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SOPOCANI
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.
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