Project №CB007.2.11.224 "Heterotopias" CCI Number 2014TC16I5CB007

Leskovac Carnival

Leskovac is a city with a carnival tradition of more than eighty years. The first carnival was held in 1929 at Poklade on the theme "Marriage of Marko Kraljevic". The Leskovac Carnival is one of the mos...

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Babičko Monastery

It is located about 10 kilometers from Pecenjevac, two kilometers southeast of the village of Babicko. The church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity, and was built in the 16th century. It is a single-nave...

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Skobaljić town on Kukavica

Skobaljićgrad is located 20 kilometers southeast of Leskovac. Erected on the steep and inaccessible cliff of the mountain Kukavica on the left bank of the canyon of the river Vučjanka, hidden by the nei...

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Church of St. Fridays in the village of Rudar

3.5 kilometers east of Leskovac, on a branch of the mountain Kukavica, on Rudarskakosa, outside the village of Rudar, there is a church dedicated to St. PetkaTrnovska. In the immediate vicinity is a boa...

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Church of St. Nikola in Čukljenik

Church dedicated to St. Father Nikola, is located south of Leskovac, on the northern slopes of Kukavica in the village of Čukljenik, near the Nakrivanjskariver. It is assumed that it was built on the fo...

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Public Library "RadojeDomanović" in Leskovac

The RadojeDomanović Public Library is one of the oldest cultural institutions in the city. The first written information about the founding of the Chitalishte comes from 1879. Today, it is a modern publ...

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Museum of Textile Industry in the village of Strojkovac

The Textile Museum in Strojkovac is the only museum of its kind in Serbia. It is located in a mill that was built in the second half of the 19th century. Judging by the size and living quarters in its c...

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Church of St. Friday at Kumarevo

Near the village of Kumareva, 4 kilometers northwest of Leskovac, in the same gate there are two churches, both dedicated to St. PetkiParaskevi. The old church was built according to tradition from the ...

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Cathedral of St. Three

The cathedral church in Leskovacis dedicated to the descent of the Holy Spirit - the Holy Trinity. It was built next to the old church of Odžaklija. The church was completed and consecrated in 1931 acco...

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Church of St. Elijah on Hisar

On the plateau above the Svetoilijski cemetery, on the slopes of the hill Hisar, on the foundations of an older temple from the Middle Ages, a church dedicated to St. Elijah. The church was built in the...

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Convent of the Presentation of the Most Holy Mother of God

Female monastery of St. The Mother of God of the Introduction was raised in 1499 by the founders Ksenija, Teofana, Marta and Marija. It is presumed that they belonged to the Kantakuzin family and that t...

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National Theatre

The beginnings of theatrical life date back to the end of the 19th century, when in 1896 the theater company "Jug Bogdan" was founded. In the period between the two world wars, the City Theater (1926) a...

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Church of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist in Grdelica

It is located outside the town of Grdelica, on the edges of the Grdelica gorge, southeast of Leskovac. It was built as an endowment of the industrialist Jovan P. Jovanovic. The construction of the churc...

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Town house

It is one of the most beautiful old houses in Leskovac. It has existed for more than one hundred and fifty years and is a clear example of a Balkan-style house. It was built in the second half of the 19...

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Permanent exhibition "Time machine of the Leskovac region"

The crown of the Museum's decades-long work is a new permanent exhibition, "The Time Machine of the Leskovac Region", which chronologically and thematically exhibits material from prehistory to the begi...

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Archaeological site Caričingrad

Caricingrad or Justiniana Prima (Iustiniana Prima), an archeological site from the sixth century, is located 29 kilometers southwest of Leskovac, seven kilometers from the town of Lebane, in a valley th...

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Book collaboration Botevgrad - Leskovac

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