The town of Koprijan, today’s Kurvin grad or Korvin grad, is one of the significant monuments Serbian medieval history and culture. It is believed that the vulgar name of the city – Kurvingrad was given after the immoral wealthy lady who lived in this city. According to the legend, this wealthy empress, seduced a priest or a monk from the monastery on the neighboring hill, the monastery of St. John. To make it easier for them to meet, she ordered the canvas to be stretched from the city to the church when she was crossing. According to local legends, this immoral lady went every night stepping on the cloth to pray in the monastery. As she did it at night, the locals doubted her good intentions and the stories about her not going to pray but to secretly meet the monk started circulating in the old city. According to the residents, she seduced the monk and this forbidden love actually transformed the name of the city, which is still called “Kurvingrad”- the town of the immoral woman.
