Before Roman riimmergermi into madness, I tell you a bit 'of the Balkans .. So tonight, the Serbs celebrate Orthodox Easter, and the wonderful monastesteri spread out over this great land more 'or less as the Umbria, the ceremony will go ahead from midnight until the morning tomorrow. We hope all goes well, given that the Serbs are a minority, say not much loved in this former region of Serbia and the Albanian Muslim majority, which has declared independence one year. However should spin smoothly because each monastery here and 'guarded night and day by trucks of the KFOR (NATO soldiers in Kosovo). Unbelievable is not it? But very true: many churches and monasteries, a symbol of Serbian roots of this land have been a few years ago, attacked and burned by Albanian groups (which, in turn, a few years earlier had been persecuted by the ethnic cleansing of Milosevic). Only soldiers pototuto protect the frescoes that cover the interior of the imposing medieval monastery of Decani, the most 'important of these holy places (among other things, led by a ganzissimo Father Sava, a former rock band lead by a Serb), and anyway, the bulletproof glass of the cab of the military appear designed by gusts machine gun.
Tonight we do not get more 'ceremonies (why not' frightened by 4-5 hours of running! :-)) For an accident, (fortunately not serious), came to my traveling companion .. and, in reality ', I would like to tell because' well helps to explain what 's the situation here. Well this morning we went to Mitrovica, and that 'the city' in northern Kosovo around where some of the approximately 100,000 Serbs who still live there. In reality 'the city' and 'split half': the southern part of the river Ibar and 'Albanians in the north and the' Serbian. In between, on the bridge, there are (guess?) Soldiers of the KFOR. Us this morning we crossed, passing from the Albanian and Serb. Which means pass from noisy streets with shops in turkish style and a lot of garbage in the streets, streets square, clean and quiet. It means moving from a euphoric atmosphere nervous, scared, in which even the guys do not want to be photographed. The crossing and 'then clearly signposted graphically red flags are left with the Albanian eagle on display in every balcony, window or public building (along with the American flag and Kosovo) and are exposed tricolor Serbs around, sometimes with signs that thunders "Kosovo and 'Serbia." We say that this contrast in order to photograph my friend, (capita..) And is' taking a strong retort. And we say that the bad luck we were happy that it happened just at the "precise" the city '. In fact, once the ambulance took her to the hospital, the fact sheet (thankfully nothing broken) and wrap in an hour and then called a taxi to return. Now the only problem was that the taxi Serbian only up to the river, like all machines on the other side, crossing and 'taboo! It is practically impossible: "Of course you have to cross the bridge alone!" Said the nurse who had just finished putting a kind of plaster to my friend, who obviously could not walk. At the end when crossing the Kosovo police accompanied us nicely. Apart from the cast and of course the hassle, all right at the end for us, though, 'which stories ..
Foto di Alessia Leonello: militare italiano saluta un monaco nel monastero di Decani
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