Please note: Minimum stay requirement: 3 nights. Please make sure your booking matches this condition.
🌲 ABOUT THE PROPERTY
Nestled in the heart of a family-owned coniferous forest, Ostojino osoje is a cozy 1980s cottage designed by a renowned Belgrade architect. The house stands on an elevated plot, surrounded by 50+ mature and young conifers, planted by three generations of the Jelić family. The name „Ostoja“ honors the grandfather, who left this piece of land as a legacy of peace, nature, and endurance.
🌿 FEATURES
• Maximum capacity: 5–6 people
• 3 bedrooms, kitchen, living room, bathroom, and hallway
• Spacious yard with deck chairs, swings, lime trees, orchards, and trails
• Two water supplies (city and village), central heating, wood stove
• No TV. No Wi-Fi. Just the forest, peace, silence, and you.
• Privacy and a sense of refuge (minimum stay: 5 nights)
🍯 ADDITIONAL DETAILS
• A small beekeeping area with 4 hives
• Nearby hiking trails
• Close to highway, yet a world of tranquility
• Microclimate due to the dense coniferous belt
• Birds, squirrels, the smell of pine trees, and the feeling of returning to yourself
💭 PHILOSOPHY
This is not rural tourism, this is a personal sanctuary. We do not rent out the house for tourism, but rather with the desire to preserve, nurture, and enrich it. Guests who come are not clients — they are temporary guardians of a peaceful, family continuity.
Aleksandra (Sasha) Jelić is an artist, theatre and film director with a successful career spanning over two decades. She leads the arts organization and has dedicated her professional life to working with socially vulnerable groups, using drama as a tool for personal growth and transformation. She is also a diver, hiker, mountaineer, mushroom forager (@plodovi.gora), and beekeeper.
She dreams of transforming her grandfather’s land into a space for artistic residencies and personal retreats — a place where connection, creativity, and solidarity meet under the pines. An artivist and activist, Sasha welcomes guests not as clients, but as guardians of a quiet family legacy — a legacy they will carry with them in the form of peace, a sense of belonging, and the memory of being part of something that endures.
Ostojino osoje is located in a peaceful and idyllic part of Serbia, in the hamlet of Dolovi, part of the village of Šarani. While nestled in nature, the house is easily accessible — just 3 km from the highway exit at Takovo. This serene haven offers guests the perfect balance between privacy and proximity to main travel routes.
It is halfway between Gornji Milanovac and Čačak, and within easy reach of natural attractions like the Ovčar-Kablar Gorge, spa towns, and hiking destinations.
The surrounding area is rich in natural beauty — the dense pine forest around the house creates a unique microclimate, and hiking trails lead to nearby hills such as Krvavac, Rožanj, Vis, and Osoje. The neighbourhood is quiet and discreet, with only a few houses nearby, ensuring peace and distance from noise and crowds.
Just 1 km from the house lies a part of the village Šarani called Savinac, home to a church built by Duke Miloš Obrenović. A clean mountain river, Dičina, flows next to the church, adding to the beauty and tranquillity of the site.
Only 3 km away is the historic complex of Takovo, the site of the Second Serbian Uprising. It features a museum, a memorial park, and a traditional wooden church from the same period—precious symbols of Serbian heritage.
The nearby forests are a true hidden paradise for mushroom enthusiasts, offering an abundance of diverse edible mushroom species. Additionally, the open meadows and clearings surrounding the house are rich with wild medicinal herbs such as mint, elderflower, yarrow, thyme, St. John's wort, and many others.
The surroundings of the house are ideal for true lovers of unspoiled nature, peace, and hiking.
Languages spoken: English,Serbian