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Sokograd

Location: Sokobanja
Tourist organization of Sokobanja
Trg Oslobođenja 2
18230 Sokobanja
http://www.tosokobanja.rs/sr

Sokobanja, Sokograd, you come here as an old man, you leave as a youngster.

Sokograd - a medieval town - fortress, is located 2 km southeast of the centre of Sokobanja on a rock above the river Moravica Canyon. It was built in the late 13th and early 14th centuries on the foundations of a Roman fortress dated 4th – 6th centuries. It is mentioned in the texts from the time of Stevan Nemanja as a town named Sokolac, and later on in the biography of the despot Stefan Lazarević. In the period of Serbian medieval state there lived Serbian aristocrats. It was destroyed in 1413 in the battles for Turkish throne, between the son of Bayezid I, sultan Musa Celebi and the renegade Hamuz bey and hasn’t been reconstructed since.

 

Za Sokograd su vezane mnogobrojne legende: o caricama, hajducima itd. Jedna od njih je i o sokobanjskom Romeu i Juliji, po kome je mesto gde se nalazi Sokograd – Leptirija dobio ime. Naime, gospodar Sokograda je imao lepu kcer Lepteriju u koju se zagledao Župan, sin gospodara i zapovednika Vrmdžanskog grada. Bila je to velika ljubav ali pošto su im ocevi stalno ratovali zbog poseda ta ljubav nije mogla biti krunisana brakom. Onda se dvoje mladih dogovore da Lepterija pobegne kod svog dragana. U dogovoreno vreme Župan sa družinom dodje do zidina Sokograda, Lepterija se iskrade od oca i kroz tajni prolaz podje za Županom. Kad otac primeti da mu nema kceri pošalje poteru i izda naredjenje da se Lepterija pogubi. Potera je sustigla begunce, Leptiriju su pogubili a Župan je od žalosti za svojom voljenom skocio u najdublji vir Moravice i utopio se. I tako se do današnjih dana proplanak (izletište) naziva Lepterija a vir Župan.