Drvengrad - The Wooden Town of Serbia

Drvengrad - The Wooden Town of Serbia


Drvengrad, the 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 Uzice, two hundred kilometers southwest of Serbia's capital, Belgrade. It is located near Mokra Gora and Visegrad, best known for Yugoslav Ivo Andric's Nobel-winning novel, The Bridge on the Drina. Kusturica was the 2005 recipient of the Philippe Rotthier European Architecture award.