Orasac Travel Guide

 Prasnjavi Says:  A broad action is to be initiated and funds are to be provided in order to realize this project of protecting and arranging of the renowned place of Orasac, with the participation of all the Serbs within the country and abroad. In the exhibition and the galery (entrance from... 

 Prasnjavi Says:  Orasac is the place where, in Maricevica Gully in 1804, Karadjordje was chosen leader of the First Serbian Insurrection against Turkish rule, thus becoming one of the sacred places of freedom in the history of Serbian people.A church, a school and a memorial drinking-water... 

 Prasnjavi Says:  It was erected between 1868 and 1870. The architect who designed the church is not known. According to its size, it is a small, architecturally modest building with harmonized proportions and simple shapes. Its rectangular base ends in its east portion by a five-sided altar... 

 Prasnjavi Says:  The bronze plaque on the right-hand side of the buttress depicts a high bass relief of Karadjordje, girdled by the text in archaic Serbian language saying: THE SUPREME LEADER OF THE SERBIAN PEOPLE. This portrait of Karadjordje is the work of Raja Nikolic, the sculptor from... 

 Prasnjavi Says:  The Memorial Drinking-water Fountain contains three arched marble plaques in the intermediate portion of this monument. The middle one carries the text that says: "IT WAS ON THIS SPOT THAT THE FIRST SERBIAN INSURRECTION WAS RAISED ON FEBRUARY 15, 1804." 

 Prasnjavi Says:  The left- and right-hand plaques each carry four lines of the well-known epic poem "The Commencement of the Uprising against Turkish rulers" and bronze plaques. The one the left shows the scene when Kaadjordje was choosen for the leader of the First Serbian Insurrection. 

 Prasnjavi Says:  The Memorial Drinking-water Fountain is located in Mariceva Gully, not far from the church. It was set up in 1954, at the event of celebrating the150th anniversary of the First Serbian Insurrection against Turkish rule. The fountain is a part of a larger compound comprising... 

 Prasnjavi Says:  "THE PEOPLE'S SCHOOL - THE MEMORIAL ON THE INSURRECTION RAISED UNDER KARADJORDJE'S LEADERSHIP IN ORASAC. THANKFULL SUMADIJA REGION RAISES THIS HOME IN THE MEMORY AND GLORY OF GREAT KARADJORDJE AND OTHER UNYIELDING AND DESERVING ANCESTORS WHO IN 1804 RAISED THE INSURRECTION... 

 Prasnjavi Says:  This memorial compound (a church, a school and a memorial drinking-water fountain in Maricevica Gully) was declared a protected cultural entity by adequate decision of the Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, in 1979. Orasac is categorized as permanent cultural treasure of... 

 Prasnjavi Says:  The monument, dedicated to this leader and his known and unknown heroes, represents a modest mark and a sincere indication of the gratitude endowed to famous ancestors. This generation is deeply aware of the fact that what they owe to these heroes cannot be repaid by the... 

 Prasnjavi Says:  The school building consists of ground floor and first floor. It was built out of precisely cut and finely processed granite blocks. The arched windows, some of them threefold, nicely decorated posts, as well as numerous other elements and roughly processed details, all... 

 Prasnjavi Says:  The memorial school, built at the occasion of the130th anniversary of the First Serbian Insurrection, has got an interesting pre-history. On the eve of the First World War, in 1912, King Peter I visited the historic place of Orasac. Local farmers asked the king then to raise... 

 Jeca011 Says:  Who was Karadjordje?Djordje Petrovic (03.11.1762.-25.07.1817.)Supreme Leader of Serbia and founder of Karadjordjevic dynasty. The Turks called him Karadjordje - Black George. He has been a shepherd in Sumadija, then a livestock merchant. He has spent his youth resisting the... 

 Jeca011 Says:  Built at the occasion of the130th anniversary of the First Serbian Insurrection, has got an interesting pre-history. In 1912, King Peter I visited the historic place of Orasac. Local farmers asked the king then to raise an educational edifice instead of the monument to... 

 Jeca011 Says:  There are three arched marble plaques in the intermediate portion of this monument. The middle one carries the text that says: "IT WAS ON THIS SPOT THAT THE FIRST SERBIAN INSURRECTION WAS RAISED ON FEBRUARY 15, 1804."The left- and right-hand plaques each carry four lines of... 

 Jeca011 Says:  Tower bell was built in 1994. in memory of 190 years of First Serbian Insurrection against Turkish rule. It was built by donations of people from Orasac. 

 Jeca011 Says:  Fountain is located in Maricevica jaruga (Maricevica Gully) not far from the church. It was set up in 1954. at the event of celebrating the150th anniversary of the First Serbian Insurrection against Turkish rule. The fountain is a part of a larger compound comprising a... 

 Jeca011 Says:  The church was raised between 1868 and 1870. The architect who designed the church is not known. It's a small architecturally modest building with simple shapes. The iconostasis of the church is of notable artistic value. It was painted by Steva Todorovic, one of the most...