Excellent stop on a Lower Danube River cruise. When the Iron Gates dam was being considered in the 1960 archeologists surveyed the banks of the Danube and found this 10,000 year old village. The village was moved up the bank and up stream to keep it from becoming covered by the lake the dam would create. The Serbian government has built a large glass enclosure around the site to protect it from the elements. There is a museum of artifacts and a movie about the site for visitors. This is a must-do if you are in Serbia.

The fact that this archaelogical gem was hidden for centuries and that it was found and saved in the last seconds before the creation of the dam, makes you respect this discovery even more! The Lepenski vir setllement is proven to be the oldest urban settlement in Europe, which is boasting with the earliest ever found stone sculptures/representation of humans in an artistic way. Lepenski vir is definitely worth a visit! It is usually under the radar of domestic and foreign tourists, thus it's Serbia's most valuable hidden gem.

We visited here as part of a group tour on a Danube river cruise. We enjoyed our visit which was really interesting. Amazing site of early human habitation over many generations.

The video presentation included English sub titles however it was very dated, being original footage from the actual discovery in 1960s. Essential to include some of the early footage to capture the early excitement of the archaeologists/ paleologists, however it would be better if this was presented in context with a bit of better quality video.

However, a very good museum of the preserved site along with the artefacts and complete human remains found here.

It is well worth a walk around the whole site and then around the display cases containing vessels and utensils of the time plus the human remains which are all complete. Amazing discovery. Apparently out of around 130 plus skeletons all were complete, only one foot was missing out of the entire find! We can learn such a lot from these remains from civilisations living here from 8000 to 4000 years ago. Apparently it is the structure of the clay soil that preserved so many of these remains. Unique in the world to have evidence of so many generations living here on the one spot.