Karanac

Karanac is a single long street village in Baranja, the flat farmland between the Drava and the Danube, and over the last few decades a number of households have opened their yards, barns and collections to visitors - old ploughs and carts, a smithy, a bakery oven, a school room, a wine cellar - so that the effect is an ethno village made by the people who live in it rather than assembled on a museum site. The area is ethnically mixed, with Croatian, Hungarian, German and Serbian traditions in the same street, and the food follows: paprika-heavy Baranja cooking, fish paprikas from the Danube, and the local wine.

What you actually see

• Farm collections in working yards - assembled by the households themselves.
• A smithy, bakery and school room - restored along the street.
• A mixed village - Croatian, Hungarian, German and Serbian traditions.
• Baranja cooking - paprika-heavy, with river fish paprikas.

When to go

May to October. Half a day.

Honest expectations

Collections are private and open on request or by arrangement, so turning up unannounced can find doors shut. The village is flat, plain farmland - the appeal is the interiors and the food. Restaurants need booking at weekends.

Nearby

Zmajevac and its cellars are north; Kopacki rit is east.