Srna Traditional tourist complex Inovo village Stara Planina
The Srna Ethno village – traditional tourist complex is located in East Serbia, in Inovo village, close to the Kalna village, on the territory of Knjazevac Municipality, at the foot of Stara Planina Mountain-Nature Park. The Srna Ethno village on Stara Planina Mountain is 290 km south of Belgrade, 60 away from Nis, 35 from Pirot, 70 km from Zajecar, and 130 km away from Sofia – capital of Bulgaria.
The owner of the Srna Ethno village is passionate hunter, who fall in love with natural environment and decided to settle here with his family. Then he made decision to construct such tourist complex to show visitors how locals used to live in East Serbia. On the surface of 11000 sq meters of the Srna Ethno village on Stara Planina Mountain, there is traditional restaurant, accommodation units, Zoo, children playground, summer garden, walking trails, open pool and shore of Timok River. At the entrance to the Srna traditional tourist complex there is a bridge, followed with nicely appointed stone tails, fountains and decorative greenery. Amenities of the Srna traditional tourist complex on Stara Planina Mountain are suitable for quiet holidays, weekend in natural ambiance, fishing, and hunting, various events and celebrations with live music and excellent food.
The central part of the Srna traditional tourist complex is the “Aleksej” Hotel from where spreads panorama of the whole green complex. Next to it there are three wooden chalets and open pool with bar and benches for relax. The Aleksej Hotel of the Srna traditional complex on Stara Planina is appointed in etho style, with prevailing wooden details and elements. The Aleksej Hotel boasts 45 beds in double-twin, triple, four-bed rooms and five-bed rooms. Each room of the Aleksej Hotel of the Srna traditional tourist complex come with bathroom with shower. Guests who want privacy have wooden chalets to choose, of which 2 chalets are with ground floor and one comes with two levels. Wooden chalets of the Srna traditional settlement are equipped with LCD TV, DVD and bathrooms with shower. Rooms feature warmth as they are constructed from wood and natural materials, and equipped with amenities for pleasant stay – comfortable king size or separate beds, bathrooms with shower.
Thanks to the fact that everything in the Srna traditional tourist complex on Stara Planina Mountain evokes the past times, the restaurant is completely in harmony – regarding the ambiance and food served here. There are traditional dished and game specialties served here. Given that the Srna traditional settlement on Stara Planina Mountain possesses the mangalitza farm, here guests can get cracklings, bacon, smoked meat and other traditional food prepared of this type of meat. High quality wines from the famous wine cellars of the Zivkovic and Jovic Wineries make the wine card of the Srna Traditional tourist complex on Stara Planina Mountain.
The Ski tracks of the Stara planina Ski Center are some 15 km away from the Srna Traditional tourist complex in Inovo village. Besides skiing and hiking, the uniqueness of this part of East Serbia is abundance of wild game and fishing options. There is plenty of roe and roe deer in this area, and that made the owner to name this place as Srna /roe deer/. Other wild animals that can be seen here are pheasant, rabbit, wild boar, some deer and even black bear.
Guests staying at the Srna traditional tourist complex on Stara Planina Mountain have variety of activities at disposal : mountain bike ride, hiking, mountaineering, hunting, fishing, every day routine and customs in the rural estates, walking in fresh mountainous air through intact nature, clear streams and springs, bathing in the pool or river. As per tradition there is 7 days painting summer camp organized at the Srna Traditional complex that gathers talented artists who find here peace and inspiration….