Drvengrad

Drvengrad Дрвенград Küstendorf (Kustendorf/Кустендорф) Mećavnik/Мећавник
Village
Ethno village - Drvengrad
Drvengrad Location within Serbia
Coordinates: 43°47′44.25″N 19°30′29.13″E / 43.7956250°N 19.5080917°E / 43.7956250; 19.5080917Coordinates: 43°47′44.25″N 19°30′29.13″E / 43.7956250°N 19.5080917°E / 43.7956250; 19.5080917
Country	Serbia
District	Zlatibor District
Municipality	Užice
Founded by	Emir Kusturica
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
Website	mecavnik.info

Drvengrad (Serbian Cyrillic: Дрвенград, meaning Timber Town, pronounced [dř̩ʋeŋɡrad]), also known as Küstendorf (Serbian: Kustendorf/Кустендорф) and Mećavnik (Serbian Cyrillic: Мећавник, pronounced [mětɕaːʋniːk]), is a traditional village that the Serbian film director Emir Kusturica built for his film Life Is a Miracle. It is located in the Zlatibor District near the city of Užice, two hundred kilometers southwest of Serbia's capital, Belgrade. It is located near Mokra Gora and Višegrad, best known for Ivo Andrić's Nobel-winning novel, The Bridge on the Drina. Kusturica was the 2005 recipient of the Philippe Rotthier European Architecture award.

Emir Kusturica stated:

Drvengrad is also known as Küstendorf, as a word play on German "dorf" (village) and Kusturica's nickname, "Kusta". Also, "Küste" is German for coast. Kusturica has also been known to call it Mećavnik, which is the name of the neighbouring village.

Drvengrad has a library, named the Ivo Andrić Library; an artist gallery named Macola in honor of sculptor Dragan Jovićević (it was previously known as Anika, after a character from Ivo Andrić's prose); Stanley Kubrick Cinema; a main house which houses a cinema-hall in the cellar, a living room, a guest room, a closed yard, a swimming pool, a gymnasium, a sauna and private rooms for the Kusturica family; a sports hall; a restaurant; a cake shop, as well as a souvenir shop; and finally, a Church dedicated to St. Sava.