Route: From Studenica Monastery 225 km east on route 5 and E761.
Significance: Palace and memorial complex built in the late 3rd and early 4th century for the Emperor Galerius. Both the Emperor and his mother are buried here.
Significance: The monastery was established by Steven Nemanja, founder of Serbia, in the 12th century. The buildings and paintings are mostly from the 13th and 14th centuries.
Weather: Partly cloudy skies in the morning giving way to showers in the afternoon, 54/82F.
Route: From Kotor 293 km ENE on E65.
Significance: Stari Ras was a medieval fortress that was the first capital of Serbia. Surrounding Stari Ras are a collection of churches and monasteries that make up the UNESCO World Heritage Site listing.
Route: From Durmitor National Park 166 km south on E762 and and E80.
Population: 22,601
Significance: The city was an important maritime port in the 12th-14th centuries. The city is in a dramatic landscape with the harbor surrounded by mountains. The town is filled with medieval churches and encircled by a 4 km wall.
Route: From Dubrovnik 172 km ENE on M6 and Narodnih Heroja.
Significance: We haven't been to many national parks in Europe, this one is worth visiting. It is a large limestone massif that has been carved by glaciers, forming the largest gorges in Europe.
Route: From Stari Grad Plain 160 km east on D116, ferry and E73.
Population: 113,169
Significance: The UNESCO World Heritage Site is centered on the Old Bridge, which was built by the Ottomans in 16th century. It was in the middle of the Bosnian war. The bridge was destroyed by the Croats in 1990. It was eventually rebuilt over a six year period. It was reopened in 2004 and made a world heritage site in 2005.
Significance: Stari Grad Plain is an agricultural landscape outside the town of Stari Grad. It was first turned into agricultural fields by the Greeks in the 4th century BC. The land was rocky - the Greeks used these rocks to build walls and stone shelters that are still in use today.
Significance: Although originally founded as a Greek colony, the city is best known as the site of the Roman Emperor Diocletian's palace. Diocletian retired to Split, famously growing vegetables in his garden after a long military career. The palace was built in 305 AD, it remained a Roman garrison until the fall of the empire when it fell into disrepair. Inhabitants in the middle ages rebuilt some of the town with materials from the palace and kept other parts of the palace intact.
Significance: Built in the 15th and 16th centuries the cathedral has elements of both gothic and renaissance architecture. One unique feature is that there are 71 sculptured faces around the outside of the cathedral of men, women and children from Sibenik - included as a thank you to the town form the architect.
Significance: Although Porec was an important place in pre-christianity - the UNESCO designation is centered on the Christian complex, parts of which date from the 4th century. Of note is a Byzantine mosaic. This is one of the few remaining mosaics from this period as many were destroyed after icons were outlawed from churches.
Significance: Aquileia was one of the most important cities in the Roman world, with over 100,000 inhabitants in the 2nd century CE. There is a basilica there that was built mostly in the 11th and 12th centuries, but includes a floor mosaic from an earlier church that dates to the 4th century CE.
Significance: Under the modern city of Pecs is an early Christian necropolis that was part of the Roman town, which was called Sopianae at the time. Art decorates the walls of the tombs.