From the top of this mountain you can see Skadar Lake, Durmitor, Lovcen
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If a visitor wants to show the beauty of Montenegro - take him to this mountain. Velja gora is exactly the place that is spoken about, and from its peak you can see Skadar Lake, Lovchen, Prokletie, Durmitor, and much more. When you reach the top, there you will forget about the pains in the legs and back, fatigue, rubbed calluses, about all the bad things that you had in your head for the time you climbed this mountain. Here you are at the top - look at all this beauty, name it by its names - here is Skadar Lake, here is Durmitor, do you see Podgorica?
There is a folk legend that says that the Duke Vuksan Bulatovich, while imprisoned in Skadar (Serbian), (or Shkoder, a town in Albania, on the shores of Lake Skadar), saw the top of Velja gora, after which he swore, that there, on top of this mountain, will build a church, if ever it will be released. Thus, according to legend, on the top of Velje gore mountain there was a church of St. Elijah, where to this day many people gather, especially on August 2 - St. Ilya's Day.
The church was built in three stages, the first stage in 1696, the second - it was repaired and completed in 1903 (this year is on the stone before the entrance to the church), the third - in 2000. The church was lit three times, three metropolitans. The first time the church was lit by St. Peter Cetinsky, the second time - Mitrofan Bun, the third time - Amphilochius Radovic. While the church was being built, as they say in the book of Vid Djurich Iz prošlosti Lješnjana i Rovčana, Vuksan Bulatovich and two masters all the time lived in a cave. On top of the mountain there are three caves, the important is the cave Vilina (Vilina pećina), according to legend, there lived a fairy and she was a fairy sister from Lovcen and Durmitor, who often came to visit her, thus three fairies lived in this cave simultaneously.
At the top of the mountain, not far from the church is a magnificent forest, where locals put tables with benches where you can sit and relax, eat something tasty that they brought with them, or cook themselves, local residents also put waste containers and electricity . In this place it is surprisingly clean, nowhere you can see paper, packing from juice, there is no garbage. However, one must take into account that the way to the top of this mountain is difficult, there are no sources of water along the way - water should be taken with oneself, taking into account the individual needs of each separately.
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