Mystery of Serbian fortress where birds ate a girl tied to a rock: These beautiful towers hide the greatest secret (PHOTO)

On the steep and inaccessible rock on the right bank of the Danube, rises Golubac fortress with ten towers and two large gate. She lives through centuries her own separate life through myths, stories and legends. The beliefs are intertwined in traditions that this is a place where villas, rusalkas and other mythological creatures gather, like a man with horns and a beard that disappears as soon as the light appears, to the legend of the lost Roman treasure, which was suddenly engulfed in the cave, as well as of all of those who later tried to find it.

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There are no precise data on when the fortress was built, and according to some written documents, it is mentioned for the first time in 1335 as Hungarian military fortress. And the name creation Golubac is tied to the legends.

One says it got its name after the Byzantium princes Jelena, who was imprisoned in in the tower and she quenched her sorrow by raising pigeons, the other legend speaks about a pretty girl named Golubana, who was tied by Turkish pasha by the rock, and after a cruel torture, left her body to the birds because she refused her love. 

There are those who claim that the city got the name after wild pigeons which nested around surrounding cliffs. This beautiful structure is just one detail in that part of Serbia.

When you mention East Serbia to someone without relatives in East Serbia, he immediately thinks about misery, distress and sorrow... There is a reason we are mentioning East Serbia for you to remember those words, because there is magic behind those words.

Reality and legends mix there more than anywhere in Serbia there, and it is hard to see the line between them. 

Foto: Youtube/Jankovic B. / Wikimedia Denis Barthel/Bonzo, Youtube/JORDAN ANDRIĆ

For example, Lazar Canyon is part of the Eastern Kucaj. The significance of Lazar's Canyon is reflected in the relief, hydrography and the living world. It was created by Lazareva river, right tributary of the river Zlotska. This is one of the most rugged canyons in Serbia.

It is 4.5 km long, 350 to 500 meters deep, and with the smallest width of 4 meters. More than 70 caves were discovered in Lazar's Canyon. The most significant are Lazar cave and Vernjikica.

Numerous mythical stories are tied to mount Rtanj.

The winds from the Carpathians, Adriatic sea and northern plains are colliding here. You are feeling the benefits of the pure air, and you truly breathe the health in, it removes the cough and purifies the lungs, and strengthens the organism.

Homolje area is special entity in East Serbia and numerous gorges are there: Gornjacka, Ribarska, Velika and Mala Tisnica, Osanicka river and River Do.

Foto: Wikimedia/Lošmi

And to the southeast Pirot with surrounding area, known after Pirot rugs, made with dedicated work on hand looms in the villages around Stara Mountain.

Red color is predominant on the carpets and ornamentation is always geometric - a stylized bird, flower, dove, or the subject of the immediate surroundings of the weavers.

Izrada ćilima u Pirotu. Foto: Tanjug/AP/Darko Vojinović

Smederevo fortress, as well as fortresses Ram and Golubac, are on the bank of Danube river. One of the most beautiful gorges in Europe is here, Djerdap Gorge, National Park "Djerdap" and Hydroelectric power station of the same name.

Foto: Printskrin/Turistička organizacija opštine Majdanpek

The art of prehistoric inhabitants of Lepenski Vir, which is characterized by stone sculptures of fish-like deities, have impressed the world. Remains of Viminacium, the capital of the Roman province of Upper Moesia and an important Roman military camp, located near Kostolac.

Felix Romuliana, near Zajecar, is one of the most representative and most complex monument of Roman court architecture and is under protection of UNESCO.

Which cities belong to eastern Serbia:

- Pozarevac, city where a famous Pozarevac peace treaty was signed

- Negotin, city of Stevan Mokranjac

- Zajecar, city of Nikola Pasic

- Majdanpek, city of copper and gold

- Kladovo

- Pirot, city of "stingy" people, ironed sausage and homemade hard cheese

- Dimitrovgrad

- Knjazevac - Sokobanja

- Gamzigrad

- Kucevo, city of old singer Djordje Marjanovic

- Petrovac

The photo from the beginning of the text shows beautiful fortress in Golubac.

(Telegraf.co.uk)