ST. SAVA’S CHURCH ON THE HILL AS A GUIDEPOST OF FAITH AND LOVE, AS A DESTINATION FOR PILGRIMAGES AND RELIGIOUS TOURISM IN SERBIA
Keywords:
Saint Sava, Saint Sava church, pilgrimage, religious tourism, Belgrade, SerbiaAbstract
Over the past decade, the tourism market has been developing steadily and an increasing number of people are traveling, has more free time and is more vigorously paying off, and tourism flows have changed and they have a new conception. When it comes to religious travel, millions of travelers go to worship in Christian shrines such as: Fatima, Lurda, Santiago de Campostella, Vatican, Einzidelna, Ayia Sophia, Ostrog etc.
According to the World Association for Religious Travel, around 300 million tourists worldwide are among the subtypes of religious tourists depending on their beliefs and motivation. Religious journey represents human promotion, a form of solidarity and friendship, meeting people, their cultures and religions, learning peace among people, respecting nature and valorizing the natural and cultural property (Маца, 2009; Стаменковић, 2009).
According to the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia in 2018, more than 3.2 million tourists were staying in Serbia, and half of them were foreign tourists. Of the selected tourist destinations, measured by the number of overnight stays, most foreign tourists were from the former Yugoslav republics, China, Turkey, Germany, Romania, Bulgaria and Russia and most visited destinaton was Belgrade. In this paper the St. Sava’s platou will be presented as the destination of religious tourists and the inevitable Hot Spot of tourism of Belgrade and Serbia.
The Saint Sava was the first Serbian polychister, the universal being whose cult is celebrated by Greeks, Russians, Bulgarians and the wider Christian world. The Saint Sava figure is synergy of faith, hope and love, which enlightens, adores, illuminates, transforms, heals, heals and saves nations of this world.
From Ras region were he was born (through the Atos, Thessaloniki, Constantinople, Studenica and Žiča monasteries, Bulgaria, Jerusalem, Romania, Romania, the Milešev Monastery etc.) traveled the First Serbian Archbishop, the spiritual and ideological creator of the Serbian state and the Serbian Orthodox Church, the enlightener, the pilgrim, the diplomat, the builder, the reconciliation, the visionary, the ktitor, the beginner of Serbian legislation, the writer and the cosmopolitan, until he reached Vracar hill.
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