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Hercegovačka Gračanica

TIME : 2016/2/18 16:55:36

For phenomenal views, take the 2km winding Crkvina lane leading east behind the hospital to the hilltop Hercegovačka Gračanica complex. This comprises a bell tower, a gallery and a bishop's palace, but most notably the compact but eye-catching Presvete Bogorodice Church, with a design based on the 1321 Gračanica monastery in Kosovo, a building that's symbolically sacred to many Serbs. The Trebinje version was erected here in 2000 to rehouse the bones of local poet-hero Jovan Dučić.(1871–1943).