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The 50,000 km. of waterways in Serbia have adorned the country with its silver tassels. The Morava river winds through the country offering a lot of fish to fishermen. If, instead of a goldfish, you desire to hook in the real gold, the banks of the Pek river are waiting for you. The boats cross the Tisa, the sailboat the Sava river. The mills keep grinding the grain on the streams of Sumadija. The meanders wind their courses, the rapids dance...

Man took upon himself the duties of nature and created numerous artifical lakes: the lakes of Djerdap, Vlasina, Bor, Zlatar, Srebreno near Gradiste...

Every stream, cascade or fountainhead in Serbia ends in a river, and all the rivers in Serbia (save two) in the Danube. The Danube, parts of which in Serbia remind one of a sea, has always linked us with the world. It is not until it reaches Serbia that the Danube becomes the largest navigable river in Europe.

For centuries, the great river has been coming to us and leaving us – and is returning to us in the form of electricity. On its way out from the Djerdap canyon the mighty Danube has been tamed and made to serve one of the largest hydroelectric power plants in Europe.

They say that the waters are the eyes of a country. Serbia must have a twenty-twenty vision. All-seeing eyes.

 



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