"Balkan Express" is a series in its second decade of presence in the ERT3 television program. It is an ongoing trip to the Balkans that seeks to reconnect the Greek audience with an area of our geography that is important for our history, culture, economy, and future. The Balkans are the bible of European culture, a laboratory for the production of history, a geostrategic crossroads, and a place of development of Greek extroversion. "Balkan Express" makes an acquaintance with a neighborhood that we are called to coexist in, in a European context, and to manage vital issues together. It is an exciting experience in a part of an unexplored Europe with unique natural diversity, gastronomy, music, and folk culture, but also with modern life and innovative spirit, having a lot to offer in today’s world.

On this episode of “Balkan Express”, we take you to the strangest town in western Serbia. Ujice, the "city of skyscrapers", which in 1941 became the "capital" of the short-lived "Republic of Ujice", which had been liberated, for 67 days, by Tito's Partisans. We seek the controversial legacy that Tito has left to the city, learn about the deadly 1941 explosion that killed 120 Partizans, and at the same time capture the identity of a contemporary, provincial Serbian town. We go to the Serbian village of Zlakusa, the "Mecca" of Serbian pottery and discover the secrets of this traditional art. We visit the woodcarving workshop of Miladin Lekić, with his unique style. Finally, we enter the farms where Serbia's "red treasure" is produced. This is none other than Raspberries the "tame blackberries", produced in the Arilje region, exported all over the world, and have provided high incomes and prospects to Serbian growers.