Fruska Gora Nacionalni Park Things to Do

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The church was wall painted at first in XVI century, but its inside was painted with new layer of paintings in XVIII. There are still visible both of that layers, sometimes on the same picture! Iconostasis was formed of the icons from different times, some of them are date from early XVI century. During the restoration works in 1962. a painting on the outside wall, on the top of the main door, “The Judgment Day” was discovered.

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If you want to see a bunch of American tourists then you should visit this monastery. Reason is simply… all turist agencies has this monastery in his programs of sightseeing and foreign tourist has chance to visit only this one (and maybe few more) of all monasteries on Fruska Gora.

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The iconostasis of the monastery church was made by Dimitrije Bacevic, Janko Halkozovic and Teodor Kracun, in the 1750s and 1760s Only one composition of the wall painting survived. It is was painted by wall painted by Janko Halkozovic in 1782. Simultaneously with the conruction of the church, the previous chapel was built and fitted with an iconostasis in 1739. The present chapel was built in 1905, according to the desing by Vladimir Nikolic.
During World War II, the monastery was looted and all treasure were taken to Zagreb, while the buildings were left intact.

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The monastery church is dedicated to the Assumption of Christ. The time of founding is unknown. It is firtst mentioned in Turkish records dated 1566-67, when its church was a small single-nave building modeled under the influence of traditional architecture. The monastery was damaged and deserted in the Austro-Turkish Wars and restored in 1699, by the refugee monks from Raca, who also built a temporary wooden church was built from 1732 to 1740 and the bell-tower with a porch in front of the west facade was completed in 1762. The monks' quarters, built between 1728 and 1771, are located to the sourth and west of the church. An extensive reconstruction of the monastery complex was carried out in 1893, and some minor changes were made in 1921.

Stražilovo is probably the largest and most famous picnic area here.

This is also the place where a Serbian romantic poet and a famous student from Sremski Karlovci Grammar School, Branko Radičević, lies buried.

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"Oh Karlovci, dear place of mine!
I came here as no more than just a child;
and children's game was all
that was important;
figs and honey were the only sweet I knew.
Just a child - unfledged bird;
A bird that came and felt like home..."

Part of a poem by Branko Radicevic

The monastery Krusedol is a memorial of the last Serbian Duke Djordje Brankovic. It was built in 1516 and it was destroyed and renovated several times. Here were buried famous persons of Serbian history as are Arsenije III Carnojevic who leaded the great migration of Serbs from Kosovo in 1690, Arsenije IV Jovanovic (Sakabenta), voivode Stevan Supljikac, King Milan i Duchess Ljubica Obrenovic.

The Monastery of Novo Hopovo was built in 1576 and according to its history, it is a work of Srem's Brankovici. In the monastery stands out the fresco "Massacre of children in Betlehem" painted by the famous icon painter Teodor Kracun.