--- title: "Despotovac – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Despotovac, Serbia: Despotovac is a town and municipality located in the Pomoravlje District of central Serbia. Nearby: Manasija monastery. Every way…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/despotovac" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/despotovac.md" image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/Crkva_u_Despotovcu.JPG" --- Town and municipality in Serbia · Central Serbia # Despotovac Despotovac is a town and municipality located in the Pomoravlje District of central Serbia. ![Despotovac](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/Crkva_u_Despotovcu.JPG) Despotovac · Wikimedia Commons The place Despotovac is a town and municipality located in the Pomoravlje District of central Serbia. It is situated 130 kilometers southeast of Belgrade. Its name stems from Despot, a title of Serbian medieval prince Stefan Lazarević. As of 2022 census, the town has a total population of 3,595, while the municipality has a population of 18,278. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Despotovac), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Despotovac One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name. 1. Manasija monastery The Manasija Monastery also known as Resava, is a Serbian Orthodox monastery near Despotovac, Serbia founded by Despot Stefan Lazarević between 1406 and 1418. The church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity. 3.5 km · Monastery in Serbia · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manasija) Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0. Go there ## Getting to Despotovac **Airports:** Niš Constantine the Great (INI), 90 km · Belgrade Nikola Tesla (BEG), 121 km · Priština Adem Jashari (PRN), 171 km\ - Niš → Despotovac 90 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · din550–740 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/nis-to-despotovac) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Ni%C5%A1&to=Despotovac) - Belgrade → Despotovac 111 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · din660–870 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/belgrade-to-despotovac) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Belgrade&to=Despotovac) - Prishtina → Despotovac 159 km · quickest by road, 3h 34m · $16–22 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/prishtina-to-despotovac) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Prishtina&to=Despotovac) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Despotovac) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for Despotovac Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Despotovac. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Mljet](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/mljet) HR 9 ways of moving, 28 sources 350 km 2. [Korčula](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/korcula) HR 9 ways of moving, 33 sources 368 km 3. [Hvar](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/hvar) HR 8 ways of moving, 27 sources 409 km 4. [Thasos](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/thasos) GR 10 ways of moving, 17 sources 455 km 5. [Mount Athos](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/mount-athos) GR 9 ways of moving, 21 sources 497 km If you know how people move in Despotovac – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cdespotovac&title=Despotovac&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fdespotovac), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Despotovac - [Dvorište, Despotovac](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/dvoriste-despotovac) village in Serbia 5.9 km - [Beljajka](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/beljajka) village in Serbia 2.7 km - [Virine](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/virine) village in Pomoravlje District, Serbia 5.8 km - [Trućevac](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/trucevac) village in Serbia 4.3 km - [Vitance](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vitance) village in Serbia 2.9 km - [Miliva](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/miliva) village in Serbia 5.1 km [The place page for Despotovac](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/despotovac) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Serbia](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-RS) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/despotovac, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. 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