The best traffic-free bike rides around Национални парк Фрушка гора

on one side it is a great place with many trees, ideal for camping

It was founded between 1509 and 1514 by Saint Maksim Brancović. It was originally planned to be converted into a mausoleum for the Branković family.

Unfortunately there is a lot of rubbish here.

An unfinished or abandoned house with a “PRODAJE SE” (For Sale) sign asking €250,000. Overgrown vegetation adds a post-apocalyptic atmosphere. Such places can be curious stops for a break. If you’re exploring real estate, note that rural homes like this are often cheap but need major renovation.

Locations like this are interesting landmarks but usually restricted areas. Best to take quick photos from outside the fence without lingering too long.

After this climb from Bešenovačko jezero towards Bešenovo, you will be able to enjoy a nice downslope ride all the way to Veliki Radinci. Low traffic, nice asphalt.

The building is a good example of modernist architecture that was dominant in Yugoslavia between the two world wars. Although the author of the hotel was Marjan Ivačić, the original project was adapted by Đorđe Tabaković, one of the leading architects of Yugoslav modernism. The hotel was erected in 1935 on the initiative of the Mountaineering Society "Fruška Gora." The society was founded in 1924 to popularize and develop local tourism, mountaineering, and re-connection with nature. Among the founders was the lawyer Ignjat Pavlas (1886-1942), a pre-war Yugoslav patriot and leader of anti-Axis demonstrations held in Novi Sad on the 27th of March 1941, as well as Vasa Stajić, a famous Serbian intellectual, politician, and anti-fascist. In the Youth Organization of the Mountaineering Society "Fruška Gora," some prominent communist and anti-fascist activists were active, such as Branko Bajić (1911-1942), a member of the Regional Committee of KPJ for Vojvodina. He used this organization as a cover to organize camping meetings of Communist Youth from the Vojvodina province on Fruška Gora before the war started. During the war, Hotel "Venac" and its surroundings were one of the most important fascist strongholds in the Fruška Gora hills, and the hotel was occupied by German and Croatian military units throughout the conflict. Iriški Venac region was liberated by the 7th Vojvodina Brigade in the middle of October 1944. After the war, the hotel was renovated and used for tourist accommodation until the civil war in Yugoslavia in the 1990s, when the hotel was transformed into a refugee center for Serbian people from Bosnia and Croatia. After their resettlement, the hotel was closed down and left to decay, which remains the case to this day. [This site is part of the Liberation Routes cycling tour "The Danube to Victory Route" (58km)] https://www.komoot.com/tour/1933369594?share_token=aRc7kQYJ01cywoOlRPXzWvplRxrDI3K22D17Rs90xCFiVo5TvF&ref=wtd

Before World War II, Iriški Venac was one of the central points of Fruška Gora, located at the intersection of Grebenski Put (Ridge Road), today called the Partizanski Put, and the road between Irig and Sremska Kamenica. As an important communication center, Iriški Venac was under the armed control of the occupiers throughout the war and was only liberated in October 1944 by the units of the 7th Vojvodina Brigade. The monument known as "Freedom", dedicated to the fallen fighters and the National Liberation Movement (NOP) of Vojvodina, is one of the first more representative monuments erected in the territory of Vojvodina, and it is also among the most impressive monuments erected in the first decade after liberation across the entire territory of Yugoslavia. Even though Iriški Venac was not of major importance for the Fruška Gora partisans, it was chosen for the location of this monument, being the tourist and traffic center of the mountain. It was unveiled on July 7th, 1951, on the 10th anniversary of the Uprising in Serbia, in the presence of around 100,000 citizens. The author of the monument is the renowned sculptor Sreten Stojanović. "Freedom" belongs to the group of figurative-architectural monuments. The monument is built of Belovac stone and paved with Motajnica granite. The total height of the monument is 36 meters, and the figure of a woman - the personification of the ideal of freedom - at the top of the obelisk is 7 meters high. By some accounts, the figure of the woman is oriented towards Bosnia, because that is where most of the partisans from Srem and the entire Vojvodina province went to combat. In front of the obelisk, on a high pedestal, there is a composition made up of six figures, symbolizing the people of Srem and Vojvodina who rose up in revolt. The base of the monument is framed by a bronze relief 50 meters long, which, through several chronological and thematic units, presents the development and course of the People's Liberation Struggle (NOB) in the area of Srem. Among other things, the relief depicts the entry and terror of the occupiers, the beginning of the uprising, the cooperation between the common people and the partisans, armed conflicts with the occupiers, and the final victory. [This site is part of the Liberation Routes cycling tour "The Danube to Victory Route" (58km)] https://www.komoot.com/tour/1933369594?share_token=aRc7kQYJ01cywoOlRPXzWvplRxrDI3K22D17Rs90xCFiVo5TvF&ref=wtd