A new slideshow article about Serbia by Tamara Sheward has been published on BBC Travel. Titled “Serbia’s seductive charms” the slideshow contains images of some specific images of Serbia, such as the Guča festival, Belgrade nightlife, the ski resort of Kopaonik as well as some not so widely known places such as Mokra Gora, Vrnjačka Banja, FruÅ¡ka Gora and Novi Pazar.

The article describes the Guča festival as the wildest music festival on Earth and mentions an interesting comment made by the jazz trumpeter Miles Davis, who reeled: “I didn’t know you could play trumpet that way”.

The slide on Belgrade comments on the wild nightlife and displays a gig on a Danube raft featuring the local gypsy band Amaro Del.

The beautiful mountain resort of Kopaonik is mentioned as being 3 times cheaper than the French resorts. This may not be a fact, but it is true that you will have a great time on this mountain, it has great ski slopes, great nightlife (all those Belgrade party boys and girls have to enjoy the nights here too!).

There’s much more in the article, so go over and enjoy.

The traditional summer time festival, BELEF is staged in open air or in alternative urban spaces. It unifies theater, music and painting. The festival explores various city spaces and facilities, contents and innovative forms of artistic expression. BELEF strives to reflect the sensibility of Belgrade citizens and artists in all segments of its program.

The 2010 BELEF festival takes place over the summer months of July and August. Visit belef.org for more information.

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The 2nd Serbia Open ATP tournament will be held in Belgrade 1-9th May 2010. Check out the official tournament website for draws, results and other useful information such as the location of the event, stadium map, etc.

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The Serbia Open ATP tennis tournament will be held in Belgrade from 4th to 10th of May. The event will be held for the first time in 2009, it is a first one for Serbia, as it never before hosted an ATP or a WTA tournament. The tournament will take place at the newly open “Milan Gale MuÅ¡katirović” (MGM) tennis fields in Dorćol (TadeuÅ¡a KošćuÅ¡ka 63).

The XXV Universiade will be held in Belgrade July 1st – July 12th 2009. Besides the Olympic games Universiade is the biggest sport event that can be organized in a selected city. Universiades are held every two years. More than 12000 participants are expected from 170 countries. They will take part in 21 sports and 300 disciplines.

Official site of the Universiade Belgrade 2009

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