Embraced by the Valjevo mountains there is a valley

The Kolubara River runs trough the Valjevo Valley, along the regulated riverbed, bridged over by several bridges.
 

The town descends to the river banks

abounding with paths for a pleasant walk

and many places for entertainment.

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The Kolubara River divides the town into parts, or rather, it links the two parts of the same town into one urban whole. On the right bank of the river there is the old part of the town called Teshnjar, while the new, modern town is developing on its left bank.

Old Teshnjar

New Part of Valjevo

Teshnjar , the old part of the town, which have been revitalized, is situated on the right bank of the Kolubara River, between the river and the hill to the south of the valley. The word "Teshnjar" used to mean a narrow street. Thanks to the carefully planned reconstruction, Teshnjar is bustling with different activities, as in old oriental times.

Restored Teshnjar...

...is abundant...

...but the spirit of the old times also lives on.

A beautiful town with its wide streets and modern buildings is developing on the left bank of the Kolubara River.

The old buildings, a testimony of the rich past of the settlement on the Kolubara River, are in harmony with the modern ones. One of those old buildings is the oldest preserved building in Valjevo. It is Muselim's Lodgings.

Muselim's Lodgings were built at the end of the 18th century,...

...but nowadays the building fits in the centre of the modern settlement.

The fact that oldest building in Valjevo is only a little more than 200 years old is the evidence of the turbulent events which have often changed the look of the Valjevo Valley during the 6 centuries of its existence.

Apart from the Lodgings, a lot of other old buildings from different periods have been fitted into the town centre. One of them is the Nenadovićs' Tower, built in 1813.

Out of a spring morning mist,...

...the old Valjevo tower emerges.

In addition to those old buildings built in a traditional style, new, carefully designed buildings were built in the second half of the 19th century.

Old Grammar School was built in 1870,...

...nowadays a National Museum of Valjevo .

The Grand Hotel was built later...

...and it still works.

(View on the Grand Hotel from the Marble bridge over the Kolubara River),...

...and then...

...the new building of Grammar School.

A lot of monuments were built among the old and new buildings.

In front of the Grand Hotel...

...there is a monument to Živojin Mišić,...

...while in front of the old bank (today Radio Valjevo) there is the one to Desanka Maksimović.

In front of the old railway station there is a monument to Vuk Karadžić,...

...and in front of the new Commercial Court there is a monument to Prota Mateja Nenadović.

Near the River Gradac there is the monument to Milovan Glišić,...

Numerous monuments are a testimony to the glorious past of the townspeople
of Valjevo Region, the past which still inspires .

   Valjevo at the end of September and during the first days of October 2000  

If one starts a walk from the south part of the town centre, really pleasant places - ideal for relaxing and recreation can be reached not far away from town (The river Gradac, the hill Vidrak, Pecina park).
More distant are: Divcibare Mountains (34km), Petnica Cave (4-6km depending of way to choose), Petnica Recreation Centre (5km).

    
Historical Memorial Complex in Brankovina

      
The Gradac, one of the cleanest rivers in Europe

Vidrak

Divčibare

       
Petnica: recreation centre and the cave

Springs of Taor