Guber Excursion Area and Promenade
Description
Guber picnic area and promenade is located near Srebrenica, at an altitude of 560 m, in a mixed coniferous and deciduous forest that descends all the way to the springs. The 1,300 m promenade leads through untouched nature to several medicinal mineral springs whose use is believed to date back to Illyrian times. The first scientific analyses of the springs were carried out by Viennese researchers in 1886, and at the end of the 19th century the Austro-Hungarian company Henrik Mattoni bottled Black Guber as a remedy and exported it to Great Britain, Denmark, the Netherlands, Sweden, and America.
By decision of the Government of RS on May 23, 2024, the area was declared an air spa. The promenade features the Guber restaurant, benches, gazebos, and a wooden cottage with homemade products made from medicinal waters. The site also includes a Roman ore-smelting furnace with traces of gold and silver on the walls.
Waters that traveled to America
Black Guber is not an ordinary mineral water. Viennese researchers who analyzed it in 1886 described it as a unique combination of minerals for treating anemia — a combination they had not found in any European spring up to that point. The Austro-Hungarian company Henrik Mattoni took that analysis seriously: it captured the spring at the end of the 19th century and began bottling the water and sending it to clinics in Sarajevo, Belgrade, and Zagreb, and later exporting it to Great Britain, Denmark, the Netherlands, Sweden, and America. That same water still springs from the same place today, at an altitude of 560 meters, surrounded by the forest and silence of the Srebrenica region.
What to visit and use at Guber
