Roštiljijada or Leskovac Grill Festival (; also ) is an annual grilled meat barbecue-based festival organized at the beginning of September in the city of Leskovac, Serbia. During the event, the main thoroughfare is closed for five days, with around 200 grill stands erected to create numerous temporary restaurants. The event attracts many visitors from across Serbia, as well as tourists from abroad (mostly from Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Greece, and Romania). The organizers hold competitions, such as making the world's biggest pljeskavica.
In addition to the food festival, concerts and carnival are organized throughout the event, modeled on the Oktoberfest in Munich. By the number of visitors Roštiljijada is one of the top touristic events in the country with over of 600,000 people visiting festival in 2013.http://www.juznevesti.com/Drushtvo/600-000-ljudi-posetilo-Rostiljijadu.sr.html
World records In 2016, Roštiljijada celebrated a world record in making the world's biggest pljeskavica. The giant burger weighed , was in diameter and thick and made by the great grill master Predrag Lazarević. Ljubiša Đorđević previously held the world record for his Pljeskavica ( in 2009).
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See also Tourism in Serbia
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External links
About, at the official website Roštiljijada/Roštiljada at the City of Leskovac website at the City of Leskovac website Roštiljijada at the Leskovac tourist board website