English title: Ephemeral Spectacle: The Official Visits of Prince Mihailo Obrenović to Serbian Towns The paper Ephemeral Spectacle: The Official Visits of Prince Mihailo Obrenović to Serbian Towns analyzes Prince Mihailo’s official visits to Serbian towns as complex public performances serving princely propaganda, state ideology, and political legitimation. These visits were not merely tours of the country, but carefully organized rituals combining religious ceremonies, state ceremonial, urban decoration, public speeches, music, illuminations, and the presence of officials, clergy, the army, and the people. The official press played an important role in this process: it did not merely record events, but shaped their public meaning by emphasizing popular enthusiasm, communal harmony, obedience, progress, education, and modernization. Particular attention is devoted to the difference between Prince Mihailo’s first and second reigns. During the second reign, especially after 1861, the spectacle acquired increasingly militarized elements: military formations, uniforms, cannon fire, artillery, the national army, and the representation of state power. The paper demonstrates that Prince Mihailo’s official visits were an important mechanism of symbolic politics in nineteenth-century Serbia. Through them, dynastic legitimacy, state authority, the modernization program, and the political vision of a strong and organized Serbia were simultaneously affirmed.