Many powerful Yugoslav officials came to this forest house in Ravna Gora: Now it's dilapidated

Photo: RINA

A forest house on Ravna Gora, in the village of Kostunici, municipality of Gornji Milanovac, was built using local stone over half a century ago at the request of peasants from Ravna Gora, and was a place where hunters, gamekeepers and many passers-by found respite and refuge. However, today's state of the once magnificent building does not leave anyone indifferent - it is dilapidated and neglected. The public company in charge, Srbija Sume ("Serbian Forests") decided to give the dilapidated building a new shine and put it in its rightful place.

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"We re planning a complete reconstruction of the facility, works will start in the spring. That complex deserves a new lease on life and it will again be a beautiful place on the historic Serbian mountain Suvobor," the director of Srbija Sume Igor Braunovic told RINA.

The forest house was totally neglected and devastated in the 1990s and earlier, and is still in very bad condition.

It was built in mid-last century, and those who visited included almost all high-ranking officials of the former Yugoslavia, from Mahmut Bakali, Milos Minic to numerous other members of the Presidency and the Government of the former state.

The complex on Ravna Gora includes the Church of St. George, a museum, and a monument to the first guerrilla fighter in occupied Europe, Draza Mihailovic.

Ravna Gora is located on the slopes of Suvobor, and in a month's time, this historically important mountain will be connected to the village of Ba with a paved road.

In that way, it will be possible to reach the Serbian capital via the villages of Ba and Ljig and the Milos Veliki highway in an incomparably shorter amount of time than is the case now - in about an hour at most.

(Telegraf.rs)