Type of service: bed and breakfast, demi-pension, and pension.
Pension hotel Zvezda is located in the center of Brus. Hotel has 50 rooms and restaurant with 190 seats, summer garden, club etc.
Hotel: With 50 rooms and restaurant with more than 190 seats, Brus is nestled among snow-capped peaks of the Kopaonik national park, located between the rivers of Rasina and Grasevac. This village is an air spa that reaches the altitude of 429 meters. Amazingly, it spends 200 days a year covered in snow.
Room Facilities: TV in most rooms, direct telephone line, bathroom (shower), electricity 220V.
Information about the capacity: Rooms: 50 Restaurant: 129 seats Check - In 14:00 Check - Out 11:00
Location: As far as natural attractions are concerned, its location on the Kopaonik mountain says it all. Visitors are welcomed to enjoy the benifits of numerous thermal and mineral water springs, clean air, and are given the opportunity to explore and enjoy wild areas in Brus surroundings.
Recreational activites can be practised at every step, whether on sport fields and swimming pools, or outdoors, while skiing, hunting and hiking. Climbers will find the Pancic peak (2017 m) utterly interesting, while those less extreme can rest in the tourist centre of Brzece.
Aside from the centre, quite a few old watermills can be found lined up along the Brzece river. Visitors should make sure to attend the annual manifestation dedicated to St. Method (July the 3rd) and the "Kopaonik" art colony that takes place every year in Autumn.
Kopaonik, the biggest mountain of the central Serbia, spreads its wide mountain - ridge 83 km. long, in the direction from the mountainous region over Mitrovica, to the north - west over the series of peaks higer than 1600 m., to the highest part of the massif called Ravni Kopaonik (Flat Kopaonik) with the peaks: Gobelja (1934 m), Karman Vucak (1936 m), Suvo Rudiste (1976 m) and Pancicev Vrh (Pancic Peak) 2017 m.
The northern border of the massif is separated from the massif of the mountain Zeljina by the rivers Josanicka reka and Koznicka reka.
At the western side, along the whole Kopaonik mountain - ridge, the lbar gorge is placed. The eastern side is bounded by the rivers Rasina and Toplica valleys.
The region's geology dates back 70 million years ago when the older sedimentary rocks were exposed to the strong tectonic movements and to the volcano activity which caused dent and issue of the magmatic cliffs.
This is why Kopaonik distinguishes itself by its geological structure of rocks of different inception and age (granites, serpentinites, slates, marbles, andesites, lime - stones).
The later processes of erosion during past millenniums created present-day outlines of the relief of Kopaonik.
Climate of Kopaonik, with almost 200 sunny days annually, deserves credit for Kopaonik's other name - "mountain of the Sun". The southern position of the massif, level and openness of the terrain prevent continual detaining of cloudiness over the mountain. Colder and heavier air moves through the nearby valleys and ravines so that winter temperatures are not too low. Kopaonik has sub-alpine climate. Average annual temperature of the Flat Kopaonik is 3,7°C.
It starts snowing at the end of November and it snows until May, 159 days a year in average. On average, precipitation are higher than 1000 mm a year.
Kopaonik, where people used to work mines from old times, was named after its ore resources (kopati - to dig).
The volcano activity and discharge of hot mineral solutions caused changes on the nearby old rocks because of high temperatures and heavy pressures.That is how "mining region of Kopaonik" came to be, with a large number of mines from old times.
In the Kopaonik region, besides the usual ores: metals iron, lead and zinc, there are rare metals silver and gold and rare minerals: volastonite,fluor-spar, asbestos and others.
Thermal - mineral springs - spas are situated at the foothill of Kopaonik. Besides famous spas such as Vrnjaska Banja, Mataruska Banja, Sijarinska Banja, in the Kopaonik region there are springs of Josanicka Banja (t° 78°C), Lukovska Banja (t° 36t°-56°C) and Kursumlijska Banja (38°-57°C).
Besides thermal waters, there are also slightly mineralized waters on Kopaonik. In the first place, these are slightly radioactive springs Krcmar vode and Marine vode at the heights of 1700 -1950 m.
Because of very good climate, numbers of sunny days per year, geomorphological heterogenuos, Kopaonik is well–convenient for tourism development. Kopaonik extends to visitors-nature’s admires, joy and lovely adventures ....
There is a nice tourist center with systems of ski-lifts and ski-area for alps and nirdic skiing.
BOOKING CENTER KOPAONIK OFFERING
Summer offering:
Hiking tours - visiting the most attractive destinations on NP Kopaonik, with a guide. Every day there isa visiting of specific areas and it is possible to arrange one-day excursion and gathering season forest fruits and healing plants (detail informations in Administration building Booking Center Kopaonik, tel.: +381 (64) 9874264.
The excursion are taken places in the sites like Metođe, Kadijevac, Đorov most, where visitors can have active and pasive rest. On this mountin you can enjoy in summer and winter offering.
Monastery tours – visiting of medieval monasteries and sancturies in Kopaonik surrounding: Studenica, Sopoćani, Đurđevi stupovi, Gradac... (detail informations in Genex–Group administration, Booking Center Kopaonik, tel. +381 (64) 9874264.
Vine’s tour - visiting Župe Aleksandrovačke well-known for quality vine and brandy (information Booking Center Kopaonik +381 (64) 9874264.
Rafting Ibar - with visiting of medieval town Magliča
Paraglading school - training with parashoote wing.
Mountaineering - Pančićev vrh, vrh Šiljak, Kozje stene, Markova stena... mountain steps lead through beautiful coniferous and deciduous forests, mountain meadows and fields...
Riding school - riding horses with instructors through the beautiful Kopaonik’s region. School in nature-low-grade children’s stay, meeting with Kopaonik’s nature, meeting with animals and plants, with ecology...
Winter offering: - Skiing-with beautiful ski traces for beginers and profesionals... - Ski-surf and Paraglading-combinations of parashooting and skiing... - Winter’s nights-chage Kopaonik into mountain of fun and entertaiment...
The Info center of Booking Center Kopaonik
The information center is the point of departure of all science,cultural and tourist happenings in NP. In Kopaonik there is a gude service for presentation and popularization NP Kopaonik which gives prezentations outside and in a building, with video projections, movies about Kopaonik and ecology. Information center has its own congres hall for gatherings, presentations, meetings and other activities in protection of nature.
In Information center building you can buy differents things in a way to meet and keep the nature and Booking Center Kopaonik-prospects, cards, mountain-tourist card, books, video, DVD....
How to reach Klopaonik
You can reach Kopaonik in couple ways: - From Belgrade on high-way Beograd-Niš by Brusa or Jošanička Banja - From Belgrade main-road Ibar by Jošanička Banja or by Raška i Rudnica. With bus or a car.
What to visit?
You must learn the card of the area you past by. In this area you will found many tourist places, spas, medieval towns, churches and monasteries. You may stop in some of them. Sopoćani, Studenica, Žiča, Maglič, Vrnjačka i Mataruška banja, are worth of your attention...
Pictursque sites adorned with vineyards, orchards, flower meadowsand old forests will lead you all the way and give you strong impression that will lead you to come over and over again.