[2] Ripanj is located some 25 kilometers south of Belgrade, on the southern slopes of the Avala mountain, in the valley of the Topčiderka river.

[2] The location is an old mining area as it is known that already Romans were extracting mercury and silver and the tradition was later continued by the medieval Saxon miners.

One of the major Serbian industrialists in the early 20th century, Đorđe Vajfert, also owned several mining fields.

Brđani, in 1977, and Bošnjaci, in 1979, were abolished as a separate statistical entities, becoming part of the village of Ripanj again, which, since then corresponds to the area and population of the former municipality.

By 2009 upper level was prepared for the visitors, being cleaned and lighted for some 300 m (980 ft) but the project of turning it into the tourist attraction failed.

The stone pit was privately owned, but was confiscated by the state after World War II and stopped operating before 1960.

Features built with this stone include the fountain between the Novi Dvor and Stari Dvor, bordure of the Hotel Bristol, Small Staircase in Kalemegdan Park, pedestal of the Play of Black Horses statues in front of the House of the National Assembly of Serbia and buildings of Belgrade Cooperative, Elementary School King Petar I, Cathedral Church of St. Michael the Archangel and Main Post Office Building.

As the buildings began to deteriorate in time, city authorities showed interest in the quarry, not only for the repairs but also for the future construction.

For now, when some deteriorated kersantine feature has to be replaced, the artificial stone is used (as in the case of the pedestal of the Play of Black Horses).

They found still existing large amounts of already cut kersantite and that locals illegally extract the stone and crush it to cover the roads with it.

The church covers 100 m2 (1,100 sq ft) and contains two thrones made of cooked walnut wood.

Some of the largest are: Trešnja is the easternmost settlement of Ripanj, a popular picnic area located north of the Ralja river, on the northern slopes of the 310 m (1,020 ft) high Koviona hill, along the Belgrade-Kragujevac road.

It is 32 km (20 mi) south-east of Belgrade and closer to Vrčin in the municipality of Grocka than to Ripanj and the village of Mala Ivanča is just south of it.

One of the classical works of Serbian filmmaking, The Marathon Family by Slobodan Šijan, was partially filmed on the lake in 1981.

The process was tested for the purposes of cleaning the highly polluted Topčiderka river, but was applied for the first time at Trešnja.