THINGS TO DO
The vineyard drives of the Krajina
The slow roads between Rajac, Rogljevo, Štubik and Mokranje — the Krajina’s vineyards, cellars and villages.
Wine & History
Negotin
The wine Krajina — the Rajačke pivnice cellars, the vineyards of Rajac and the Danube’s backwater towns.
QUICK INFORMATION
- COUNTRY
- Serbia
- REGION
- Southern & Eastern Serbia
- BEST TIME TO VISIT
- September–October for the vintage (the harvest’s days in the cellars)
- DURATION
- 1 day
ABOUT THE DESTINATION
Negotin is the capital of the Krajina — Serbia’s oldest wine country between the Danube and the Bulgarian border, where the wooden cellar-villages (the pivnice) of Rajac sit among the vineyards and the region’s reds and whites have been poured since Roman times. The town keeps the Krajina Museum and the memory of Stevan Mokranjac (the composer, born in nearby Mokranje); the vineyard drives between Rajac, Rogljevo and Štubik are the east’s most beautiful slow day.
MAP & LOCATION
Negotin
THROUGH THE LENS
From the road
HISTORY & CULTURE
The Story Behind the Place
The Krajina’s vines are ancient — the Roman Danube frontier drank here, and the medieval records list the vineyards of the Negotin hills. The pivnice cellar-villages (18th–19th centuries) are the tradition’s monument: whole streets of wooden and stone cellars built away from the villages, where each family kept its wine — Rajac’s street is the best preserved. The town grew as the Krajina’s market centre; Stevan Mokranjac (1856, Mokranje), Serbia’s greatest composer, was born in the region — his choral legacy is the town’s pride.
TOP ATTRACTIONS
Sights & Highlights of Negotin
FOOD & DRINK
WHERE TO EAT
01
The town’s Krajina restaurants — the river fish and the vineyard tables
02
The cellar villages’ rustic spreads (in the vintage season)
HOTELS & STAYS
WHERE TO STAY
01
Town hotels and rooms; vineyard guesthouses at Rajac for the cellar nights
02
Camp St. Mokranjac at Kusjak — the riverside campground near Negotin (verified)
ITINERARIES
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Practical Information
Getting There
From Belgrade 3.5 h (A1 to Požarevac, then the Danube road); from Zaječar 45 min; from Kladovo 40 min. Buses connect through Zaječar.
What to Wear & Bring
Cash for the cellar purchases (the wines are sold at the source), walking shoes for the cellar streets.
Accessibility & Mobility
The town is flat; the cellar villages are car-accessible with short walks.
WEATHER
Negotin — Current conditions & forecast
Forecast data from Open-Meteo. Updated regularly.
TRAVEL GUIDES · STORIES
More here soon — the road is still being mapped.
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