Patriarchate of Pec

the Patriarchate of Pec

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Here is another fabulously decorated church of a monastery, the one belonging to the Patriarchate of Pec, near what is called Peje in Albanian. There are in fact three churches, connected by a common narthex. The middle one is the 13th C Church of the Holy Apostles, flanked by 14th C Church of Saint Demetrius … Read more

26. Peje

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Already on the way to the Visoki Decani Monastery we notice all along the road small cemeteries adorned with the double-eagle Kosovo flag. These are the graves of the martyrs, or, as they are also being called, the heroes of the liberation: those who have fallen during the Kosovo war of 1997-1999, when Kosovo wrenched … Read more