Explore Zlatibor: Sirogojno's Village Museum & Mount Tornik

The Staro Selo (Old Village) museum at Sirogojno gathers relocated nineteenth-century timber farmhouses, barns and a working watermill, arranged to show how a genuine Zlatibor mountain community actually lived and worked before modern development changed the district's towns beyond recognition. Sirogojno is equally known for its wool: local women's knitting cooperatives have produced distinctive geometric black-and-white patterned sweaters since the mid-twentieth century, a living craft tradition still made and sold today rather than a display piece behind glass, and one of Serbia's most recognisable regional textile crafts.

Zlatibor has operated as a mountain spa since the nineteenth century, when visitors first came specifically for the therapeutic reputation of the district's pine-forest air, a tradition that shaped the resort's identity long before skiing gave it a second season. The town's food carries the same mountain character: Zlatiborski kajmak, a rich clotted cream, and pršut, prosciutto air-dried and smoked in the mountain climate, are both specific products of the district's altitude and conditions rather than generic Serbian dishes, and both are genuinely worth seeking out at local restaurants over more familiar national staples.

Mount Tornik, reached from Zlatibor town by the Gold Gondola cable car, is the district's actual ski mountain — a genuinely different peak, mechanism and view from Tara National Park's own Banjska Stena viewpoint further north, which looks out over the Drina canyon rather than Zlatibor's own rolling highland terrain. The gondola runs year-round, carrying skiers in winter and hikers and sightseers the rest of the year up to Tornik's open summit meadows and panoramic views across the district.