the period of neolit (the culture of Vinca) to the iron age.

It is also known that along the upper middle course of the river of Drina, on the mountain of Tara, lived the lliric tribe named Autariata, and from that period of time till noways are known the names of mountain and the river of Tara, the river of Drina, Cigota and others.

Tara-During the period of Byzantine power upon the Balkan peninsula, the territories of the mountain of Tara, the canyons of the rivers of Drina and Raca, represented the northeast defensive border, inaccessible and natural.

The Slavic tribes had come to that territory and had brought new customs as well as new way of living, organization of life, and, by founding of the first Serbian state in Raska, at the beginning of the 13 century, had become the brave defenders of the north frontiers.

In the second half of the 13 century, the king Dragutin has built in that territory, precisely said at the coast of the river of Raca, before entering in the canyon, the Monastery of Raca, for reasons of safety, but in the following centuries that had become the source of literacy for that territory.

The importance of the Monastery of Raca had grown by the conquering of Serbia by Turks because the people from monastery had continued their work on the literacy with their activity of copying and by their working in the branch of culture, forming the 'School of Raca'.

For reasons of wars, of course - defensive wars (Austro-Hungarian) later on, it was the rebellion against the Turks, the Monastery had been destroyed and burned twice, so the cultural property had been moved to the Monasteries of Fruska Gora, in that period of time (Hungary, and in noways so called Vojvodina).

In 1835, when the State of Serbia was liberated, the Monastery of Raca had been renovated completely, in the style of tile school of Ragka, with the iconostasis of Djordje Bakalovic. In the churchyard of the Monastery had been built the threes- toried tower with the turret, palaces (they usually are built as twostoried buildings with all following rooms), there is also the commemorative plaque on the grave of Hadzi Milentije, the Archimandrite of the Monastery.

His flag is conserved in the property of the Monastery, as one of rare remnant flags of Serbian, rebellions from that time.

The river of Drina is very rich with rapid water and waterfalls that are very convenient for faster development of witer sports (kayak driving, lowing by rafts that lasts 4 or 5 days with spending the niglits in tents), refining the lumber in the limber industry, developing of the sawmills, transporting of the oval building material.

The massif of the mountain of Tara is situated in the west part of the Serbia, bordered on river and canyon of Drina'on northwest side and by its southeast side, its branches are coming down towards the mountain of Zlatibor.

According to the favorable climate conditions, Tara is during the year, in summer and in winter months, very suitable for developing of tourism on various levels. In the summer period of the year there is a lot of sunny days, and in the winter period of the year there is a lot of snowy days, so, according to the constructed hotels (capacity of for about 2.500 beds) there is a possibility, with good humored population for the very pleasant sojourn.

Talking about the climate conditions it should be mentioned that here is present moderate continental climate with moderite wirm summers ind winters, and the transitional periods of the year meek and gridual, and the autumn is warmer than the spring.

Up to the mountain of Tara is the border between warrn airily circulation from the south and cold from the north, that influents the continental climate.

Measurements that are taken during the year from the meteorological station on Mitrovae (1082 m height above the sea level) are the average temperature during the years is 5 degree C and average rainfill 977,3 mm.

Considering the flora, the mountain of Tara has a very important advantage because of the reservations in its region. Protected by the present law, Pancic's spruces are the representatives of the endemic relicts which have existed since tercier to nowadays and still are in their full development.

The spruces had been discovered by the natturalist of the world's fame, dr losif Pancic, by whose name they has been called. The Pancic's Spruce became the center of the world's attention and Serbian pride and pride of the mountain of Tara and by that fact the world's attention is directed to this part of the country.

Considering the rest parts of the forest and their sorts, there are firs, juniper bush and beech with some particular sorts of conifers such as pine tree and also of the evergreen such as: maple, aspen and birch.

After spending a few weekends on the mountain of Tara, on his way back to home, a man could feel a emptiness, because he was accustomed very quick to the evenings walks, evenings parties with a lot of folk music, guitar in the Hostel, and the orchestra in the hotels, making a long, long friendship with local population.

Tara-The mistique and powefull name for the beautiful mountain

Tara-The mistique and powefull name for the beautiful mountain

Tara-The mistique and powefull name for the beautiful mountain

Tara-The mistique and powefull name for the beautiful mountain

Tara-The mistique and powefull name for the beautiful mountain

Tara-The mistique and powefull name for the beautiful mountain

Tara-The mistique and powefull name for the beautiful mountain

Zoran Cuvar lepota Tare i Lepota

Tara-The mistique and powefull name for the beautiful mountain

Tara-The mistique and powefull name for the beautiful mountain

Tara-The mistique and powefull name for the beautiful mountain

Tara-The mistique and powefull name for the beautiful mountain

Tara-The mistique and powefull name for the beautiful mountain

Tara-The mistique and powefull name for the beautiful mountain

Tara-The mistique and powefull name for the beautiful mountain

Tara-The mistique and powefull name for the beautiful mountain

Tara-The mistique and powefull name for the beautiful mountain

Tara-The mistique and powefull name for the beautiful mountain

Tara-The mistique and powefull name for the beautiful mountain

Tara-The mistique and powefull name for the beautiful mountain

Tara-The mistique and powefull name for the beautiful mountain

Tara-The mistique and powefull name for the beautiful mountain

Tara-The mistique and powefull name for the beautiful mountain

Tara-The mistique and powefull name for the beautiful mountain

Tara-The mistique and powefull name for the beautiful mountain

Tara-The mistique and powefull name for the beautiful mountain

Tara-The mistique and powefull name for the beautiful mountain

Tara-The mistique and powefull name for the beautiful mountain

Tara-The mistique and powefull name for the beautiful mountain

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