Sopocani, the medieval
Serbia’s most brilliant monument to its arts, stands tucked away among
the picturesque hills 16 km from Novi Pazar.Sopocani, the medieval
Serbia’s most brilliant monument to its arts, stands tucked away among
the picturesque hills 16 km from Novi Pazar.
The monastery was built arround 1265 by King Uros I, son of King Stefan the First Crowned. Like the majority of Serbian monasteries, it too was to serve as its founder's burial place. The marble sarcophagus above Uros‘s grave, in the southern part of the church, has survived to the present.
The frescoes of Sopocani have won recognition long ago, both at home and abroad as the greatest accomplishment of medieval Serbian painting. Many prominent art historians have described them as the best works in the Byzantine style.
