Pirot is a small European town in the southeast of Serbia with a rich cultural tradition and turbulent history. It is located on the important international transversal "Corridor 10" connecting Europe with Asia, known in the Middle Ages as the Via Militaris.
Pirot owes its recognizability above all to Pirot cheese, Pirot carpet and today certainly to the biggest investor "Tigar Tires".
In recent years, investments in infrastructure and improvement of public services have been intensified. Numerous of projects, financed from European funds, have been implemented.
Today's Pirot aspires to be a developed and competitive city, with preserved and protected natural and cultural heritage, specific local gastronomy and brands, quality environment, with improved infrastructure, stable economy and favorable business environment, a city of sports and youth. Pirot received city status in 2016. City Day is celebrated on December 28. The city today has about 49,601 inhabitants (of which 24,829 men and 24,772 women) with the surrounding villages. The administrative district of Pirot includes the following municipalities: Bela Palanka, Dimitrovgrad and Babušnica.
The city opens its doors wide to all investors who want to invest their capital in the development of the Pirot economy and is at their disposal in consulting and obtaining the necessary documentation as well as in the form of any other assistance.

Geographical location of Pirot
The city of Pirot, in terms of its geographical position, has the main characteristics of the central areas of the Balkan halfisland, because it is located on the east-southeast side of the Moravian valley of the meridian direction, in the Nišava valley, which as an integral component of the important Moravian-Nišava-Marica valley divides eastern and southeastern Serbia.
From a geomorphological point of view, the city of Pirot consists of the Pirot Basin (13%) and a mountain area with valleys (87%).
There are three regions in the city area: mountainous with 40%, and hilly and plain with 30% of the total area.
The Pirot field consists of the fertile valley of the river Nišava, which stretches from the village of Blato and the mountain Belava on the west side, and from the southeast all the way to the village of Sukovo.
Pirot, as a large regional center, is located in the low plain of the Pirot field, in the vicinity of which the most economically and numerically developed settlements of the city of Pirot are predominantly located. South and southwest of Pirot is Barje (Barje), part of the Pirot field, an area that was wet and swampy in the past. Basin is closed from the north and east by the branches of Vidlič and the Tepoš plateau, and from the south and west by the plateau at the foot of Stola and between Stola and Belava. The rest of the municipality is filled with massifs, plateaus and valleys of the Balkan mountain area.

Photo source: Aleksa Cakić