Zajecar is an attractive tourist destination because of the many natural beauties, valuable cultural and historical monuments, healing waters, rivers, caves, areas suitable for field trips, sports, hunting and fishing.

The most famous inhabitants of these regions were Tribali, and Meuse are mentioned too, and in the vallees of Timok Timahi. The first concrete data relate to 818. Zajecar was first mentioned in 1466, in Turkish notebook, related to population of the Vidin’s province. There is little data about the settlement from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. Failure of the First Serbian Uprising had a big effect on this part of the country. In 1833 it was finally freed from the Turks, and annexed to Serbia.

Cultural facilities and events:

- National Museum where the memorial of Nikola Pasic is,
- Gallery Radul-Bey refractory,
- Theater Zoran Radmilovic,
- Archeological Site Felix Romuliana,
- Monastery Suvodol, connected with Prince Lazar,
- Glory of the city is Mala Gospojina, which is on 21st of September,
- Brewery of Zajecar day, held in the same time as the city's fair, on 7th of September,
- Guitar music festival is the oldest rock music festival in Europe. It is more than 40 years old, and there is no one known rock band that did not participate in this festival. It takes place in the second half of August.

Natural wealth

- Zajecar is the city of precious water. It runs from 40 artersianwells in the city, with drinking water of exceptional quality which many citizens are happy to drink.

- South of the city is Forest Park Kraljevica, with larch and deciduous threes. There are many sports complexes: City Stadium with two extra, Olympic swimming pool with more courts for indoor sports, tennis courts, and a horse racetrack, 1350 m long. There are beautiful trim trails, ski slopes with ski lifts, terrains of paintball club, and ground for children.

- Gamzigradska Spa is 11 km west of Zajecar.

- Zajecar has four artificial lakes: Grlisko, Sovinac, Rgotsko and Glogovicko lake.