Zlatibor District: Tornik, Nature Park and Culture

Winter activities around Tornik

The Tornik Ski Centre has five ski runs with a total length of approximately 10 kilometres. All five ski runs at Tornik are equipped with artificial snowmaking, extending the winter season to around 100 days. The 9-kilometre-long Gold Gondola connects the centre of Zlatibor with the Tornik Ski Centre via Lake Ribničko. The ride on the Gold Gondola takes approximately 25 minutes. Its intermediate station is located at Lake Ribničko, while the mountain station is situated at the summit of Tornik at an altitude of 1,496 metres.

Nature and landscape

The Government of Serbia declared Zlatibor a nature park in 2017. Zlatibor Nature Park preserves meadows, pastures and centuries-old pine forests in a landscape of ecological, biological, cultural and aesthetic value. There are ten strictly protected Munika pines on Zlatibor. Individual specimens reach heights of up to 35 metres and are several hundred years old. Stopića Cave is protected by the state as a natural monument of exceptional importance. It is located between Rožanstvo and Trnava, a few hundred metres from the Zlatibor–Sirogojno road and 19 kilometres from the tourist centre of Zlatibor.

Cycling, hiking and further destinations

The area around the Gostilje waterfall has visitor paths with benches and a children's playground. Zlatibor has a botanical garden where visitors can learn more about the medicinal plants found in the region. Zlatibor's cycle network runs through scenic areas on well-maintained and signposted routes with gentle climbs and descents. The Tornik Ski Centre offers mountain bike trails named Ribnica, Beli kamen, Previja and Vidikovac. The Centar–Tornik hiking trail leads from Kraljev trg via Tusto brdo, Kobilja glava, Separacija, Beli kamen and Ribnica to the Tornik Ski Centre.

Culture and history in Sirogojno

The Staro Selo Sirogojno open-air museum covers five hectares and presents log houses relocated to the museum from villages throughout the Zlatibor area. The open-air museum documents residential culture in the Zlatibor area in the 19th and early 20th centuries. In summer, Staro Selo Sirogojno offers training in cooperage, blacksmithing and pottery in three equipped workshops. The Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Sirogojno dates from 1764 and has an iconostasis by Simeon Lazović. In the surroundings of Zlatibor, approximately 25 kilometres from the centre, the log church in Jablanica was built in 1838 and dedicated to the Protection of the Mother of God.

Remembrance and regional specialities

The Šumatno-brdo memorial comprises an ossuary for the partisan fighters killed in 1941 at Kraljeve Vode and Palisad, as well as a 10-metre-high white stone obelisk erected in 1967. The International Sports Film Festival is a competition for documentary and feature films from around the world with sports-related themes. In the surroundings of Zlatibor, visitors can view, taste and buy cured-meat specialities such as beef and pork pršuta, stelja, bacon and sausage at Pršutijada.

To the higher-level travel overview: Central Serbia.

Further destinations

Further places under the same destination:

Rasina District.