Teslic

Teslic Main Street

Teslić (Cyrillic: Теслић) is a town and municipality on the Usora River in the central part of the Republika Srpska entity, in north-central Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Understand

Tesliċ is also known as a tourist destination, mainly because of the Banja Vrućica, а health spa for healing cardio-vascular diseases. With a complex of five hotels and a capacity of over 1000 beds, Banja Vrućica has the biggest tourist capacity in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is also worth mentioning nearby mountain Borje, an attractive tourist destination, with two hotels and sports facilities.

History

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Coat of Arms

The town was settled in the 19th century with the first industrialization of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Main industries are wood products and the chemical industry. Long before Tesliċ began to rise a nearby village called Čečava existed as one of the oldest places people inhabited, there is archaeological evidence that Čečava existed as early as the 10th century. Teslić was until the late 1950s among the largest industrial centers in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Today Tesliċ industry is mostly based on the production of wood, milk, clothing, telecommunications, electro industry, metallic industry and building construction.

Get in

By plane

The closest international airport is at Banja Luka. If arriving by plane, you can travel via Belgrade (Serbia), Sarajevo (Bosna and Herzegovina) (shorter route), or Zagreb and Dubrovnik (Croatia).

By bus

You can try and find direct bus lines from some of European cities to Teslic and Doboj (about 25km from Teslic), but in that case your journey may be quite long. A bus from Belgrade costs about 12 Euros (Oct 2006), Buses also run from Sarajevo and other cities.

Bus Zagreb - Doboj Departure: 14:00 Arrival: about 18:00

Price (one-way): about 13 Euro.

BELGRADE BUS STATION Železnička 4, 2644-455, www.bas.co.yu Ticket Offices 00-24 Information and reservation, tel. 2636-299 (5.30 AM -10.00 PM) BAS turist, Železnička 4, tel. 2658-759, 2627-146 (7.00 AM - 8.00 PM) BAS turist, Sremska, tel. 2622-526, 180-377 (8.00 AM -8.00 PM)

Bus Belgrade – Doboj Departure:07:00 - Arrival: 13:00 Departure:10:00 - Arrival: 16:00 Departure:22:30 - Arrival: 04:30

Bus Novi Sad – Doboj Departure:06:00 - Arrival: around 11:00 Departure:07:00 - Arrival: around 12:00 Departure:07:30 - Arrival: around 12:30

By train

Railway options are pretty good as Doboj is railway junction of BiH. From European countries, direct lines from Belgrade, Zagreb, Sarajevo and Nis are bus and railway lines, as follows:

Train Zagreb – Doboj Departure: 8:57 Arrival: 14:55 Price (one-way): about 15 Euro.

Train Belgrade – Doboj Departure: 15:30 Arrival: 22:30 Price (one-way): about 11Euro.

Train Budapest – Doboj Departure: 17:45 Arrival: 02:27 Price (one-way): about 35 Euro.

Train Sarajevo – Doboj Departure: 10:41 Arrival: 13:34 Departure: 20:32 Arrival: 23:25 Price (one-way): about 9 Euro.

For more information – www.zrs-rs.com

See

• Liplje Monastery [1] Through the mountains from Teslic to Banja Luka is a stunning Orthodox monastery from the 14th century. Liplje Monastery's (Liplje bb; tel: 053 441 022) architecture lends itself to one of the most beautiful sacred places in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is open to visitors.

In Teslic town the local Orthodox Art Gallery and Museum exhibitions (Svetog Save 60; tel: 053 736 363) are certainly a worthwhile visit. You may find reasonably priced gifts and handmade souvenirs that are distinctly Byzantine in style.

• About 5 km to the South-East from the city center there is a location of medieval tombstones of Duke Momčilo.
• Selo Čečava [2]
• Rastusa Caves [3] located between Teslic and Doboj, about 12 km from the city center. Tel: + 387 53 445 754

Do

• Connect with Teslic residents on Facebook at http://facebook.com/teslic to learn more about the latest events before you visit.
• Try fresh testing mineral water at Banja Vrucica Springs
• Watch Proleter Teslic Football Club Soccer at "Radolinka" Stadium by the river Usora. See schedule for FK Proleter Teslic at http://www.fsrs.org/?n=modules/prvaliga

Eat

• Plavi Cvet, popular restaurant in a city center serving local food including great pasulj, stuffed peppers, mixed grilled meat and more. Plavi cvet s.u.r. 74270 Teslić, Svetog Save 32. Tel. 065 567 402.

Drink

• XL Club, Karadjordjevića 55, 1000 spinning Disko, House, Electro, Reggae, Techno, etc.

Sleep

Tesliċ is also known as a tourist destination, mainly because of the Banja Vrućica, а health spa for healing cardio-vascular diseases. With a complex of five hotels and a capacity of over 1000 beds, Banja Vrućica has the biggest tourist capacity in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is also worth mentioning nearby mountain Borje, an attractive tourist destination, with two hotels and sports facilities.

Spa of Vrucica

The thermo-mineral water, as the most important resource, the geographic position and the climate, the arranged complex and built capacitis, as well as the people factor, contributed that the Spa offers a very wide spectrum of healt services today, out of them are an included part of defined health programms.

The accommodation capacity of Vrucica Spa are circled to some more than 1000 beds so far, and including private accommodation of about 500 categorized beds, make this Spa complex a leader in our environment in the area of the health, congress and recreation tourism.

Hotels

• The Kardial Hotel - 435 beds, restaurant with teracce (600 seats), night club, cafe exchange office and boutique, congress hall with (450 seats), ten congress rooms (20 to 100 seats), additional equpment, additonal service, etc. recreation: bowling, swimming pool, trim-cabinet, fitness-room.

• The Posavina Hotel - 270 beds, restaurant with terrace (280 seats), therapy room, night club and boutique.

• The Hercegovina Hotel - 158 beds, complete prevention, treatment and rehabiliation programme.

• The Serbia Hotel - 179 beds, aperitiv bar, pizzeria, four small saloons with 20-100 seats. It is connected with central treatment center (all medical services are provided here), hotel Herzegovina and restaurant Ozren by heated underground tunnel.

• "Kardial" +38753/421-200
• Room number: +38753/421-broj sobe

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