Bus from Bremen to Velika Plana

BREMEN

The Free Hanseatic City of Bremen is located on both sides of the river Weser, with its approximately 549,000 inhabitants it makes the 10th largest city of the Federal Republic of Germany. In the Hanseatic era, towards the middle of the 13th century, it developed into a flourishing commercial metropolis and is now a popular destination for visitors, holidaymakers and tourists from all over the world. Bremen is famous for the city musicians and is also one of the city's most famous sights.

The most visited and praised sightseeing places that you should visit in Bremen are:

 Bremen Roland: Bremer Roland was built on the market square in front of the town hall in 1404 and is over ten meters in size. According to an old legend, the Hansestadt is as free as the Roland statue standing and watching over the citizens.

Bremen City Musicians: Bremen City Musicians is the second well-known landmark of the city and goes back to a fairy tale of the Grimm brothers. In the fairy tale, a rooster, a cat, a dog, and a donkey accidentally meet, after having escaped the killing of their owner. Listening to the suggestion of the donkey, they go to Bremen to become city musicians.

The Bremen Cathedral: The Bremen Cathedral is located on the marketplace of the Hansestadt and is a gothic building built in the Middle Ages. Guided tours are offered through the cathedral.

The Focke Museum: The Focke Museum is the Bremen National Museum of Art and Cultural History. Here the visitor learns everything about the history of Bremen and in foam magazines so far unknown artifacts from the museum are shown multimedially.

The Schnoor quarter: The Schnoor quarter is a medieval quarter in the Hanseatic city and is characterized by narrow streets as well as half-timbered houses. It can be found in the old town of Bremen and gives an impression how the citizens of the middle ages lived and worked.

Universum Science Center: The Universum Science Center is located near the University of Bremen and offers about 250 exhibits which visitors can try out. The Science Museum was opened in the year 2000, has the shape of a whale and is divided into three themes: Expedition Man, Expedition Earth and Expedition Cosmos.

The Citizen Park: The Citizen Park is the largest private park in the Hanseatic city and is located near the old town. Bremen's citizens, visitors and tourists can relax here. There are some sights, such as the famous Marcus Fountain and the Emmabank. The reindeers can be spotted during their walks through the forests.

The Bremen Wall System: The Bremen Wall System is a fortification system and today is a parking lot which enjoys great popularity and dates back to the year 782, when a wooden wall was built around the village of Bremen in order to protect the citizens.

Velika Plana is a town and municipality located in the Podunavlje District of Serbia. In 2011, the population of the municipality was 40,578 (i.e. in the town proper, 16,078 inhabitants).

The origins of industry in Velika Plana is connected to its agricultural environment and starts in the 1880s. Before World War II, there were three slaughterhouses-meat processing plants here, first that of Italian citizen of German origin Tony Klefisch, and later that of Germans Christian Scheuß and Wilhelm Schumacher, and the one whose stocks were owned by a group of three larger and seven smaller Serbian entrepreneurs.

After WW II, all this property was nationalised and unified into a huge plant, expanding to include all sorts of food and food-related production, all the way to clothes and duvets with goose down.

Since 2009 a festival of rock music Plana Demo Fest has been organised under sponsorship of the Velika Plana Youth Community Centre. With more and more bands appearing each year, and the first foreign participants in 2011, its organisers hope that it shall become a springboard for youth rock bands in Serbia.