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In the middle of the vast plain of Vojvodina the Vršac Mountains stand out, and on one of the hills there is a magnificient hotel-business complex Villa Breg, which terraces and windows offer a beautiful view of the comfortably situated Vršac – the town of rich historical and cultural past.
The Vršac Mountains are famous for its various flora, especially for the medicinal herbs and for the beneficial climate for asmathics. The recreational possibilities of this beautiful nature are supplemented by hunting small game. The Gudurica peak with 641m from the sea level, is the highest point in Vojvodina.
Thanks to the unique position of the Vršac Mountains in the Banat plain, diversity of flora and vegetation, rich forest eco-systems, wonderful landscapes and places with a beautiful view, greater area of the forests on these mountains, about 4,177 ha, have been protected as the natural park since 1982.

The main goal of the protection of nature in this category is directed towards preserving, improving and cleaning of the protected area., for the recreational needs of the local population and for tourism. The regulated purposes and the aims of the protection of nature should be fulfilled in accordance with the programme for the protection and development of the protected resources, which are regulated by the organization which possesses them, as well as in accordance with the specially made programme for the development of tourism. Therefore, we should conclude that the established protection of the Vršac Mountains has no limits for the development of recreation and tourism, but, on the contrary, it should contribute for the better arrangement and improvement of the eco-system in this area.
The Vršac Mountains, with 6,000 hectares of forests, have arranged hunting-grounds. The most attractive is hunting wild boars, roe-deer and pheasants. Even more famous are the hunting-grounds in the nearby Deliblatska peščara. The deer, hunted in this region are considered to be the best tropheys in Europe.
The lovers of fishing (angling) can enjoy on the river Karaš, the canal Danube-Tisa-Danube and the fish ponds. In the vicinity of the town, in the Vršac marsh, there is a lake where the anglers and hunters gather. The lake is rich in fish, and in the surrounding area is rich in mallards and wild geese. The similar atmosphere and sports pleasures are offered by the Danube, 60 km distant from Vršac.
The Flora
The flora of the Vršac Mountains has the exceptional health-recreational and esthetic-decorative function. The forest vegetation is particularly valuable, and it covers an area of about 48 km2 and makes about 28% of the Serbian part of the mountains. It covers the central massive and the lower part of the abrasive area, up to 200 m from the sea-level, and in the stream valleys up to 100m from the sea-level. Out of the total forest fund of these mountains, the oak-trees are the most represented (1364 ha), then the lime-trees (668 ha), the locust-trees (513 ha), and other discidious trees – the beech-trees, the maple-trees an so on (330 ha), and the dark pines, with only 44 ha. The great area of the lime-tree and the locast-tree forests is of great importance, because during the period of blossoming, they give the mountain region a specific aromatic characteristics, which make it good at that time, for a pleasant stay of tourists, and collecting of these beneficial flowers.

Health-recreational and other characteristics of the forest flora of the Vršac Mountains come from its physiological function.
Hunting
Different morphological entities, various forest vegetation of Deliblatska peščara and the Vršac Mountains, valley and marshy woods in the alluvial valleys of the Danube and other water currents, swampy vegetation, wealth of waters, various agricultural crops, convenient climate effects and other things, provide suitable habitat conditions for the existance of numerous sorts of game, both fur-bearing and feathered. In fact, the whole area of the subregion represents the open hunting area, where all kinds of animals, characteristical for the plain eco-systems, can find good living conditions. It means that there should be the good natural conditions for the development of hunting here, and therefore the hunting tourism, as well.
The following important hunting game have their habitats here: a deer, a roe-deer, a wild boar, a hare, a wolf, a fox, a wild cat, a badger and a polecat – the fur-bearing game, and a pheasant, a partridge, a quail, a turtle-dove, a wild dove, a mallard, a woodcock, a barn owl, a raven and a jay – the feathered game. Most of the existing game is protected. The main sorts of hunting game are determined by Šumsko-privredna osnova, with the special measures of their breeding in the fenced hunting-grounds ''Dragićev hat'' – a deer, a roe-deer and a wild boar. These sorts of game are predominantly intended for the development of the foreign hunting tourism.
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