The Pannonian Peace Route

The Pannonian Peace Route is a bicycle path that connects Osijek and Sombor,  regions  Slavonia (Croatia) and Bačka (Serbia). The Pannonian Peace Route (Via pacis pannoniae) goes from Osijek towards Bilje to the gate of Kopački rit - Kopačevo, a village where once the majority of the population was professionally engaged in fishing and which, in addition to Kopački rit, is also known for the Fishermen's Days event.

It then passes through the wastelands of Podunavlje (where the Kormoran restaurant is located), Kozjak, Sokolovac and Mirkovac.

We are talking about specific work-social communities where numerous economic and social functions were located in one place, in a planned and deliberate manner. In its golden age, the wastelands were an outstanding example of how to combine production, housing and administrative functions with quality. After the wasteland, the road goes to the village of Suze, which is located at the foot of the Bansko brdo (Bansko hill). From Suza via Zmajevac – the wine capital of Baranja, the Pannonian Peace Route leads to Batina, and later or, crossing the state border to Sombor (Serbia).

There is also an alternative route where, after the Kozjak wasteland, you turn right towards the Zlatna Greda wasteland, where the first adrenaline park in eastern Croatia is located, and then take the unpaved road, the Danube embankment, which passes right next to the island of Gornja Sigu. This alternative route is somewhat more demanding, but that's why it's also attractive. Complexes of centuries-old forests, flooded meadows that change their appearance according to the water level of the Danube, rare and protected specimens of birds... There is also an option to cross the section from Bilje to Kozjak via Vardarac and Lug instead of via Kopačev and Podunavlje.