The monastery was founded in the 15th century by despot Stefan Lazarevich, the son of the same legendary Serbian king Lazar from the history books, who died in an unequal battle with the Ottomans on the Kosovo field. The monastery is literally a couple of kilometers from the city of Despotovac, you can take a taxi. Manasia, even during the period of Serbia's dependence on the Ottoman Empire, was the center of Serbian culture, was repeatedly destroyed and plundered, but functions as a convent to this day.→