Patriarchal monastery
In pre-socialist times, the town of Peja (known in Serbian as Pec), was a lively regional centre of around 16,000 inhabitants, housing a community of merchants and craftsmen, several hotels and restaurants, and a few larger enterprises. Nowadays, amid the ruins of an industrial sector which has entirely collapsed, one can find economic structures strikingly similar to those of the pre-socialist 1930s: shops, tradesmen, hotels, and a handful of functioning industries, including a saw mill, a bakery, a brewery and a brick factory. The transition from a pre-industrial agricultural economy to an urban manufacturing centre has failed.
Further reading
- ESI report: De-industrialisation and its consequences (March 2002)
- About the Bradt Guide to Kosovo
- Those of you in Kosovo can receive direct same-day door to door deliveries from the Kosovo distributor. E-mail sabri_maloku@hotmail.com.
February 2007
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