A holiday with great significance to the Serbian nation is celebrated in June. This is the ideal period to remember or find out more about our old Orthodox temples in Kosovo and Metohija given how Vidovdan on June 28 is closely related to this area.

Monasteries Visoki Dečani, Gračanica, and Patriarchal Monastery of Peć along with Our Lady of Ljeviš Church which were inscribed as World Heritage Sites by UNESCO are masterpieces of Byzantine-Romanesque cultural styles with significant frescoes art dating between the 13th and the 17th centuries. Other Serbian religious monasteries and churches don't fall behind since they were built in Kosovo and Metohija which was a spiritual and political center of the Serbian medieval state at the time.

Did you know that King Milutin erected 40 monasteries here during the 14th century and that there were 1,300 Serbian churches, monasteries, and sacred places in this area? We should also mention Devič, Banjska, Crna Reka, Zočište, St John the Forerunner Monastery in Velika Hoča, and many more.

Vidovdan itself is related to various versions and events in history but for Serbia, the main historical event happened on the same day in 1389 when the Kosovo Battle took place on Gazimestan field where Serbian Prince Lazar died. It may be interesting to learn how the Sarajevo assassination happened on the same day in 1914 , the Versailles Treaty was signed in 1919 which ended the Great War, and the Vidovdan Constitution was introduced two years later... It all happened on the same day.

Just imagine how even today one can learn what the 12th-century royal Namanjić dynasty members looked like - right off the Gračanica walls!