this is in the higher echelons for sure it's the location of coronation of past Serbian Kings
what is that dog doing anyway hello everyone and welcome to a rather gray and overcast
Saturday morning in the central Serbian city of Kraljevo this is part number 11
of my 2022 Serbia series it's already over halfway through I can't believe I'm saying
that it's gone so quickly last time we were in the legendary Spa town of Vrnjacka Banja which
isn't too far away from Kraljevo or King's town in English or Royal City something
like that anyway today I've got a city to explore I've got a church to see and I'm
also planning to film the next three videos here let's hope I get going there's the dog
excuse the screaming children in the background I've walked from the bus station past one of
my favorite 60s 70s style concrete nightmare buildings love them in to this central circle
remember that from Pozega, Kraljevo has one as well and we have this monument in the middle
concerning World War One 1918 up there and I believe it was completed in the early 30s 32
oh it's just 34 up there okay lovely oh hello Angels you're making a mess never work with
children or animals unless they're cats although Serbia dogs are quite nice actually aren't they
right I've taken my jacket off because it's surprisingly warm it's the first of October
what's going on Indian summer or as they say in Russian golden Autumn anyway um this central
circle just like the one in Portugal I believe it's got a similar story behind it in terms of
Milos Obrenovic had like this sandbox thing and he literally drew with his fingers what he wanted
it to look like I could be talking [ __ ] um so here we are another Central circular Square
Railway man Krajlevo. Brilliant
right the jacket might have to go back on because it started raining brilliant and let's go to our
next spot hello um there's a bakery here all the usuals burek Pizza also I just want to let
you know that I'm addicted to Serbian bread at the moment it's bloody brilliant let's have some food
later right later has become now hello and I've got a double Krompir let's have a look pastry
potato krompir and it looks like I don't know it's got some sort of flavoring or something there
are maybe spinach or something in it I don't know let's find out it's ginormous all right
it's almost like a mild Curry flavor
let's do that again with my mouth empty it's almost like
a mild curry flavor if you know what I mean
this is your average Serbian Bakery they're bloody brilliant looks like a dog friend is also hungry
it's all very nice in terms of the design and everything isn't it you've got donuts
pastries pita rolnica i mean PIZZA rolnica which is my favorite for maxi
that was nice wouldn't it and as you can see I'm washing it down with some Moja kravica not an ad
not a spon I just bloody love it what's your favorite flavor that was a mouthful
um I'm a basic [ __ ] I like chocolate I've had keks I've had the caramel one vanilla they're all
a bit too sweet for me to be honest chocolate is the best all right let's move on right I'm full
of nicotine and chocolate milkshake let's go bre as always there's a lot of street art in Kraljevo
and also zastavas lovely there's interesting street up there
Kraljevo City and someone in a royal blue outfit Astra add Astra to the Stars I know
that says stop something but I can read the letters but I don't know what the words are
is it like a ballot box or something is it something with voting oh I haven't
seen him for a while it's Nicola Tesla there was something to do with physics and Mathematics here
in the past that's because this is like a mathematics faculty thing I think there's
a church up there that we need to go to but we don't need to but you know what I mean
this is the Holy Trinity Church built in 1819 under the rule of Mr Obrenovic but you know me
I prefer that building over there you can take the David out of Belgrade but you can't take
Belgrade out of David I thought it was closed but it was just the other gate that was locked
oh very nice got a little gift shop thing there
as you would quite often find Outside churches in Serbia little water fountain over there
one thing I love about these churches is quite often these small little Archway doors you know
well I'm five foot ten but if you were like over six foot you'd probably hit your head
it's small outside it looks like it'll be bigger I guess there's the bit behind there of course
look there's my name did they see me coming is this like a school or something
um not a residential building because it kind of looks a bit like that inside
especially if there's big big windows up there I always find churches in Serbia to be quite
understated but in a good way unlike perhaps a grand and exquisite Catholic
church or Cathedral these crazy dogs are becoming minor characters in this video
the old man just identified that there is a little kitten in the tree
excuse me it is not appropriate to chase fluffy angels stupid dog it's okay Angel
pspsps brrrp macmacmac
there we go Angel now's your chance the cat has been saved I thought I'd let you know
I heard an old lady doing that see it is real
right that's enough hilarious antics of cats and dogs for one day as you can see World War II I
mean a spomenik park at this rather impressive spomenik you know a lot of them we've seen in
previous videos are these huge geometric shapes if you like but some of them are actual people you
know so there's another one over the train bridge I believe we'll go over there in a second but I
want to say about a website I use occasionally is this spomenik database thing it's amazing
you probably know about it already if you are a spawning geek but it gives you every bit of
information you could ever possibly want to know about spomeniks everywhere and I was reading on
one recently about the fact that these spomenik were much more kind of celebrated during the times
of the former Yugoslavia I'm not sure if that's true maybe that's why a lot of them have graffiti
on this one doesn't but you know a lot of them do um and it's clear that you know some of them
in some places I've been are being looked after now whereas perhaps during the 80s 90s maybe they
weren't right we're heading over this Railway Bridge there's a rusty old train over there
brilliant um I was just talking to this old man at about 17 broken languages he was telling me
he used the word cemetery that's Cemetery but I think what he was referring to was like that it's
a memorial as per most spomeniks so have a look at that train after it's down there never mind
this spomenik look at that that is just my kind of thing right up my street better not be a crack
then well I guess the old man was right Cemetery of executed once again 1941. it appears as we've
learned from previous videos that many Massacre's executions did take place in 1941 in relation to
the Nazis and partisans can we get in that's the other question yes we can once again I'd use the
word understated is that the theme of this video I don't know but you know maybe they don't all need
