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The project is co-funded by EU trough the Bulgaria�Serbia IPA Cross-border Programme
Upcoming events
- August 2020 - Film Festival, Nis
- August 2020 - Burek Days
- September 2020 - International Art Colony in Sicevo
- September 2020 - Nisomnia
- October 2020 - Shooting rally cars
- October 2020 - Nimus
Landmarks
The even waiting mother - Koprivshtitsa - Reynitsa - Koprivshtitsa
Go in the direction of Strelcha. 200-300 metres after the curve to Barikadite, you turn south and up a cart road you reach Reynitsa side (a summer house), from where you will see a unique view of the entire area of Koprivshtitsa and the Central Balkans. On that place the nature has created bizzare chapes of rocks, resembling the monument 'The even waiting mother'. You continue along the ridge to the southeast, turn west and descend towards Novi Livadi site. Following the asphalt road you go back to Koprivshtitsa.
Church of St. Pantaleimon
The fundaments of an ecclesiastical structure, discovered in the archeological excavations in 1969 and 1970, most probably belong to the former monastic Church of St. Panteleimon. Those excavations revealed the remnants of two cult structures, now visible after the preservation works. One of them is an early-Christian basilica from the end of the 4th or beginning of the 5th century, while the other is a Byzantine basilica, certainly older than the 12th century. It is more precisely dated in the first half of the 11th century by the discovered movable material from the necropolis in its immediate surroundings: crosses, earrings, rings, bracelets, Byzantine coins, as well as by the known historical sources. The mentioned findings and historical circumstances bring about certain perplexity when trying to find out whether Stephan Nemanja had built the church "of the saint and great martyr Panteleimon in the town of Niš" as a completely new structure, as Stephan the First Crowned claimed ("and to whom he erected a shrine there"), or he had only renovated an existing temple. This question shall remain unanswered until systematic archeological excavations are undertaken. For the time being, the realization that the great church builder and renovator Stephan Nemanja wanted to make Niš the capital of Serbia points to Niš as a strong religious center with numerous temples. Some of them, and maybe just the Byzantine church of St. Panteleimon, he did reconstruct. Upon the Turkish occupation of Niš in 1386, the Monastery of St. Panteleimon was demolished.
