Travel review SERBIA 
From the Adriatic sea to the Danube. Tour of Serbia, Belgrade and Kotor
Belgrade, Boka Kotorska
  
From the Adriatic sea to the Danube. Tour of Serbia, Belgrade and Kotor
Belgrade has a very ancient and rich history of vicissitudes. It was founded in the fourth century a.C. by Celtic peoples (I sing) along the confluence of the river Sava with the Danube, and immediately prospered as a center of commercial traffic between East and West. The Romans made this settlement (which they called Singidum) since the first century AD an important bastion in the chain of defensive fortifications along the Danube.
With the arrival of the barbarian peoples after the fall of the Roman Empire, Belgrade experienced a long series of different names: it was first the Ostrogoths, then passed to Gepids, the Avars and then the Slavs, who gave it its current name, "Beograd" (white city) in the eleventh century. Became the capital of Serbia Kingdom of autonomy until the fifteenth century, when it was incorporated by the powerful neighbor Kingdom of Hungary. It was conquered by the Ottomans in 1521, which gained independence only in 1830.
In 1918 it became the capital of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1944 and capital of the Republic of Yugoslavia. Belgrade is currently only the capital of the Republic of Serbia, following the political upheavals that have dissolved the old Yugoslav Federation.
Today, Belgrade is a modern city, the center of political and cultural life of the country, full of theaters, art galleries, museums, with beautiful beaches on the banks of the Sava and Danube rivers and large parks surrounded by nature.
Montenegro
Boka Kotorska (the Bay of Kotor) is a deep bay on the Montenegrin Adriatic coast, about 50 kilometers south of Dubrovnik, Croatia. The bay is surrounded by magnificent mounts all around, so the views are quite something. Inside the bay you can find several small towns well worth visiting, like Perast, with its baroque palaces and stories of sea captains, or Kotor, which is the most attractive - surrounded with medieval walls and filled with old churches and palaces.
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