to be these uh ginormous triangles but the old man has followed me for some reason I don't know what
that's about he was talking about drugs not today mate was this some sort of like Amphitheatre thing
he's brand new why is he following me am I gonna have to kill him I'll be sitting down
now maybe that's a good sign let the Hugo in this building here with the cross on the top
I'm slightly perturbed by the crazy old man watching me well I was going to go down that
way because there was this like grain Tower thing up there I think it was but it seemed
a bit sketchy to be honest and then you got the crazy old man oh he's going back over the bridge
now thank God and I'm at the uh train station that's the train I often get Red Voznje whatever
yeah it's always definitely a bit sketchy around train stations isn't it on that note let's go into
this burnt out hell hole Rusty train is it safe no it's not oh brilliant look at it what a hull
if that old man is in here ready to jump out and gut me with a rusty Fish Hook I will not
be impressed there's no one living in here I wonder how old this is Jesus in heaven
it's like uh what's that wood thingy I can't think of the name of it that's what
the walls are made of all right let's go to somewhere a bit more attractive
oh there it is can you see it in the distance I don't know what that is
right I seem to have evaded the potential geriatric drug dealer serial killer man and
now it's time to walk five kilometers to Zica Monastery the site of Coronation of
seven past Serbian Kings there's a sentence I've never said before let's go oh that was
a quick five kilometers although to be honest I think it's just the sign it's not the actual
Monastery yes I was correct I'm about halfway there but still it's not too bad I do a lot of
walking did I I was just thinking back in the day I was like five kilometers that's
like running a marathon nowadays I'm like five kilometers that's like popping down
the shops for a packet of hot dog glitzy and some Najlepše želje I love that one it's like a
tour of Maxi today we had the milkshake earlier now we have my favorite chocolate we also have
Greenery and Countryside oh all right shout out David let's go right a further 2.5 kilometers down
the road and I appear to be here up there almost fell over then look Zica Monastery
what's this please use main entrance except the main entrance is covered in rubble like coming
this way anyway because I assume that that's why it's open yeah there's some workmen there clearly
there's work being done on it it seems to be a rather large complex much bigger than I expected
but I guess in a way it is like the one Monastery you have to visit in
Serbia like you know I kind of equate it to going to wherever the queen Queen
Elizabeth was crowned Westminster Abbey wasn't it I should probably know these
things being English but whatever yeah like I said seven Serbian Kings walk around here
ah we could have got there how good there are other people means I'm not trespassing Hallelujah
wow look at this is like another entrance or maybe exit
that you would be forgiven for thinking that this was inside the monastery
you know similar types of uh artwork that we've seen before paintwork
but outside with these rather Grand almost like medieval castle looking doors just came
around the side and saw this I thought to myself non-blasphemy related curse word because look at
it look at the blue on the top that is spectacular but that's not all you guys look in here as well
there's like a bird at the top oh it's like the echo in here as well
with a slightly rustic looking paintwork I'm assuming because of you know the age
and look at that view through there
as I said it's a really large complex there are these other buildings here
to my right is that blue thing I love that
that is amazing that's quite possibly my favorite thing of the year so far but then Zica monastery
when it comes to being top-tier Elite this is in the higher echelons for sure and according to my
research as well as the monastery the building that I just highlighted which is just this Tower
there's also the coronation church dating back to 1210. this might be it I'm assuming it is um
but this is all that's remaining of the coronation church where the Archbishop would Crown the king
stunning where's that bus hello see that's that's Works especially with Monastery Angels
there's always a cat at monasteries why is that apparently there are seven entrances
to the monastery seven Kings seven entrances I'm sure that's just
coincidental rather than intentional let's go around the front one actually
someone's getting married what a place to get married
so I've been in and as you can see on the door there no filming so
um I had to be a bit discreet you know um but I forgot to check out the entrance and actually this
is kind of similar as to what inside looks like in many ways wow look at that on the wall that
of course this is where people come to buy a candle and the Heat and the smell of the wax
is quite overwhelming actually oh tall group alert hi huns so Zica Monastery behind me has
been amazing there are other buildings over there as well which I should probably be exploring but I
wanted to tell you about inside honestly it's not incredibly different to other monasteries who've
seen elsewhere in Serbia such as of Ovcar Banja and all the ones there and other places we've
been as well but it definitely comes with an extra level of wow factor doesn't it because it's the
location of coronations of past Serbian Kings it's where they were crowned like this is the
one you should come to and inside the paintwork like same as we've seen elsewhere but it was kind
of interesting like it's on like two layers almost it's almost like it's being renovated or something
or it's been maybe it was in bad condition and it's currently in the process of being redone
I don't know but like I said with that blue thing it's kind of that rustic feel due to the fact that
it is very old you know and there's a fountain here as well I think I think it's a bit [ __ ]
and also as we've seen elsewhere in the middle as you get in there it's got this
gold circular thing with the hanging light the chandelier type thing apologies if I'm
using the wrong terminology I'm not a monastery expert but you know what I
mean and that does look very apt you know it's very Regal it's gold it's circular
it's like a crown Corona you know why are there fireworks going off wedding probably
oh it's a church on the way out is it new it looks like it's in the process of being built I met a
sister on the way out because turns out I entered through the sisters entrance sorry and she's from
uzice right shall I get the bus or shall I walk ah the sun anyway as I said earlier this is only the
first part of possibly three videos from Kraljevo the next one I'm filming in my timeline in a few
hours it's a nighttime 4K walk around video and then tomorrow morning I'm going to maglic
hopefully I have heard their Renovations or something but we'll see anyway hope
you enjoyed this one Zica top tier Elite at the top Echelon brilliant
um I'll see you next time oh I think that's the bus brilliant