To Germany.........via the Blue Danube........i bet.......

Lepenski Vir is spectacular archaeological site in Serbia which is the Cradle of Europe. Lepenski Vir archaeological site was discovered and explored by prof Dragoslav Srejovic in the 1960s as part of the project of rescue excavations undertaken due to the creation of the artificial lake upstream of the exit of the Danube River from the Iron Gates gorges. The Iron Gates represent an exceptional natural environment with a special micro-climate. Even precipitation rate, mild transition between seasons, relative atmospheric humidity, absence of strong air currents or sharp temperature changes, lime-based ground preserving warmth, and secure food sources, enabled the Mesolithic people of Lepenski Vir to create an imposing culture whose rich and original contents can hardly be paralleled with any other of the same period, or even later. On these terraces on both sides of the Danube we find the settlements of the Lepenski Vir culture. On the Romanian side, the important sites are Ostrovul Mare, Ostrovul Corbului, Schela Cladovei, Ostrovul Banului, Răzvrata, Icoana, Veterani-terrace and Veterani Cave, Climente I and II, Băile Herculane, Cuina Turcului, Vodneac, Ilişova, Izlaz, Sviniţa, Vîrtop, Alibeg and Privod; on the Serbian side, we find the eponymous place Lepenski Vir and furthermore, Padina, Stubica, Vlasac, Hajdučka Vodenica, Velesnica and Kula. Lepenski Vir is also the name of the great whirlpool in the middle of the Danube river by Djerdap, the Iron Gates Gorge. Djerdap Gorge with its Iron Gate is a center of Đerdap National Park which is on tentative list of UNESCO World Heritage.

Lepenski Vir was the settlement of first Danubean settled farmers who were “the Children of the Sun” and lived just opposite to the Treskavac stone summit /of trapezoid shape/, on the other shore of the Danube River, in the present day Romania. With the newly built protective cover of the Visitor Center of the Lepenski Vir archaeological site, the insight to the Treskavac cliff on the left side of the Danube in Romania has been opened, towards which the whole settlements was oriented, having cult significance for inhabitants of the Lepenski Vir. The Lepenski Vir site is nowadays famous for fantastically Mesolithic buildings preserved and intricate sandstone sculptures found. Lepenski Vir is the Mesolithic site some 15 km north from the city of Donji Milanovac, the sensational Middle stone age complex settled some 8 000 years B.C. after the ice had begun to melt from the glaciers which covered so much of the Northern Hemisphere, and the time when the climate became significantly warmer. The mild climate on terraces of the Danube attracted inhabitants of Lepenski Vir. People who lived for many generations in the settlement of Lepenski Vir used to build unusual and unique trapezoid-shaped huts whose entrance was turned towards the Danube with rectangular fireplaces built of stone blocks and small sanctuaries within their homes. The central position towards the East was given to the fire place and the fire, that emphasized connection with formation of warmth and rising of the Sun. House ment stability and security while the bones of ancestors enhanced this stability and made the connection with the/our history.