• The monks translated texts from Ancient Greek, wrote histories, and copied manuscripts (the most famous scriptorium was in Rača, known as the School of Rača...
  • This is a story of the Raca monastery (in Serbian: Manastir Rača). According to tradition, the Raca Monestary is the endowment of the Serbian king Dragutin.
  • Rača Monastery suffered several times, mostly during the fall of the Despotovina (1459) and during the first great migration of Serbs (1690).
  • A two-kilometer-long marked hiking trail leads from the Rača Monastery to the Ladjevac spring and the remains of the Rača Transcription School.
  • 7 kilometers (4.3496 miles) south of Bajina Basta is the Raca Monastery. It is a Serbian orthodox monastery located just next to the Raca river.
  • Only 16 kilometers from the hotel complex on Tara, hidden in the valley of a mountain stream which flows into Drina, a monastery Rača is situated.
  • I want to mention what you can visit near the monastery. At the monastery, cross the bridge over the river Raca and follow the path going upstream.
  • The present day Raca Monastery church, dedicated to the Ascension of Jesus Christ, was reconstructed in 1795 having Saint Achilles’ church in Arilje as a model.