Members of the project team and volunteers of the AzBuki association presented the results of the project "Integrated tourist offer" on Monday, September 6, 2021, within the international festival Days of Tourism 2021 in Nis. The visitors had the opportunity to get acquainted with the basic information about the project through an info brochure, the [...]
Not far from Pernik, in the Vitosa mountain above the village of Bosnek, there is a miraculous spring known as the Living Water. The water there does not flow constantly and the legend says that if a person with bad deeds stands in front of the dragon, the water stops flowing. The old people in [...]
A legend about yellow flowers relates to the World War I period when French soldiers addressed a local elder woman in French. She was watering the flowers and she didn’t hear or understand well. The soldiers greeted her by saying “Bonjour” in French. She thought they said Bozur (peony), which is Serbian name for a [...]
People who live nearby tell that according to the legend the altar grants wishes – it only takes to put the left hand on its surface and whisper the wish.
The Old Turkish Bath was built at the end of the 17th century in the style of Balkan- Oriental architecture of that time. According to the legend, during the construction of the Hamam (Amama), sand and egg mortar was used as a binding material for stone and brick.
There is also a well-known legend about the Cross Mosque, which tells that the Turks built a minaret on the foundations the christian church they destroyed, but unexplained forces kept demolishing that minaret until the Turks put a cross on top of it. After the liberation of the city from the Turks, all the mosques [...]
According to folklore, it was the city of the Serbian hero Marko Kraljevic. When Marko Kraljevic had to retreat before the Turkish supremacy, he was with his horse Sarac, who left a hoof print in the east, where Marko allegedly cried because he felt defeated and hence the name of the mountain massif Pljackovica (plač–cry). [...]
It is located in the valley of the Vranjska river, under the Bujkovski bridge. This whole part of the city was named after the fountain. As the legend goes the fountain was built by a Turk in order to atone for the sins of the death of Dimana, the unfortunate Serbian mother, whose three sons [...]
Djerenka fountain is located in the Upper Bazaar. It is not known when exactly it was erected. As the legend goes: “Once upon a time, near the Cross Mosque, in a small house with a shady garden, lived a black beauty, a kara-girl, as the Turks called her. Every morning she went to a deep [...]
Beautiful Aisa was the daughter of the rich and powerful Selim-beg. According to legend Aisa, a beautiful Turkish woman fell in love with Stojan, a poor Serbian shepherd and she wanted to go to the mountains with him. Stojan did not remain indifferent either. They began to meet secretly near Vranjska river. Stories of forbidden [...]
