Our first inscribed site that we visited in Serbia. We visited on the 31 July 2025. Hiring a car from Belgrade we drove to Zajecar where we based ourselves to visit this site. Getting to the site is well signposted and bitumen roads all the way there. There is a small ticket office and carpark out front of the site and entry was 500 Serbian Dinar per adult. About 200 metres up the road before you arrive there is an extremely large building that is destined to be the museum for this site, however it was still under construction (or closed for renovation) when we visited. There were a couple of other visitors to the site when we were there. There was no restrictions on photography or videos on the site and permission was granted to use the drone for some great footage. We are travelling with our Boston Terrier Dog and it was dog friendly with a number of 'local caretaker dogs' on site as well.

The Fortress / Palace is known by a number of names, but is more commonly referred to in the area as Felix Romuliana, which was named after the mother of the Emperor who commissioned this Palace, Calius Valerius Galerius Maximianus. It was built in the late 3rd and into the early 4th Century.

Walking around the site, there are numerous information panels that provide details on the history of the site as well as providing information on the buildings and ruins within the site itself. A number of artifacts remain on site, but most have been moved to the Musuem for protection and viewing. A couple of mosaics are available to view. It was a great site to wander throughout for a couple of hours at least. As Roman ruins go, it was interesting to visit this site in comparison with other Roman Ruin sites that I have visited, albeit there was less to view here physically.

To maximise your visit to this site (and others), I recommend travelling East from Belgrade along the Danube, where you can visit a number of Tentative UNESCO sites in the area on the way here. Afterwards we drove back Westwards to the other side of Serbia, visiting the Studenica Monastery (Inscribed site) on the way, before basing ourselves in Novi Pazar and visiting the 4 sites of Stari Ras & Sopocani (Inscribed).

You could use public transport to get to these sites, however Bus is the main public transport and Dogs are not allowed on Serbian Buses. We were advised that it was the drivers prerogative, however on each occasion we tried to catch a bus, it was always 'No'. Which as the locals had indicated was always going to be the response 95% of the time.