Tito's Villa, Palisade - Aleksandar Pavlović's Villa
Tito's Villa or Aleksandra Pavlovića's Villa is the only building in the center of Zlatibor that the Institute for the Protection of Monuments in Kraljevo declared as a cultural asset.
In the period between the two world wars, parallel to the development of Kraljevi vode, in the area of today's Zlatibor, the Palisad settlement was formed, where the wealthy citizens of Belgrade built their villas.
Despite intensive construction, the natural beauty of Zlatibor remained preserved, and some villas stood out as particularly representative. Among them, the villa of Aleksandar Pavlović stood out. Aleksandar Pavlović, originally from Gornja Milanovac, was one of the youngest Serbian lawyers - he started practicing law at the age of 23.
In 1937, he decided to build a villa in Zlatibor and stuck to that decision despite his wife's opposition. During construction, the villa was jokingly called "Madre Andree", after Pavlović's wife Andrea, who was not enthusiastic about the idea of building in a remote and poorly developed part of Zlatibor at the time. After the Second World War, in 1945, the villa was confiscated and renamed Villa Yugoslavia. It later became known as Tito's villa, because Josip Broz Tito stayed there several times, before the construction of the Palisad Hotel, where he later stayed in the presidential suite. In the 1970s, the villa was declared a cultural asset and placed under state protection.
Today it functions as a restaurant, but it was never returned to its original owners. The fate of the villa remained inextricably linked to the personal story of the Pavlović family.