Sremska Mitrovica is a town in Srem district, in the province of Vojvodina, in the northern part of Serbia.

Understand

The town is the centre of the Srem region, with about 85,000 inhabitants. It is situated on the banks of the Sava river, near the Fruska Gora mountain. It was once the capital of the Roman Empire, called Sirmium. Ten Roman emperors were born here. The name Mitrovica means "City of Saint Demetrius" (Civitas Sancti Demetrii) and has origins in the Middle Ages. There are excavations with the remainings from the Roman times all around the town.

Get in

By plane

Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport is connected to Sremska Mitrovica by highway E70.

By car

Sremska Mitrovica is about 70 km from Belgrade by highway E70.

By bus

From Belgrade, Novi Sad, Vienna, Zagreb, etc.

By train

The Belgrade-Zagreb line goes through Sremska Mitrovica.

See

Srpski dom

• 1 Imperial palace (Carska palata), Pivarska 2. Remains from the Roman period. From the year 393. Sirmium was one of four capitals of The Roman Empire (updated Jun 2018)
• 2 Museum of Srem (Muzej Srema), Vuka Karadzica 3; Trg Sv. Stefana 15. Muzej na dve adrese (updated Jun 2018)
• 3 Srpski dom. Library, theatre, gallery. (updated Jun 2018)
• 4 Excavations from Roman times (Iskopine). 24/7 (in open space). Remains from Roman times, all over the town. (updated Jun 2018)
• 5 Railway station (Željeznička stanica). The first building built in communist Yugoslavia after World War II (now in bad state). (updated Jun 2018)
• 6 Serbian orthodox church of St. Demetrius (Pravoslavna crkva Sv. Dimitrija), Trg Ćire Milekića 16. (updated Jun 2018)
• 7 River Sava beach (Plaža), Kej. In summer time. Free. (updated Jun 2018)
• 8 Baroque square (In the town center), Trg Ćire Milekića. (updated Jun 2018)
• 9 Memorial park (Spomen groblje). Burial place for 7950 victims of the fascism in World War II. Important monument from the communist era (updated Jun 2018)
• 10 Serbian Orthodox church of St. Stephen (Srpska pravoslavna crkva Sv. Stevana). 'Little church' on The River Sava is one of the oldest churches in Vojvodina. On this place was the Roman bath, and later, in the first century AD, the Christian basilica in Sirmium. Now, there are icons painted by Teodor Kracun with unique motives, for example Christ holding a shovel. (updated Jun 2018)
• 11 Cathedral Basilica of St. Demetrius. Catholic church, minor basilica. Built in 1810. (updated Jun 2018)
• 12 Greek Catholic Church of Ascension (Ukrainian Church). (updated Jun 2018)
• 13 Zasavica bog (Bara Zasavica). Special nature reserve, auto camping. (updated Jun 2018)
• 14 Fruška Gora. Mountain, national park. (updated Jun 2018)
• Fruska gora monasteries (Fruškogorski manastiri). Fruska gora is declared as a saint mountain because of 16 monasteries still active. Thanks to monks in Fruska gora monasteries Serbian culture survived the Otoman rule in Serbia. (updated Jun 2018)
• 15 Memorial picture gallery Lazar Vozarevic. (updated Jun 2018)
• 16 St. Demetrius basilica remainings (ostaci bazilike Sv. Dimitrija), Solarski trg. Built between 426. and 441. AD. Located in the basement of a nowadays residental building. (updated Mar 2019)

Eat

The Srem region is famous for pork meat specialties - bacon, sausages and other products of pork meat. Fish is also a regional product (Srem is located between two large rivers - Sava and Danube).

Drink

The Srem region is known for good vine. Beer is also good and most people drink beer in restaurants. Schnaps ('rakija') made of plum, apricot, apple is a traditional drink in Serbia.