Beli most (the white bridge) from the year 1844, is also known as the “bridge of love” (most ljubavi). The story says that the prophets fortold to the pasha (a turkish governor), that his daughter Aisha will suffer a violent death, so not far from the bridge, he built a white palace and locked her up inside. She had only one small window, through which she observed the outside world. Every day, she saw a Serbian shepherd Stojan pushing the sheep across the river, and she fell in love with him. Somehow, she managed to sneak out of the palace and meet Stojan, but the pasha surprised them, took out a gun to kill Stojan… Aisha threw herself in front of him and so, she got killed instead. The legend then says that Stojan took out a knife and slit his own neck. Pasha then ordered that a bridge is to be built there, with an Arabic inscription saying “cursed be the one who separates what love brings together”. The bridge, as well as the inscription are still in the old part of Vranje in the street Devet Jugovica. Ask anybody for the white bridge, and you will be shown the way.
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