Drvengrad

Serbia and Montenegro / Central Serbia / Bajina Basta /
 village, interesting place, ethnography
Drvengrad (Serbian cyrillic: Дрвенград), meaning Wooden Town in Serbian is a traditional village that the Serbian film director Emir Kusturica had built for his film Life Is a Miracle. It is located in the Zlatibor District near the city of Užice, two hundred kilometers southwest of Serbia's capital, Belgrade. It is located near Mokra Gora and Višegrad, best known for Yugoslav Ivo Andrić's Nobel-winning novel, The Bridge on the Drina. Kusturica was the 2005 recipient of the Philippe Rotthier European Architecture award.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drvengrad
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Coordinates:   43°47'45"N   19°30'30"E
This article was last modified 13 years ago