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Sremski Karlovci
Baroque on the Danube
A small baroque town on the Danube below Fruška Gora, home of bermet, a sweet spiced wine.
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About Sremski Karlovci
First recorded in 1308, this small Danube town below Fruška Gora was the seat of the Serbian Metropolitanate and is home to the oldest Serbian grammar school. Its baroque centre is made for slow strolling: the 19th-century Patriarch’s Palace, the Church of St Nicholas and the Four Lions Fountain, built to celebrate the town’s first waterworks. Walk out to the Chapel of Peace, raised where the Treaty of Karlovci was signed in 1699, and up to the viewpoint on Magarčev Breg. Then settle into a family wine cellar for a tasting with a slice of kuglof, the local Gugelhupf.
Our take
- Intact baroque centre
- Four Lions Fountain
- Gymnasium of 1791
- Chapel of Peace
- Address
- Sremski Karlovci, the Balkans
- Our city guide
- On our Belgrade guide
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