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Kragujevac is a city where the people are kind and warm, the food is excellent and cheap, where you drink the best brandy (Šljivovica). Kragujevac is a city with a great historical heritage - the capital of Milos Obrenovica with the first high school in Central Serbia. Later, the city became known for anti-fascism and mass shootings during the Second World War. This city reflects its past. Not so beautiful architecture, this city with all other qualities - should definitely be visited

I have family in KG and visit usually twice a year. If you are traveling in Serbia it's a very valid alternative to places like Belgrade. There is a lot to do and see, it just takes some amount of paying attention and being willing to explore. The central part of the city has a pedestrian walkway filled with cafes, shops, and restaurants, live music most nights, bookstores, second-hand shops, all kinds of interesting things to do and see. Prices are FAR less than say Belgrade. There is a good bus system and a Tourist Information Center to help you with that, or you can take taxis, which are quite reasonable and easy to find. There are spectacular parks, a terrific indoor pool, facilities as good as anywhere,;and some small but very high quality museums. It's a smaller industrial city but really does have a lot to offer. It's just not quite as obvious as some larger city, and takes, like I say, a willingness to do some exploring. A bus from Belgrade was, in 12/2023, about USD$10 one-way and took about an hour-and-a-half.

It's a very clean city with much more trees than Niš (my city). It's easy to navigate through Kragujevac and every street leads to a square where it is easy to see where you've been and where you are at the moment, it's very hard to get lost basically. There are markets (like Maxi or Idea) at every corner if you need refreshments or you don't want to go to restaurants for food. Since we stayed there for practically one entire day (we were there at the wedding for one entire day and departed after breakfast at the hotel, thus the only one entire day), we only visited one place with great praseće pečenje (roast pork) called Aleksandar Veliki (Alexander the Great) - Google maps show a wrong location, ask locals where the restaurant is once you are up in the hill, but basically just look at the street numbers and head upward when maps tell you to stop if you don't see the restaurant; also, the restaurant was recently rebranded with this name, the name can be seen at the door inscription. There are also a few museums near the city center, but their working hours are until 2:30 pm or 3 pm. A must see place - memorial park Šumarice and museum 21st October, a testimony of terrorism of the Nazi Germany in Serbia, a tribute to murdered students from local schools (and specifically one entire class), their teachers, friends, family and neighbors (around 2800 people were executed in mass shootings in the course of 3 days). This one has better work hours than others, it can be seen on Google and their website; the tickets are 100 RSD, so basically less than €1/$1. What may be missing is the translation of the comic since it is only in Serbian, but I advise you to use Google lens and translate it, it contains a lot of important information regarding the massacre of people in that area.

Strengths: old historical city, nice people, interesting Memorial Museum, a lot of symbolic statues, good and cheap food; Weaknesses: old infrastructure, there are still poor houses in the downtown, there are unclean places in the downtown.