Lazar’s Cave

Lazar’s Cave is also known as Zlotska Cave. It is located 3 km away from Zlot, 14 km away from Brestovačka Banja Spa and 21 km away from Bor. The entrance to the cave is on the left bank of Lazar’s river, at 291 m above sea level. During their rule, the Turks had bricked the entrance in order to prevent brigands and the masses of refugees from hiding. Felix Hoffman provided the first archaeological data about the cave in 1882, and Jovan Cvijić did the same seven years later. Since 1953, Radenko Lazarević engaged himself in arranging the cave for tourists. Lazar’s cave is categorized into the group of spring speleological objects. It has two channels, the older one is dry (fossil) and the younger one is fluvial (active). The cave river carved the cave channels. The researched channels are 1592 m long in total. Of that length, “The Main Channel” with “The Entrance Hall” is 623 m long. The dry channels and the hall are 1225 m long, and the periodically flooded spread 367 m in length. The total floor space of the subterranean surfaces is 9907 m2, and the volume exceeds 52,000 m2. Tourists are most attracted by “The Entrance Hall”, as their first encounter with the unusual world of the subterranean silence and eternal dark. “The Main Channel” is in the shape of a cross-section: in some places, it is 10 m wide and 18 m high. The cave ornaments are richly present in “The Concert Hall” and “The Bats’ Hall”. The stalactites and stalagmites, the cave columns, draperies, the tufa and calcite small tubs in all kinds of shapes and sizes catch your eye all around, making the space look nice and romantic. The most beautiful and the biggest-size samples of the cave ornaments also have their own names: “The Stacks”, “The Fountain”, “The Haystack”, “The Buffalo”, “The Imperial Loge”, “The Conductor”, “The Orchestra”, “The Waterfalls”, “Prince Lazar’s Tower” and so on.