Fruska gora

Fruska gora is a natural treasury of health. At every step, at every look, snap and sigh - she shares her gifts unselfically, making us stronger and healthier.

Fruška gora, an old rocky mountain that stretches in the northern part of Srem, has great ecological, historical and cultural importance. Once an island in the Pannonian Sea, and today a national park, Fruška gora has more than 1,500 plant species, 220 bird species, 60 mammal species and 23 amphibian and reptile species.

The position of the mountain itself and its vegetation are responsible for the creation of a special local climate, which is extremely beneficial for the body and psyche, and the wind called fruškogorac contributes to this as well as the air flow, the so-called wind rose. In the 14th century, Stefan Lazarevic, son of Prince Lazar, recorded the importance of Fruška Gora in his writings because of its special energy that it emits and which heals. The tangle of winds that cross above this magical place seems to have been created to help man heal his body and calm his spirit. Air too rich in oxygen and ozone is beneficial for the respiratory organs, but also for overall health. Simply put, when you breathe on a mountain, you breathe in pure nature.

The fruska gora national park and the special nature reserve of the gornje podunavlje are the first protected areas in serbia which received the european charter for sustainable tourism of the europark federation by the world fund for nature (wwf).

The air is of exceptional quality, the climate is moderately continental, with a large number of sunny days a year and very little precipitation.

The linden tree is the sacred tree of all Slavs, and linden groves and individual specimens were once the center of the cult of the Slavic religion. Fruška gora can boast of the largest concentration of linden forest in Europe. The flowering of the linden on the mountain is accompanied by the visit of beekeepers from the entire region and the grazing of bees, because the honey from this mountain contains as much as 93 percent linden nectar, so it is not surprising that the geographical origin of this honey is protected.

Fruska gora, in addition to various flora and fauna, can boast a rich world of mushrooms, with over 1,400 registered species, of which 200 are medicinal, edible or conditionally edible mushrooms.

500 species of butterflies flutter through the national park, and 211 species of birds fly through the sky, and 130 nest here, which makes it one of the most important nesting areas for rare birds in Serbia. Among the birds is the crusading eagle, the most endangered variety from the world "red list". For now, in our country, there are only its nests on Fruska Gora.